Synopses & Reviews
This collection offers a new rationale and framework for international development cooperation. Its main argument is that in actual practice, development cooperation has already moved beyond aid (i.e. assistance to poor countries) and onto issues such as the ozone hole, global climate change, HIV, drug trafficking, and financial volatility. These issues are not poverty-related but instead concern global housekeeping, which helps to ensure an adequate provision of global public goods. Contributors include Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Jeffrey Sachs of the Harvard Institute for International Development, Joseph Stiglitz of the World Bank, and many others.
Review
"The book is well worth the time of anyone interested in this view."--Ethics
Review
"At a time when many are saying that globalization has gone too far, UNDP has produced a wide and deep study of global public goods. The volume deals with peace and trade, but also with global warming, transnational pollution, disease and financial crisesall public badsand their suppression, which constitutes a good. The subject is complex but of paramount importance to a world experiencing, or approaching, multidimensional crises."--Charles Kindleberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"This is an important piece of work on one of the most interesting and urgent problems of our time. An increasing number of issues, including those of the developing world, are an international responsibility. This volume does a distinctively important service by drawing this fact to our attention. I admire the effort that has gone into it. I particularly endorse the result."--John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard University
"We need better international cooperation to ensure that human beings have full access to necessary public goods. This volume is an invaluable tool to bring this goal closer."--Paul Kennedy, John Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University
"With the publication of this volume, UNDP has again proved to be a leading intellectual agency, as well as an important operational body."-- Kazuo Takahashi, IDirector, International Development Research Institute, Tokyo
"This volume introduces a framework for facilitating and reinforcing international development through an equal partnership model of cooperation. I find it enlightening, and hopefully reflective of the changing values of this era."--Ismail Razali, Chairman, Central Bank of Malaysia
Synopsis
This prestigious collection includes a contribution by 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Amartya K. Sen, and offers a new rationale and framework for international, development cooperation.
"At a time when many are saying that globalization has gone too far, UNDP has produced a wide and deep study of global, public goods. The volume deals with peace and trade, but also with global, warming, transnational pollution, disease, and financial crises -- all public bads -- and their suppression, which constitutes a good. The subject is complex but of paramount importance to a world experiencing, or approaching, multidimensional crises." -- Charles Kindleberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
FOREWORD, James Gustave Speth
INTRODUCTION, Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg and Marc A. Stern
CONCEPTS
Defining Global Public Goods,, Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg and Marc A. Stern
Intergenerational Public Goods: Strategies, Efficiency and Institutions, Todd Sandler
The Political Economy of International Cooperation, Lisa L. Martin
CASE STUDIES
Equity and Justice
Equity in a Global Public Goods Framework, J. Mohan Rao
Distributive Justice as an International Public Good: A Historical Perspective, Ethan B. Kapstein
Global Justice: Beyond International Equity, Amartya Sen
Market Efficiency
Deep Integration and Trade Agreements: Good for Developing Countries?, Nancy Birdsall and Robert Z. Lawrence
International Financial Instability, Charles Wyplosz
Environment and Cultural Heritage
Montreal v. Kyoto: International Cooperation and the Global Environ-ment, Scott Barrett
New Strategies for the Provision of Global Public Goods: Learning from International Environmental Challenges, Geoffrey Heal
Cultural Heritage as Public Good: Economic Analysis Applied to Historic Cities, Ismail Serageldin
Health
Global Epidemiological Surveillance as a Public Good: International Cooperation to Monitor Infectious Diseases, Mark W. Zacher
Health As a Global Public Good, Lincoln C. Chen, Tim G. Evans and Richard A. Cash
Knowledge and Information
Knowledge as a Global Public Good, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Global Communi-cations for a More Equitable World, J. Habib Sy
The Public Face of Cyberspace, Debora L. Spar
Peace and Security
Preventing Deadly Conflict: From Global Housekeeping to Neighborhood Watch, David A. Hamburg and Jane E. Holl
Peace as a Global Public Good, Ruben P. Mendez
Policy Implications
International Public Goods and the Case for Foreign Aid, Rajshri Jayaraman and Ravi Kanbur
Regional Public Goods In International Assistance, Lisa D. Cook and Jeffrey Sachs
Conclusion
Global Public Goods: Concepts, Policies and Strategies, Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg and Marc A. Stern
Glossary
Further Reading, compiled by Priya Gajraj
About the Contributors
Index