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Constitutionalization has traditionally been discussed in the context of the nation state and the relation between rulers and citizens.
The G20 leaders boldly designated themselves as ‘the premier global economic forum’.
02-11-2011 | G20 at a Crossroads
Since the Second World War, the IMF and the World Bank have been key pillars of global economic governance.
Governing Through Standards – rather than through law and regulation – is one of the central trends that has emerged in industrialized countries since the 1980s.
In recent weeks, issuance of Eurobonds has moved centre stage in debates over how to deal with the escalating sovereign debt crisis in Europe.
“If 1989 saw the end of the ‘Second World’ with Communism’s demise, then 2009 saw the end of what was known as the ‘Third World’”, Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, famously declared in April 2010.
The economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current worldwide financial crisis and to have significantly underestimated its dimensions once it started to unfold.
13-05-2011 | Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World
Book launch. In "Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World" Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte offer a deeply informed and stinging critique of ‘compassionate consumption’.
04-02-2011 | Industrial Policy on the Rise?
Industrial policy is on the rise. Despite fiscal austerity in the UK, for instance, the British government recently launched a comprehensive industrial policy.
04-02-2011 | 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang from University of Cambridge will visit DIIS to present his new book, 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
DIIS hosted two seminars, one on Industrial Policy on the Rise with Robert Wade and Ha-Joon Chang and the second on 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
18-01-2011 | Financial Transaction Tax
A Financial Transaction Tax could potentially generate revenues and stabilize markets
DIIS hosted an international conference on the Financial Crisis and its Impact on Low Income Countries with a discussion of the responses from LIC and initial lessons to be learned.
12-10-2010 | Asia’s Long-term Growth and Development Prospects
Despite rapid growth in the last decades, Asia remains a region marked by widespread poverty, home to two-thirds of the world’s poor.
08-09-2010 | Combating Tax Avoidance by Multinational Corporations in Poor Countries:Will Country-by-Country Reporting Do the Job?
Tax avoidance is a global problem. It involves the abusive exploitation of gaps and loopholes in domestic and international tax law that allow multinational companies to shift profits from country to country
11-08-2010 | Carbon Footprints, Trade and Development
Carbon footprint labels and border measures are at the centre of current debates cutting across climate change, trade and development policies.
When the EU and IMF announced its joint €750 billion rescue plan to prevent Greece’s sovereign debt crisis from spreading to Spain and Portugal and ultimately casting doubt on the future of the euro, international markets and media responded with relief.
14-06-2010 | Standards, Trade and Africa: Research, Capacity Building and Policy Outcomes of the SAFE Programme
A growing proportion of global agro-food trade is currently managed through the use of standards. This is the result of increasing consumer concern with food safety and ‘sustainability’, the leading role assumed by large supermarkets and processors in agro-food value chains, and massive investments by these in brand development and protection.
10-06-2010 | Juggernaut or Catalyst for African Industry? China’s New Overseas Economic Zones and Industrial Investment in Africa
Competition from China’s ambitious export drive is widely regarded as closing off opportunities for entry-level industries in Africa. But is this actually the case?
In public debate, the story of the financial crisis has largely been a story of deregulation, complex financial products and greedy financiers.
29-03-2010 | Rethinking the World Bank
These years are unusual ones for the World Bank. In the course of just two years the global economic recession has more or less eradicated the hard-won achievements made in terms of poverty reduction over the preceding two decades.
24-02-2010 | Governing Through Standards
The Governing Through Standards international symposium brought together scholars with a common interest in how and why standards are used as economic and social governance tools and with what effects.
Coming out of one of the worst financial crises in modern history, the task of fundamentally reforming banking should be on the top of the political agenda
China’s rise as a global economic superpower is one of the most significant changes in the world economy for decades.
10-11-2009 | China’s Economic Diplomacy
China’s growing role in the world economy is indisputable. After more than two decades of export-driven economic growth averaging nine per cent a year, China is today the third largest economy in the world.
22-10-2009 | Is the global economy recovering?
Is the global economy recovering – or heading for even deeper trouble? Professor Ajit Singh (University of Cambridge) will present a paper giving an optimistic response to this question – and Professor Morten Ougaard (Copenhagen Business School) will act as discussant.
16-09-2009 | Reforming the Bretton Woods Institutions
In November 2008, an international policy process of huge potential significance for the future livelihoods of people throughout the world was initiated by the G-20 countries.
03-06-2009 | Global Governance and the Paradoxes of Liberalism
It is pertinent to reflect on the immediate history of our global economic institutions. There is a fundamental need to reform the World Bank and the IMF say academics and politicians alike, and some have even spoken of the need for a new global deal, a ‘Bretton Woods II’ agreement.
17-03-2009 | Where Next for International Financial Regulation?
The G-20 summit in November initiated an international policy process of enormous significance for the future livelihoods of people throughout the world and many hope for a new era in international economic governance.
A seminar with Andries du Toit. Fifteen years after the end of Apartheid, and on the eve of its fourth democratic general election, South Africa faces daunting challenges.
03-11-2008 | Understanding the Global Financial Crisis
“Deprive a person of oxygen and he will turn blue, collapse and eventually die. Deprive economies of credit and a similar process kicks in. As the financial crisis has broadened and intensified, the global economy has begun to suffocate” (The Economist, 9 October, 2008).
26-06-2008 | Udenrigspolitiske udfordringer i det 21. århundrede
Udenrigsminister Per Stig Møller debatterer det 21. århundredes udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitiske udfordringer med et panel af fire yngre forskere, samt forskere og studerende blandt publikum
Aaron Cosbey, Tao Wang and John Kornerup Bang will present a Trade Monday perspective on climate change
A seminar in the 'Trade Monday' series on current and future developments in trade agreements
Seminar presenting recent work by DIIS researchers focusing on access to global capital markets and Economic Partnership Agreements
05-11-2007 | China - Friend or Foe?
This Trade Monday seminar seeks to answer the question by examining China's economic relations with Japan and the United States
This seminar focuses on the current status of political debates on international trade and Doha Round in the EU and the US
15-05-2007 | Finansiering af udvikling i Afrika
Som et led i udredningen om finansiering af udvikling i Afrika indbyders til et seminar med fokus på eksterne finansieringskilder til udvikling i Afrika.
A seminar on how trade policy can help Africa
A seminar with Dr. Alisa DiCaprio on: The WTO and the Shrinking of Development Space
08-02-2007 | Afrika og WTO’s Doharunde
DIIS-seminar om WTO's Doharunde og Afrikas handelsinteresser
A seminar in the 'Trade Monday' series that examines the evolution, recent visibility, and future potential of ‘Aid for Trade’ as a development assistance mechanism
02-10-2006 | Trade Monday seminar: Trade and Public Health: Patents, Medical Services and Access to Medicines
A seminar in the 'Trade Monday' series that concerns the consequences of globalisation for the organisation of pharmaceutical industry and public health in general and in developing countries
28-08-2006 | Trade Monday Seminar: The Doha crisis: What does it mean for developing countries and the WTO?
A seminar in the 'Trade Monday' series that examines the repercussions of the current crisis in the Doha round of trade negotiations at the WTO
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