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India Research-Policy Dialogue on Global Economic Governance & Trade, New Delhi
06/05/2008
On April 29, GEG’s Global Trade Governance Project cohosted a research–policy dialogue with the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva and the Emerging Dynamic Global Economies Network. The conference is one of several dialogues among research and policy officials planned for the coming year in key developing countries, to aid in the identification of their strategic interests in the current and upcoming debates on governance in the multilateral trading system. Information about and outputs from the meeting are available here.

A Conversation with the Tanzanian Health Minister
02/05/2008
On Friday 9 May, at 2:00 pm, the Hon. Professor David Mwakyusa, Minister of Health and Social Welfare in Tanzania since 2006, will visit the Global Economic Governance Programme to discuss his country's interactions with donors, and the challenges of crafting a national health plan amid so many donor demands. There will be no lecture or prepared remarks; this is your opportunity to ask the Minister about the challenges in addressing Tanzanian health priorities.

Speaker: The Hon. Professor David Mwakyusa, Minister of Health and Social Welfare in Tanzania
Title: The challenge of crafting a National Health Plan amid so much international aid
Date: Friday 9 May
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Swire Seminar Room, 12 Merton Street, University College

Public Forum: Setting a Developing Country Agenda for Global Health
25/04/2008
On 13 May, GEG will host a public forum where several prominent developing country ministers will reflect on priorities for governance reform in global health. The ministers will discuss the priorities emerging a High-Level Working Group on 'Setting a Developing Country Agenda for Global Health.' There will be ample opportunity for audience questions, and a chance to meet some of the ministers in a reception which follows.

This Working Group, convened by Oxford's Global Economic Governance Programme, brings together health ministers from developing countries, joined by finance ministers and ex-heads of state, to set an agenda for governance reform in global health. The Working Group participants, among the most accomplished ministers from around the world, have been selected based on their success, advocacy, and experience in the pursuit of developing country priorities.

The Working Group is the first which excludes donors and their representatives, and has geared discussion toward the fundamental changes in health governance demanded by developing country officials. This public forum comes at the conclusion of the Working Group meeting.

Title: Public Forum: Setting a Developing Country Agenda for Global Health
Date: Tuesday 13 May 2008
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Oxford OX1 3UQ (for a map of the location, click here).

If you would like to attend this event, please RSVP to geg@univ.ox.ac.uk.

Confirmed participants: (Please note that not all will be participating in the forum due to travel schedules.)

Santiago Alcazar, Brazil (International Health Advisor, Ministry of Health)
Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, Ghana (Minister of Finance and Economic Planning)
Eyitayo Lambo, Nigeria (Former Minister of Health)
Stephen Mallinga, Uganda (Minister of Health)
Mahesh Maskey, Nepal (Chair, Health Policy Advisory Group, Ministry of Health)
David Mwakyusa, Tanzania (Minister of Health and Social Welfare)
Charity Ngilu, Kenya (Minister of Water and Irrigation; Former Minister of Health)
Alfredo Palacio, Ecuador (Former President; Former Minister of Health)
Srinath Reddy, India (President, Public Health Foundation of India)
Ismail Sallam, Egypt (Former Minister of Health)
Francisco Songane, Mozambique (Former Minister of Health)
Mongkol Na Songkhal, Thailand (Former Minister of Health)
Siti Fadilah Supari, Indonesia (Minister of Health)

Brazilian Foreign Minister to give Special Address as part of Geneva Lectures on Global Economic Governance
25/04/2008
The Brazilian Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim, will give a Special Address on the future and governance of the multilateral trading system in Geneva as part of the Geneva Lectures on Global Economic Governance, jointly hosted by GEG and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva. The lecture will be held at the Graduate Institute in Geneva at 6.30pm at a date in late April/May (to be confirmed). Further information will be posted when available.

GEG To Host Launch of Global Monitoring Report 2008
07/04/2008
On 21 April, GEG will hold a Special Session to launch the Global Monitoring Report 2008: MDGs and the Environment. The Report, coming at the halfway point in the effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, focuses on the link between environment and development.

The Report warns that, if the status quo persists, most developing countries will fall short of meeting the MDGs. Though much of the world is set to halve extreme poverty by then, the goals of reducing child and maternal mortality are unlikely to be met, with serious shortfalls also likely in the primary school completion, nutrition, and sanitation goals. To sustain growth in developing countries, donors and policymakers in developing countries must anticipate long term pressures on the global commons, but also support measures to cushion the impact of food and oil price shocks as well as financial market turmoil on poor people in the short term. To get back on track to meet the MDGs, the report proposes a 6-point agenda for inclusive and sustainable development.

The Report will be presented by Zia Qureshi, currently Senior Adviser in the Office of the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, and Kirk Hamilton, Team Leader, Policy and Economics, Environment Department of The World Bank.

Speaker: Zia Qureshi (Senior Adviser in the Office of the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank) and Kirk Hamilton (Team Leader, Policy and Economics, Environment Department of The World Bank)
Event: Launch of the Global Monitoring Report 2008
Date: 21 April 2008
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Swire Seminar Room, 12 Merton Street, University College, Oxford Please note: Lunch will not be provided; you are invited to bring your own lunch.

