Transnational Bodies

OECD: Governments Must Communicate Migration Benefits

September 21, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has called on governments to better communicate the benefits of mass migration into their countries and better integrate migrants in order to counter "growing anti-immigration backlash."
Academics Criticize TPP Dispute Structure

September 15, 2016

A letter to members of the US Congress from law and economics professors raises concerns with provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that they say will permit access by foreign investors to a special procedure to challenge and receive taxpayer compensation for alleged harm from US government policies and decisions.
Experts Call for Delay in ICANN Transition

September 14, 2016

Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation and homeland security consultant Paul Rosenzweig list several reasons why the US government should rethink the timing of its transfer of control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to a global multi-stakeholder body, including the danger of influence by authoritarian governments on internet regulation.
BRICS Seeks to Challenge Western Global Governance

September 14, 2016

A profile of the BRICS grouping of countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - by Huifang Tian of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences makes clear the group's intent to establish a system of global governance on economic issues that rivals that of current institutions, such as the G-20 group of countries, dominated by Western governments.
Slovenian Ex-President Highlights G-20's Social Agenda

September 07, 2016

In an interview with the Chinese state press agency, former Slovenian President Dr. Danilo Turk calls for the G-20 group of countries, in addition to stimulating global economic growth, to continue work toward the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda at a conference in Hangzhou, China.
Experts Warn of ICANN Unaccountability

August 29, 2016

Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation and Paul Rosenzweig of Red Branch Consulting LLP call for the US to provide for a test period during which authorities can review the transition of oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers from the US government to a global, multistakeholder group they say provides few checks upon ICANN leaders.
Academic Pushes Reduced Role for Global Governance

August 25, 2016

Professor Dani Rodrik of Harvard University argues that, in a world where economic policy decisions still have primarily domestic impacts, governments should use global governance as a limited tool to promote transparent and representative democracies rather than as a mechanism to advance certain domestic policy outcomes.
Development Banks Ramp up "Climate Finance"

August 10, 2016

The six largest multilateral development banks, including the World Bank Group, have announced that they advanced a total of $81 billion during 2015 in funding to counter climate change and adapt to its future impacts.
US Seeks British Trade Deal to Advance TTIP

August 08, 2016

The Guardian reports that US officials are moving toward talks with their UK counterparts on forming a post-Brexit, bilateral free trade deal in an effort to motivate EU member states to advance stalled negotiations over a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the US.
IMF Seeks Gender-Driven Fiscal Policies

August 03, 2016

The International Monetary Fund has published a report that encourages governments to adopt "gender budgeting" policies, which use tax and spending to promote the broad aims of gender equality and women's development, and reviews the extent to which countries use these policies to promote gender equality around the world.