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What Future Globalisation?
The 11th Annual Global Development Network Conference will take place over three days between 16-18th January 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic. The conference will focus on globalization and regional...
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Delving Deeper into the Unknown: Rethinking Globalization and Regional...
George Mavrotas* The 2008 global financial crisis has prompted us to take a fresh look at a wider spectrum of issues related to the globalization process. We no longer find ourselves embracing...
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GDN Conference Calls for New Global Financial Authority
Professor Guillermo Calvo has called for the creation of a new Global Financial Authority which would protect the global economy from future financial crises. He was speaking at a press conference to...
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Globalization Under Threat, and yet Opportunity Exists
Anticipation was in the air as delegates awaited the opening words of GDN President Gerardo della Paolera at the first plenary of 11th Annual Global Development Conference. Paolera framed the outline...
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European Report on Development 2009: Policy Recommendations to Overcome...
The findings of the first European Development Report were presented here in Prague in a parallel session of the GDN 2010 Annual Conference. The report deals with the issue of fragility, its causes and...
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South-South and North-South Cooperation: The New Dynamics of the Global Economy
One of the first parallel sessions of the conference attracted 20 participants to hear three speakers presenting an ongoing joint research project between UN-CRIS and UN-WIDER. The session, entitled...
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Development on the Move Reveals the Devil in the Detail
Language is very revealing. Phil Woolas, Hon. Minister of State for Borders and Immigration, said that Britain’s ‘screwed up’ attitude to international migration was revealed by the way people talk...
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Trans-continental research demands improved institutional infrastructure
African and Latin American research collaboration is identifying the differential role of institution and market forces in explaining the contrasting economic results of countries with similar...
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Assessing Participatory Development: Reflections from the World Bank
Participation has become a ‘buzz’ word strongly associated with varying forms of governance. In the development field participatory approaches to decision-making have emerged in part as a consequence...
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Regionalism provides solidarity for Islanders
Wood Uti Salele from the Oceania Development Network (ODN) chaired the parallel session. ‘Regionalism on Service Delivery in Pacific Island States; Emerging Issues’ discussed the recent changes in...
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Global Financial Governance: Quo Vadis?
The final Roundtable Session of the GDN conference discussed Global Financial Governance, and revealed a range of views and perspectives on the causes of the recent crisis, and some consensus on what...
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Strengthening youth capacity to climate change mitigation and adaptation
Verengai Mabika finalist in the 2011 Global Development Awards Competition – Japanese Award for the Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP), presented his project at the GDN’s 13th Annual...
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Meghalaya Model to fight against human trafficking
Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. It means the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or similar practices and the removal of organs....
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Spatial Concentration/Diversification in India
The process of urbanization in India is large city oriented. Beside the dominance of large cities, there is spatial disparity in terms of their distribution and other characteristics. Since class I...
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Agglomeration Shadow: A Non-Linear Core–Periphery Model of Urban Growth in...
The core–periphery (CP) model lacks evidence from real data for the nonlinear relationship between distance to core and market potential. The process of industrialization, as well as the geographic...
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Green Cities – A view from an ‘optimistic economist’
Professor Matthew Kahn (UCLA) participated in the second plenary session at GDN’s 13th Annual Conference, looking at the topic of cities as an engine of growth. Professor Kahn presented his work as an...
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Housing and basic infrastructure for all: A conceptual framework for urban India
India is projected to have an urban housing shortage of 29 million units by 2017. This deficit persists because housing interventions to date have been delivered in an ad hoc and fragmented manner in...
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How the World Bank Institute supports knowledge exchange on urbanization and...
Christine Kessides, Urban Practice Manager at the World Bank Institute, participated in the closing round-table of the 2012 GDN Annual Conference. The World Bank Institute works to foster the links...
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