Worldwide, social networks play an important role in the lives of individuals, influencing everything from the knowledge people acquire to the goods and services they utilize. However, not everyone experiences equal opportunity to gain from social connections. In traditional patriarchal societies, women may have limited ability to access and benefit from existing networks due to […]
Trade and investment treaties are partially standing in the way of emerging market and developing country efforts to create as much fiscal space possible in order to fight the COVID-19 virus, protect the vulnerable, and put together pathways for a sustainable economic recovery. This is the main finding coming out of a new GDP Center report […]
There is a renewed global push to mobilize resources to meet glaring global infrastructure gaps, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement commitments and generally improve standards of living. A core component of such resource mobilization will be the generation of domestic resources through taxation. Whereas tariffs form a miniscule share of public revenue […]
GCI fellow Alvin Camba recently had his article published in Development and Change. Titled “The Sino‐centric Capital Export Regime: State‐backed and Flexible Capital in the Philippines,” the article argues that China’s current crisis of overaccumulation has led to a so‐called Sino‐centric capital export regime, which sends out two types of capital — state-backed and flexible […]
Trade Agreements and Public Health: A Primer for Health Policy Makers, Researchers and Advocates by Deborah Gleeson and Ronald Labonté is the first easily accessible, plain language text on international trade agreements and public health. The book spans the technical and political dimensions of trade and health, providing an outline of the different issues and […]
Prudential Financial Regulators, Central Banks and Regulatory Authorities have increasingly come to recognize that they have a role to play in dealing with climate change, including climate disasters such as storms, tornadoes and tsunamis. Such events impact the economy by destroying physical assets, income opportunities, credit worthiness and the fiscal base. In turn, the financial […]
Global health partnerships have been growing in popularity, with many of these partnerships led by biopharmaceutical companies focusing on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Along the way, these partnerships have faced both internal and external challenges, from lack of clarity of partner’s roles and responsibilities to a lack of harmonization. A journal article in Public Health by […]
In the fall of 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a means to mobilize resources, strengthen connectivity links, leverage potential growth drivers and connect markets with a view to integrating more countries and regions into economic globalization and achieving shared prosperity through mutually beneficial cooperation. Aligning the BRI […]
Intellectual property (IP) provisions in free trade agreements (FTAs) ensure protection for the creation or invention of artistic works and goods, the creation or invention of which sometimes required, as in the case of medicines, high sunk cost in the form of investment in research and development. However, this protection creates a monopoly market for […]
Managers are increasingly facing shareholder pressure to disclose and manage their climate change risks. The reason for this surge in climate-related shareholder activism is the growing recognition of increased costs and risks associated with climate change as well as the fact that, in many countries, the disclosure of nonfinancial information is not mandated by law. […]