Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, delivered a lecture in London in February on the topic New Multilateralism for the Twenty-first Century. This lecture is important for its messages concerning the need for new multilateral approaches to the challenges…
The University of Oxford published a report in October Now for the Long Term that presents the recommendations of The Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations. This Commission, comprised of nineteen distinguished intellectuals, eminent academics, and world thought-leaders in economics…
The Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations is a vital interface between global policies in the economic and environmental spheres and national action. The Department works in three main interlinked areas: (i) it compiles, generates and…
Singapore is a Southeast Asian city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and comprises 63 islands with a population of about five million persons. Singapore has a well-developed market-based economy and is widely recognized as a free,…
According to United Nations statistics, almost nine million children die each year before they reach their fifth birthday. The highest rates of child mortality are found in sub-Saharan Africa, where, in 2008, one in seven children died before reaching their…
The World Economic Forum (WEF) publishes an annual report on the Global Gender Gap in 130 countries that provides statistical measures of gender differences within each country with respect to economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment, and health…
Women have made significant progress over the last two generations in overcoming the effects of discrimination in areas that affect their economic security. But much remains to be done to achieve fairness, not only in terms of countering the remaining…
As globalization spreads in economic and cultural terms, new economic and geopolitical powers are emerging. The beginning of the t we n t y first century is witnessing a major power shift as emerging economies develop and effectively redistribute the…