GEG Director Publishes Paper on IMF/World Bank Reform.
04/04/2008
Over 300 international leaders, policymakers, government advisers and experts will come together to debate the theme of "an inclusive globalisation: promoting prosperity for all" at the Progressive Governance conference in London on Friday 4 April.

In the run up to the event, Policy Network has commissioned a series of papers from leading academics and experts across the main themes of the conference - climate change, reform of the global institutions, and trade, poverty and development.

Ngaire Woods' paper in this series (available here) focuses on the necessary reforms to the institutions themselves, saying that the IMF and World Bank must globalise their governance and move from a stance of intervention to cooperation to meet the challenges of the global age. "In the contemporary global economy there is a serious risk that the established powers will cling to their well-crafted but out-of-date institutions," she says. "If they do so, they will diminish the possibilities not just for collective action but for a deeper form of global cooperation and the forging of common purposes among governments."

Pascal Lamy gives Special Address for Geneva Lectures on Global Economic Governance
03/04/2008
On Wednesday, 6 February 2008, at 6:30pm, Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the WTO, delivered a Special Address as part of the Geneva Lectures on Global Economic Governance, jointly sponsored by GEG and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. The topic of Lamy's Special Address was '60 Years of the Multilateral Trading System: A Few Lessons.'

The following literature and media related to the event is now available:

Bangladesh Amb to WTO delivered a Geneva Lecture on Global Economic Governance
31/03/2008
On Tuesday, January 29 2008, 6.30pm, H. E. Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya, Ambassador & Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Offices, WTO and Other International Organizations in Geneva and Vienna, delivered a Geneva Lecture on Global Economic Governance on 'Creeping Trade and Phantom Aid: LDCs in the Global Context and Priorities for Reform of Global Governance'.

The following literature and media related to the event is now available:

Policy Dialogue on Global Economic Governance and Trade, Beijing, November 2007
31/03/2008
In November 2007, GEG collaborated with the Development Research Centre of the State Council and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) to organize a policy dialogue on global economic governance and trade. For the agenda of that meeting, click here. For a summary of the meeting and list of participants, click here. To see the Meetint Report in Chinese, click here.

Global Trade Governance Project Director Participates in 'WTO Forum', the WTO's Online Video Debate Series
26/03/2008
On October 5, Carolyn Deere, Director of the Global Trade Governance Project at GEG, and Rosalea Hamilton, Founder of Jamaica's Institute of Law & Economics, discussed the theme 'Making Trade Work for Development: What Can WTO Members do to Ensure the Global Trading System Delivers More for Developing Countries?'. The moderator was WTO spokesperson Keith Rockwell. Click here to access the video.

GEG Participation at WTO Public Forum 2007
26/03/2008
On October 4, the Global Trade Governance Project co-hosted a roundtable with the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI) at the WTO's Public Forum 2007 ('How Can the WTO Help Harness Globalization?') in Geneva. The roundtable opened the 'Governance' theme of the Public Forum in the WTO's main Conference Room. The topic of the session was: 'A Governance Audit of the WTO: Roundtable Discussion on Making Global Trade work for Development'. The following literature and media related to the event is now available:

The GEG session was one of several events on developing countries and the governance of trade. Dr. Deere and Mayur Patel each also presented in a two-part panel event co-organized by the South Centre and the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS). The South Centre's event reporting service, the South FACE, covered the events. The South Centre reports can be found here Dr. Deere also presented a talk on fisheries, trade and sustainable development at a session entitled 'Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Trade: New Instruments to Promote Sustainable Development Through Trade Agreements', hosted by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.

Kamal Nath Launches Trade Governance Project at Oxford; Calls for a Balanced, Just, Development-oriented WTO
26/03/2008
On May 3, 2007, Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce and Industry of India, launched the new Global Trade Governance Project at the University of Oxford. The following literature and media related to the event is now available:

Launch of the Geneva Lectures on Global Economic Governance
26/03/2008
On October 3 the Geneva Lectures on Global Economic Governance were launched. Dr Diana Tussie (Director, Latin American Trade Network and Director, Department of International Relations, Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Argentina) presented on 'The WTO and Development: The Challenges of Trust and Empowerment in Governing Global Trade'. Opening remarks were made by Mrs. Lakshmi Puri, Acting Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD. The series is a joint initiative of the Graduate Institute of International Studies and Oxford's Global Economic Governance Programme on 'Governance and the World Trading System'. The following literature and media related to the event is now available:

Building Coalitions and Consensus in the WTO
06/02/2008
Mayur Patel, Project Associate with the Global Trade Governance Project published the following article on 'Building Coalitions and Consensus in the WTO' in the August 2007 edition of Bridges Monthly Review (ICTSD), 21-22. Forthcoming translations of this article will be available in Russian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Development Implications of Economic Partnership Agreements for Africa
06/02/2008
Mayur Patel, Project Associate with the Global Trade Governance Project recently published the following policy brief on 'Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and African Countries: The Development Implications for Ghana'. It is published by Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalisation Initiative, an NGO founded by Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland).

