- A Fair Deal for the World
Publsihed at : The New York Review of Books. VOl. 49, number 9, may 23,2002
The author of Globalization and Its Discontents makes a review of the book "On Globalization" by George Soros.
- Agreements between the WTO and the IMF and the World Bank
Because of the increasing linkages between the various aspects of economic policymaking that fall within the respective mandates of the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, ...
- Appeal to Minister of Finance Concerning the Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the Group of Seven Nations on February 9th
The Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the Group of Seven Nations will be held in Tokyo on February 9th. The “Poverty and Development Unit of the 2008 Japan G8 NGO Forum,” a network of Japanese NGOs, calls on the Minister of Finance ...
- Background Paper of the Task Force on Open and Rule-Based Trading System
The Background Paper privides a preliminary overview of existing knowledge and scopes out the questions addressed by the Task Force on Open and Rule-Based Trading System. It examines six areas of particular interest and/or concern to developing countries: ...
- Barack Obama's historic victory
Richard Falk's article analizing the challenges that Barack Obama will face during his term.
- Cereal offenders? G8 leaders on biofuel/hunger charges
How the G8 has contributed to the global food crisis, and what they can do to stop it.
- Civil Society Consultation on the Work of the President of the UN General Assembly's Comission of Experts on Reforms Of the International Monetary and Financial System
NGLS document that compiles in one report the civil society expertise and insights in order to inform the preparations of the President's Comission on Financial Reforms.
- Commission on Global Governance
It focuses on global governance. It concludes by urging the international community to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations by beginning a determined process of rethinking and reform.
- Currency Transaction Tax, The. A bold idea for financing development
Global problems require bold solutions and the Currency Transaction Tax (CTT) is one such innovative idea. It proposes a small levy on foreign exchange transactions, using the money raised to finance development projects for the global public good.
- Declaration from Social Movements / NGOs / CSOs Parallel Forum to the World Food Summit on Food Security
We, 642 persons coming from 93 countries and representing 450 organisations of peasant and family farmers, small scale fisher folk, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, youth, women, the urban people, agricultural workers, local and international NGOs, and ot ...
- Economía de guerra
Federico Mayor Zaragoza article, published in El País. He analizes the international system and its economic framework.
- En tiempos de crisis soluciones para la gente
In times of crisis, global solutions are required in order to mitigate the effects that it has over the people.
- Ensuring that international economic and social institutions become integrated with and accountable to the UN
In spite of the enormeous power which the Bank, the IMF and the WTO wield around the world they are not answerable to anybody except their shareholders. The major sharehoders are the governments of the seven richest industrialised countries. This lack of i ...
- Existing System and Missing Institutions, The
In : Nayyar, D. (ed.) (2002) Governing Globalization: Issues and Institutions. Chapter 14.
- From DOHA to Cancun
This working paper gives an overview of the results of the Fourth Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meetin in Doha, Qatar, held from 9 to 14 November 2001. It looks at the political context of the ministerial meeting, identifies the key actors and stake ...
- Global democratic governance and the reform of International Institutions
Paper centered on the Reform of the International Institutions, UN, IFI's and WTO.
- Globalisation and Its Discontents
Review of this powerful, unsettling book which gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.
When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touc ...
- Globalisation, democracy and trade policy
Globalisation is a fact of life and it becomes a challenge for all societies. This paper focuses on three main questions: it discusses the challenge of globalisation for democracy, it analyses the challenges of globalisation and the demand for a "democrati ...
- Globalism's Discontents
Few subjects have polarized people throughout the world as much as globalization. Some see it as the way of the future, bringing unprecedented prosperity to everyone, everywhere. Others, symbolized by the Seattle protestors of December 1999, fault globaliz ...
- Globalization and the logic of international collective action : Re-examining the Bretton Woods Institutions
In : Nayyar, D. (ed.) (2002) Governing Globalization: Issues and Institutions. Chapter 9.
The author explore the role of the Bretton Wood Institutions from the perspective of global public goods and externalities.
