Transnational Bodies

OECD Official Pushes Economic Equality Measures

October 25, 2016

In remarks to the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Deputy Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Mari Kiviniemi called for governments to create "more inclusive societies where the benefits of growth are more equally shared” in order to address unemployment and slow productivity growth.
Mayors Set up "Global Parliament" on Urban Challenges

October 24, 2016

Reuters reports that, prior to the UN's "Habitat III" conference in Ecuador, approximately 60 mayors from cities around the world have agreed to create what they call a "global parliament" to decide policy solutions to issues facing urban areas, including economic inequality, migration, affordable housing, and the impacts of climate change.
BRICS Explores Establishment of Credit-Rating Agency

October 24, 2016

Complaining of low sovereign credit scores by US-based rating agencies, officials from the BRICS group of countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - have pledged to explore the establishment of a BRICS credit-rating agency, built "on the principles of fairness and equity," to advance the group's efforts in the global governance of finance.
Development Banks Release Comprehensive SDG Agenda

October 19, 2016

The International Monetary Fund and a group of major multinational development banks, including the World Bank, have published a statement in which they pledge to work toward a comprehensive agenda toward fulfilling the UN Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030, including by creating "green" pathways for their future finance operations.
IMF Event Includes Call for Global Review of Monetary Policy

October 19, 2016

At a recent International Monetary Fund seminar that focused on the effects of the policies of central banks on "emerging economies," former Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao supported the development of a global body that would review whether authorities properly assess the international impacts of their national monetary policy decisions.
WEF Launches Center for Global Governance of Technology

October 19, 2016

The World Economic Forum has launched its Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco to develop policy frameworks for the governance of future technological breakthroughs.
WEF Convenes Panel for Global Policy Prescriptions

October 11, 2016

The World Economic Forum recently convened a Network of Global Future Councils, made up of "innovators from academia, government, business, civil society, the arts and the media," to provide international policy solutions for a wide range of issues and to help prepare governments for the advent of a "Fourth Industrial Revolution."
OSCE Plans Largest-Ever US Elections Observer Team

October 05, 2016

Reuters reports that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is seeking to organize the largest team it has ever sent to monitor US elections in November, in particular to scrutinize activists' charges of racially discriminatory voting laws in certain US states.
Kirchner: G-20 Lacks Influence on Domestic Policies

September 22, 2016

An article from economist Stephen Kirchner laments that the G-20 group of countries has come to serve as an unpromising forum with little to show in the way of global governance that influences items on the domestic agendas of its members.
OSCE Official: Trespassing Charge Chills Media Freedom

September 21, 2016

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović has called for authorities in the US to rescind a warrant issued for the arrest of a reporter on charges of criminal trespassing while she was covering a story, arguing that such charges have a "negative impact on journalists' right to do their work."