Papers
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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.
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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.
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Financer une reprise centrée sur l’humain pour sortir de la crise du COVID-19 et une action décisive pour le climat à l’échelle mondiale
ILO
Ce document de travail illustre concrètement la manière dont l'architecture financière internationale existante pourrait être activée
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The ILO and the future of work: The politics of global labour policy
Global Social Policy, Sage Journals
Journal article by an independent scholar describing the provenance and evolution of the “human-centered agenda for the future of work” that was articulated by the ILO’s Global Commission, on which I served.
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Level-Up Economics: Beyond the Wealth of Nations
Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
Reconstituting capitalism and revitalizing the liberal international order will require revisiting first principles of Western political economy, rebalancing the emphasis it places on broad living standards as opposed to national income. The 2020 US presidential campaign has begun to do just that.
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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.
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Advancing Human-Centered Economic Progress in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
G20 Insights
This paper proposes a three-part programme to reorient the growth models of G20 economies by designing social inclusion deliberately into their innovation ecosystems and economic policies.
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Advancing Human-Centered Economic Progress in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Leadership Agenda for G20 Governments
Co-authored policy brief contributed to G20-related Think20 process involving think tanks from around the world. With Nicholas Davis.
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Green Growth and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
An issue paper on poverty reduction and environmental sustainability prepared for a UN High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons.
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Beyond Business as Usual: G20 Leaders and Post-Crisis Reconstitution of the International Economic Order
Center for American Progress (CAP)
This 2009 policy brief proposes an agenda for deep reform of international economic governance, taking at face value the commitments expressed by G20 leaders during the Great Financial Crisis to render economic growth more inclusive, sustainable and robust.