Global Governance
Blog Post, Paper
Progressing Beyond GDP: Towards a Multidimensional Livings Standards Index and Integrated Headline Measure of Gross National Sustainable Development
How best to supplant or “dethrone” GDP alone as the paramount measure of national economic performance and international development standing? A new paper by a group of UN-affiliated economists, of which I am lead author, makes a concrete suggestion regarding this ultimate, high-ambition purpose of "Beyond GDP" reform. It comes as intergovernmental negotiations are due to begin later in the year on this complex topic following the issuance of a report by a High-Level Expert Group.
Blog Post
Rebalancing the world economy: Right idea, wrong approach
There is a more effective and less risky way. Europe's leadership could be crucial. Can cooler heads prevail?
Chapter
Human-Centred International Economic Policy: Institutionalizing Inclusion, Sustainability and Resilience in International Economic Governance and Cooperation (Chapter 6)
Palgrave Macmillan, Intl Labour Organization (ILO)
This book chapter presents a Bretton-Woods-like set of deep reforms of the international economic architecture, adapting the IMF, multilateral development banks, and WTO and other trade-related institutions to the challenges of the 21st century based on a post-neoliberal "Roosevelt Consensus" model of growth and development.
Paper
Financing Human-Centred COVID-19 Recovery and Decisive Climate Action Worldwide: International Cooperation’s 21st Century Moment of Truth
International Labour Organization (ILO)
This ILO Working Paper outlines how the existing capital and authorities of international financial institutions could be deployed to triple international development and climate finance for low-income and most middle-income countries for the next seven years, equivalent to twice the Marshall Plan's assistance to Europe following WWII.
Article
Globalization Needs an Upgraded Operating System
Project Syndicate
New technologies, climate change, rising social tensions, and geopolitical fragmentation require ambitious collective effort.
Paper
Globalization 4.0: Shaping a New Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
World Economic Forum (WEF)
Spotlights existing initiatives and proposals consistent with 8 proposed redesign parameters to modernize global architecture and policy.
Video
Davos 2019 – Globalization: Retreat or Reinvention?
World Economic Forum (WEF), Youtube
Politico session including Samans, Frank Appel, Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Post DHL, Germany, and Sabine Keller-Busse, Group Chief Operating Officer, UBS, Switzerland.
James T. Riady, Founder and Honorary Chairman, Siloam Hospitals Group, Lippo Group, Indonesia
Video
Opening of the Inaugural Sustainable Development Impact Summit
WEF, Youtube
Opening speech of the inaugural Sustainable Development Impact Summit on the need for expansion of and innovation in international cooperation in order to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris climate agreement, New York, 2017.
Video
Launch of comprehensive set of proposals for reform of the international trade and investment system — E15 Initiative
Peterson Institute for International Economics event launching and discussing the recommendations of a global process of 18 multistakeholder working groups involving over 300 experts.
Video
Press conference launching E15 Initiative international trade and investment reform recommendations, Davos 2016
With Michael Froman, US Trade Representative; Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Trade, Canada; Nils Smedegaard Andersen, Group Chief Executive Officer, A.P. Møller-Maersk; Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Chief Executive, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD); Amina Mohamed, Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Kenya.