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No. 1 -- May 2005
Greetings!
The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) would like to announce its new newsletter. The newsletter will appear three times a year to keep you informed about the institute, to post our newest publications, and to share interesting recent news related to global issues and global public policy-making.
Along with the newsletter, GPPi would also like to announce that it has officially launched its new website: www.globalpublicpolicy.net
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Contents of this newsletter:
A) News from the institute
B) New Publications
C) Global issues in the news
A) News from the institute (all headlines link to article)
- GPPi Fellow Sören Buttkereit gives talk on private provision of public goods
- GPPi Director Wolfgang Reinicke addresses investor conference in Madrid.
- Kemal Dervis, GPPi advisory board member, nominated to head UNDP.
- GPPi and GPPi director Wolfgang Reinicke featured in the FAZ.
- GPPi co-hosts workshop on partnerships for sustainable development during the UN CSD meetings in New York.
- Mark Malloch Brown, GPPi advisory board member and Kofi Annan’s chief of staff, challenges Germany to increase its development aid budget.
- World Bank launches major evaluation report on Global Programs and Partnerships; GPPi Director Wolfgang Reinicke member of the Advisory Committee to the study.
B) New Publications
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Jan Martin Witte: "Schlusspunkt Berlin - eine Hauptstadt als wirtschaftsfreie Zone," impulse, 15.04.2005, (2005).
Julia Steets: "Waltz, Jazz, or Samba? The Contribution of Locally Driven Partnerships to Sustainable Development," Discussion Paper presented at SEED Partnerships for Sustainable Development workshop, April 14th, 2005, (2005).
Streck, Charlotte and Markus Gehring: "Emissions Trading: Lessons From SOx and NOx Emissions Allowance and Credit Systems Legal Nature, Title, Transfer, and Taxation of Emission Allowances and Credits," Environmental Law Institute 4-2005, (2005).
Beyond these publications GPPi has also issued a new research publication series, the first three scheduled to appear in the GPPi Research Paper Series are:
Steets, Julia: Developing a Framework: Concepts and Research Priorities for Partnership Accountability, in: GPPi Research Paper Series No. 1. Berlin 2005.
Burall, Simon; Caroline Neligan: The Accountability of International Organizations, in: GPPi Research Paper Series No. 2. Berlin 2005.
Jordan, Lisa: Mechanisms for NGO Accountability, in: GPPi Research Paper Series No. 3. Berlin 2005.
C) Global issues in the news:
Topic 1: Foreign Aid and the World Bank
Author: Sebastian Mallaby
From Foreign Affairs, May/June 2005 (subscription required)
Summary: The next World Bank president will confront a nearly impossible challenge: saving the institution from a curious alliance of conservatives and radical activists that threatens to undercut its financial viability and effectiveness. Failure to head off the danger will mean the gradual decline of the best tool the world has for managing globalization, just when that tool is more needed than ever.
Title: Addressing the Challenges of Globalization
Author: World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
To read the report click here:
Summary: The World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department (OED) , the independent evaluation office within the World Bank, has released its report on The World Bank's Approach to Global Programs and Partnerships. This report titled Addressing the Challenges of Globalization completes OED's evaluation of the Bank's involvement in global programs.
Author: Ngaire Woods
Summary: Book Review of "The World's Banker" by Sebastian Mallaby, "The End of Poverty" by Jeffrey Sachs, and "Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries" by Nicolas van de Walle
Topic 2: United Nations Reform
Title: In Larger Freedom: Decision Time at the UN
Author: Kofi Annan
From Foreign Affairs, May/June 2005
Summary: Dealing with today's threats requires broad, deep, and sustained global cooperation. Thus the states of the world must create a collective security system to prevent terrorism, strengthen nonproliferation, and bring peace to war-torn areas, while also promoting human rights, democracy, and development. And the UN must go through its most radical overhaul yet.
Topic 3: Roll Back Malaria Partnership
Title: Reversing the failures of Roll Back Malaria
From Lancet, Friday, April 22, 2005
www.medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp
Summary: The British Medical Journal the Lancet critiques the Roll Back Malaria campaign.