Official Documents
Article, Blog Post, Official Document
The macroeconomic payoff from investment in universal economic and social human rights
Evidence is accumulating that the GDP and even tax revenue multipliers of increased public investment in the material sufficiency, agency and dignity of people underpinned by human rights are often strongly positive over 5 to 10 years. The budgeting and borrowing practices of governments and international financial institutions need to catch up and treat investment in social infrastructure, such as social protection systems, more like that in physical infrastructure, i.e., scored dynamically and partially amortized over a medium to long term budgetary window.
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Executive Order requiring environmental reviews of international trade agreements
Presidential Executive Order requiring environmental reviews of international trade agreements, which I co-coordinated during my tenure in the US White House.
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1991 legislation to restrict NAFTA trade negotiating authority
US Senate letter seeking additional cosponsorship of legislation I drafted in 1991 to exclude labor rights, environmental protection, rule of origin, adjustment assistance and dispute settlement issues from NAFTA fast track trade (no amendment) negotiating authority sought by the Bush Administration. Ultimately endorsed by a majority of the Democratic Caucus and nearly a third of the Senate but ignored by the Administration.