- Governing Globalization : Issues and Institutions
The forces of globalization are causing rapid changes in trade and financial flows, and the movement of people across the world has become a major issue in need of urgent action. National economies have become closely interrelated, particularly through the ...
- Helsinki process on global governance
This paper is in response to a request to provide ideas, comments and suggestions on the Helsinki process on Global Governance and how it should proceed. I was involved in preliminary discussions on the Helsinki Process during my visit to Helsinki in May 2 ...
- Issue is Global Governance - Not Global Free trade, The
Kimon Valaskakis article about the global governance and the FTAA.
- It's democracy, stupid
None of the problems thrown-up by globalisation: the strong getting stronger and exploiting the weak who grow weaker; an unpredictable and turbulent global economy, and an increasingly life threatening environmental issues - can be effectively tackled with ...
- Letter to Pascal Lamy 2007
Our World is Not For Sale and other civil society organisations have sent a letter to Pascal Lamy asking him to accept the failure of the Doha Round, mainly after the G4 meeting in Postdam.
- New capitalism?
Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
- Nou capitalisme?
Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
- Other axis of evil, The
We need to be aware that neo-liberal globalisation is attacking the social order on three fronts. The economic front is the most important since it affects all humanity. It is presided over by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World T ...
- Proposal to reform the system of international institutions. Future scenarios
Paper drafted by the Ubuntu forum ad hoc secretariat and John Foster on the occasion of the Seminar on future scenarios for the reform of the System of International Institutions which took place in Barcelona on 12 and 13 March 2004, under the framework of ...
- Report of the Commission of experts of the President of the United Nations General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System
Report elaborated by the Commissions of experts of the President of the General Assembly (Miguel d'Escotto)that includes the main recommendations to apply in order to reform the financial en economical system
- Summary of proposals to Reform the System of International Institutions
The aim of this paper, which gathers some of the most important proposals made to reform the system of international isntitutions, is to form a starting point for reflection on these issues.
- Towards a new International Financial Architecture
Statement submitted by the European Network on Finance and Development, presenting some proposals to disminish the impact of the financial crises.
- Transforming the world in crisis. Prague NGO Declaration
We, participants of the conference The World in Crisi: Economies and Policies for Global Trasnformation have discussed for three days in Prague the root causes, impacts and responses to the financial crises, economic meltdown, climate change, mismanagement ...
- Treaty on Global Currency Transactions Tax : A Draft
By this Treaty, it is established a Currency Transaction Tax Organisation called "CTTO". It is aimed to curb financial instabilities in the global economy, to generate revenues to be utilised for the global common good, to monitor the application of a glob ...
- Un nouveau capitalisme?
Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
- Urgent: refondations des Nations Unies
Il faut refonder des Nations Unies qui permettront, comme cela a été établi en 1945, de tenir en compte des générations futures.
- Urgent: Refounding of the United Nations
As in 1945, it is necessary to refound the United Nations for the sake of our future generations.
- Urgente: refundación de las Naciones Unidas
Es preciso refundar unas Naciones Unidas que permitan, como establecieron en 1945, tener en cuenta a las generaciones venideras.
- What happened at the G20? Initial Analysis of the London Summit
G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity. Oxfam's research shows rising human impacts in the shape of job losses, falling remittan ...
- Winners and Losers: Impact of the Doha Round on Developing Countries
Winners and Losers: Impact of the Doha Round on Developing Countries presents a new, path breaking model of global trade as a tool to analyze the potential impacts of the negotiations and underlying economic interests of the WTO’s diverse members. This ne ...
- World Democratic Governance
Almost 20 years after the "Washington Consensus", and nearly 10 years after the fall of the "Berlin Wall", the system of international instituttions has become polarised, split into two branches. On the one hand there is UN, on the other are the economic, ...
- ¿Nuevo capitalismo?
Article written by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, José Saramago, Roberto Savio, Francisco Altemir, Jose Vidal-Beneyto y Mario Soares about the financial crisis and the solutions that have been presented.
