Globalization

Articles

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Bretton Woods Revisited: Creating a Monetary and Economic Order Fit for the 21st Century

Published: 12 June 2024

Statement

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference, together with partner institutions, we propose reforms in eight critical areas of the international economic and financial architecture to reflect the changing global realities and challenges.

By Ulrich Volz, Kamal Ramburuth, Janak Raj, Paulo Esteves, William N. Kring and Sarah Ribbert

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Why We Need to Reconfigure Globalization

Published: 10 October 2023

Presidents' column

A climate-neutral world free of hunger and poverty is a distant proposition. Still, it is achievable. If, by means of redistribution and global cooperation, we manage to create prosperity for all, democracy will profit too.

By Imme Scholz

Dossiers

Global Cooperation

Published: 17 August 2021

Dossier

As an international player, development policy issues are of great importance to the Foundation and are considered in many topics. We devote intensive attention to them at the Berlin Forum for Global Cooperation.

Publications

Debt Relief by Multilateral Lenders

Published: 22 September 2023

E-Paper

As the sovereign debt crisis in the Global South continues to unfold, the lack of involvement of multilateral development banks (MDBs) in debt relief efforts has become a contentious issue among major creditors. This report aims to contribute to the ongoing debate over debt relief negotiations and MDBs and makes policy recommendations how to include MDBs better in debt relief.

By Ulrich Volz and Kevin P. Gallagher

Privatizing the Governance of “Green Growth”

Published: 26 November 2012

Big transnational corporations do what they can to stick to and increase their power in the natural resources sector and promote that as “Green Growth”. How can civil society react to that? In their paper Nancy Alexander and Lili Fuhr analyse the state of the development and formulate questions for a debate.

North South Transitions to Green Economies

Published: 19 June 2012

The worldwide and sustainable transition of energy systems will only succeed if the economic and technological capacities of all countries are involved. Few developing countries have considerable production capacities for climate-friendly technologies. If the creation of attractive enabling environments in the global South goes hand in hand with new ways of careful export support in the global North, this will work as a global and fair Green New Deal.

Four Years after the World Food Price Crisis: The Governance of World Food Security

Published: 14 October 2011

The 2007–2008 world food price crisis caused political and economical instability and social unrest in both poor and developed nations. This was only the latest example for a functioning food system being an indispensable pillar of a stable economy and a society capable of reproducing itself. A new study outlines steps how the intergovernmental Committee on World Food Security could be expanded towards a politically relevant international steering committee.