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Home > Programs > Selected Previous Programs > Justice and the World Economy |
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Justice and the World Economy
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Rony Brauman,
Christian Barry
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04/12/04
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Brauman insists that the goals of peace processes should not be mingled with the goals of humanitarian aid.
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Keith Slack,
Mary-Lea Cox
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04/28/03
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Carnegie Fellow Keith Slack discusses Iraq using its oil wealth to sustain prosperity and democracy. But there are reasons to proceed with caution: Does cultivation of natural resources create wealth for the many or for the few? If for the few, how does this affect a nation’s prospects for political stability?
Roundtable: Dealing Justly with Debt
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Arturo C. Porzecanski
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09/15/03
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Policy-makers in Washington and other capitals of G-7 countries have been flogging the idea that the functioning of the world’s financial markets must be improved by making it easier for insolvent governments to obtain debt relief.
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Thomas I. Palley
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09/15/03
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Regarding the problem of sovereign borrower insolvency, two factors must be considered in this discussion: The impact on economic efficiency, in particular the price of credit for developing countries, and a regard for considerations of justice and procedural fairness.
If global economic justice is to be achieved, debt crises must be assessed within the broader context of the international financial system. But this system has fostered instability and recurrent financial crises that have severely harmed poor countries and their people.
The collapse in Argentina and the enormous cost paid by so many people in that country—as well as by the creditors of Argentina—from the massive financial and economic dislocation and disruption was not inevitable.
Articles, Papers, and Reports
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Uché U. Ewelukwa
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08/02/05
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What accounts for the underutilization of the WTO dispute settlement process by states in Africa? What structural factors currently inhibit the ability of states in Africa to use the DSM to their advantage? What can African states learn from the experience of the developing countries that have used the system?
Much attention is paid to prosecutions implemented by countries transitioning to democracy--but little to their efforts toward reparations. Yet from the standpoint of the victims, reparations programs are the most visible efforts of a state to remedy the harms they have suffered.
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Iris Marion Young
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03/23/04
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Who should take responsibility for the global labor injustices that are manifested in the existence of sweatshops in the apparel industry? And, what is the best means for determining the nature and scope of such responsibility?
The first MDG and its public celebration among the affluent hides the largest (though not the gravest) crime against humanity ever committed, argues Thomas Pogge in this paper presented at the Carnegie Council in November 2003.
Over a billion people currently lack access to safe water and other basic services. Should these services be privatized? Will the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) affect the ability of governments to pursue social and developmental objectives.
The conference considers possibilities of additional sources of finance either for disposition through multilateral agencies or bilateral aid for global priorities, or as additional own resources for developing countries.
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Terry Collingsworth
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02/06/03
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Collingsworth describes the problems of human rights enforcement with respect to corporations conducting business abroad through a detailed description of the operations of the Unocal oil company. (Report on a February 2003 Global Social Justice Seminar)
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Jan Vandemoortele
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12/09/02
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Paper presented at the workshop on Social Policy Principles and The Social Development Agenda, Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, December 3-5, 1999
How many poor people are there in the world? Are their numbers increasing or decreasing? Professor Sanjay Reddy argues that the answers we give to these apparently simple questions can be of great practical significance. (Report on a December 2002 Global Justice Seminar)
How can multilateral economic institutions tackle the crisis of effectiveness and the crisis of legitimacy they face today? (Report on a 2002 Global Social Justice Seminar)
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George Kell,
John Ruggie
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02/25/00
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Globalization has increasingly disconnected one single element—networks of production and finance—from an overall system of institutional relations. The resulting disequillibria in the world political economy will persist until the economic sphere rejoins frameworks of shared values and institutionalized practices.
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