GEG and the Duke University Center for International Studies have published the results of the first major business survey about corporate financial reporting and the financial reporting standards developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
Assessing the IASB by Tim Büthe (Duke) and Walter Mattli (Oxford) reports key findings from the survey, conducted among financial executives—mostly CFOs and chief accounting officers—of companies listed on the major stock exchanges of the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. 749 of these corporate finance experts, representing firms from all industries, participated in the business survey, which is part of a larger study, the International Standards Project, jointly directed by Büthe and Mattli at Duke and Oxford Universities.
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Ngaire Woods addresses the urgent but difficult task of reforming the world’s international financial institutions in a report for the Progressive Governance Conference hosted by Gordon Browne in April 2008.
In the report, she writes that global cooperation among governments is urgently needed to manage the current financial crisis. In principle, the IMF and World Bank are ideally placed to play a key role. But in practice, neither institution is adequately equipped to ensure cooperation to deal with the current crisis. Put simply, neither institution has a governance structure which today commands the confidence of emerging economic powers whose cooperation is vital if global collective action is to resolve the financial crisis.
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GEG Senior Researcher Devi Sridhar and Research Associate Rajaie Batniji have published a study in the Lancet examining the financing of global health.
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