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11/10/08
John Ruggie
Business & Human Rights: Achievements and Prospects
 
11/10/08
Raymond Fisman
Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
 
11/04/08
Laurent Cohen-Tanugi
The Shape of the World to Come
 
10/28/08
James Farrar, Gerhard Pohl, Emily Polk, Steve Rochlin, Devin Stewart, Andrew Zolli
Can Web 2.0 Revolutionize Corporate Responsibility?
 
10/07/08
Heather Grady, Norine Kennedy, Jill Kubit, Peter Poschen, Michael Renner, Sean Sweeney
Green Jobs
 

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Business & Human Rights: Achievements and Prospects
John Ruggie speaks at the Carnegie Council
UN Special Representative John Ruggie outlines why businesses must respect human rights, why states must protect them, and why victims must have access to remedies. His future work will focus on how these various stakeholders can bridge the governance gaps in the international system. (Transcript with video clips) > More

Briefings: Electric Jeepneys Challenge a Philippine Icon
E-jeepney in Baguio City, Philippines. Photo by Randy Bautista, http://flickr.com/photos/rndbau/2293048740/ (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic).
Philippine e-jeepney. Photo by Randy Bautista (CC).

By Sheila Oviedo

The Philippine passenger jeepney has started to shed its image as a smoke-belching, eardrum-busting public utility vehicle. Originally fashioned out of WWII American military jeeps, these colorful "kings of the road" are going green. > More

Briefings: Somali Pirates Scuttle Sea Laws
T Jolly Roger, aye. Photo: Nick Humphries, http://flickr.com/photos/nickhumphries/1405653435/ (Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic)
Pirate skull and crossbones. Photo by Nick Humphries (CC).

By Matthew Hennessey

Armed with automatic weapons and confident in their ability to extort millions of dollars from shipping companies, pirates are once again trolling the high seas in search of booty. > More

Briefings: Economic Gangsters
Raymond Fisman
(Transcript with video clips)

Raymond Fisman untangles the economic incentives that drive corruption and inhibit development, looking at factors that influence cheating and trade-offs between efficiency and equity. > More

Events: Health as a Human Right
Maputo General Hospital Pediatric ward doctor providing treatment Mozambique. Photo: Eric Miller/ World Bank, http://flickr.com/photos/worldbank/1195901054/ (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial
Mozambique hospital. Photo: Eric Miller/ World Bank (CC).

This Workshop for Ethics in Business with Krista Bauer, Meg Boulware, Maggie Kohn, Rohit Malpani, and Lisa Oldring will analyze the right to health and the various roles and responsibilities that businesses, NGOs, and governments have in meeting this essential human need.

DATE: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
TIME: 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
PLACE: 170 East 64th Street, NYC
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Events: The Measure of America
Cover image, The Measure of America, American Human Development Report
With Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis

Although human development reports have been produced in more than 150 countries, there has never been one on the United States until now. The authors of The Measure of America present their findings.

DATE: Thursday, December 4, 2008
TIME: 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
PLACE: 170 East 64th Street, NYC
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Commentary: What Should Bretton Woods II Look Like?
Jose Antonio Ocampo
By Jose Antonio Ocampo

The agenda for international financial reform must include a global system for prudential regulation, an international debt court, and a revamped IMF managing a global reserve currency. > More

Commentary: Don't Super Size the IMF
Kenneth Rogoff
By Kenneth Rogoff

Now is the time to sharpen the IMF's role as an interlocutor between lenders and developing country borrowers, not to ramp up IMF lending on a long-term basis. > More


 

 

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