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TPP Deal Advances Without US
January 29, 2018
Bloomberg reports that 11 members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, from which the US withdrew upon the arrival of the Trump Administration, have decided to proceed with a revised version of the agreement that will bind these countries in areas ranging from labor rights to culture to intellectual property.
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UN Chief Seeks to Increase Pressure for SDGs
January 29, 2018
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has outlined a broad set of reforms to the UN system designed to help fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030, whose achievement he identified as a "fundamental human right," including by producing more effective teams to place pressure on specific countries to ramp up their action on the SDGs.
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UNESCO Develops Tool for "Sustainable" World Heritage Sites
January 29, 2018
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Centre has convened an expert group to help develop a global "tool" guiding managers of UNESCO World Heritage Sites to administer their responsibilities in line with a set of "sustainability indicators."
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World Bank Sets out Priorities in "Universal Health Coverage"
January 29, 2018
A press release from the World Bank congratulating a set of countries for their "pro-poor" policies aiming to provide universal health coverage emphasizes government schemes in these countries based on a redistribution of resources, such as through the creation of public insurance plans, over the lowering of prices through competition and deregulation.
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Critics Point to Political Motivations in World Bank Index
January 29, 2018
An article in The Economist highlights how, egged on by a recent, "misleading" interview answer by the international institution's chief economist, some observers view the World Bank's "Doing Business" index as an exercise in politics and an encouragement of a "race to the bottom" in regulations that make it more difficult to set up and maintain businesses.
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