GEG Annual Lecture: H.E. Dr Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Finance Minister of Indonesia
30/01/2008
On 15 January, H.E. Dr Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the Finance Minister of Indonesia, gave the 2008 GEG Annual Lecture, on the subject “Challenges of Globalisation for Indonesia”.

Dr. Sri Mulyani Indrawati is the Minister of Finance of Indonesia. In 2006, Dr. Mulyani was honoured as the Best Finance Minister in Asia by the Emerging Market Forum, and was given the title “Finance Minister of the Year” by the magazine Euromoney. She is the Governor for Indonesia in the Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, and the World Bank. She was Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund for the South East Asia group constituency from 2002 to 2004, and Minister of State for National Development Planning and Chairperson of the National Development Planning Agency from 2004 to 2005. The following literature and media related to the event is now available:

China and Globalization
12/12/2007
On 7 June 2007, Liu Mingkang, the Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, gave a special address for the Global Economic Governance Programme. The powerpoint slides from his presentation are now available here.

GEG Newsletter
30/10/2007
The GEG has released a newsletter (October 2007) reviewing and previewing related events, research and publications.

Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship Programme
30/10/2007
Oxford and Princeton are proud to announce a new Global Leaders Fellowship Programme, at Oxford and Princeton, which includes post-doctoral fellowships in world politics and political economy for holders of a doctorate who are nationals of a developing country. Six fellowships, with appropriate stipends sufficient to cover full living costs, will be awarded in each of the next five years, beginning in September 2008, for a year's study at Oxford followed by a year at Princeton. For further details, please see here.

Mali: Patterns and Limits of Donor-driven Ownership
24/09/2007
Isaline Bergamaschi, GEG Visiting Researcher 2006-7, has had her GEG Working Paper on 'Mali: Patterns and Limits of Donor-driven Ownership' (WP 2007/31) referenced by the The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) of the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

Ngaire Woods Nominated for Short-list of BISA Book Prize
24/09/2007
Ngaire Woods, Director of the GEG, was recently nominated for the short-list of the International Political Economy Group (IPEG) Book Prize 2007 of the British International Studies Association (BISA). The nomination was for The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank and Their Borrowers (Cornell University Press).

Ownership at the Community Level: Lessons from Kenya
24/09/2007
Sammy Gitau from the University of Manchester recently presented at the GEG for the Global Health Governance Project. He spoke on 'Ownership at the Community Level: Lessons from Kenya'. Literature and media are available here.

Mainstreaming Nutrition as a Social Welfare
24/09/2007
Devi Sridhar, Director of the Global Health Project, recently published the following article on 'Mainstreaming Nutrition as a Social Welfare' in the UN Chronicle Online Edition.

Sadako Ogata Speech Available
24/09/2007
On Friday 22 June, Sadako Ogata, President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency spoke at the GEG on 'New Directions for Japan's Foreign Aid'.

China and Globalization
24/09/2007
Liu Mingkang, Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, spoke at a GEG hosted event at the Department of Politics and International Relations on June 7, 2007. The event was featured in an article by Steve Schifferes for BBC News on 'The Promise and Perils of Globalisation', June 11, 2007.

Oxford Energy Task Force Releases Report 'Energy, Politics and Poverty'
10/09/2007
The Oxford High-Level Task Force on UK Energy Security, Climate Change and Development Assistance has released its report 'Energy, Politics and Poverty'. Media coverage related to the report included the following:

New Directions in Development Assistance Conference
10/09/2007
On June 11-12, a joint Oxford University/Cornell University conference on 'New Directions in Development Assistance' was held at Rhodes House in Oxford. The following literature related to the conference is now available:

GEG Working Paper Quoted
04/06/2007
A GEG Working Paper by Paolo de Renzio and Joseph Hanlon on Contested Sovereignty in Mozambique: The Dilemmas of Aid Dependence (WP 2007/25) was recently quoted in Development and Cooperation, a German magazine. For details, see here.

Banking Sector Opening: Policy Questions and Lessons for Developing Countries
23/02/2007
GEG Research Associate Leonardo Martinez-Diaz has published the following policy brief outlining the benefits and risks of banking liberalisation in developing countries. It is published by the Brookings Institution here.

Development, Democracy and the NGO Sector
15/02/2007
Sabeel Rahman, GEG Project Associate, has published a new article, 'Development, Democracy and the NGO Sector: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh', Journal of Developing Societies, 22, 4 (2006): 451-473.

Power Shift: Do We Need Better Global Economic Institutions?
30/01/2007
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) have published a pamphlet by GEG Director Ngaire Woods (with a foreword by Rt Hon Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development). It can be downloaded from here.

War By Other Means
28/01/2007
BBC World Service
The Monday Documentary
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy and it depends on rules decided in tough negotiations behind closed doors. So what really goes on in the international trade talks? In the first of two programmes, GEG Director Ngaire Woods investigates. To listen to both broadcasts see here.


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