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Global public goods are an often ignored but enormously important aspect of multilateralism. Whether we are talking about preserving biodiversity, preventing climate change, fighting the spread of communicable diseases, establishing rules for trade and aviation, or setting global standards of human rights, it is impossible for any single state to secure such goods on its own. Quite the contrary, global public goods can only be attained if countries work together, and globalization has only increased this fundamental interdependence. This book offers practical suggestions for improving the way in which the community of nations addresses common vulnerabilities and seizes common opportunities, and it highlights a basic truth about our times: global problems require global action.
Kofi A. Annan
Secretary-General
United Nations
July 2002
"Without the negotiated cooperation of democratic states and citizenries, pathological trends of globalization will be exacerbating. What seems like nobody's business becomes everybody's business. Economists and leaders, I predict, will want to digest and debate this book."
PAUL A. SAMUELSON
Nobel Laureate in Economics (1970)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"This book provides valuable recommendations for providing global public goods in a world of multiple actors and interests–and, in the process, for reducing the democratic deficit that characterizes globalization."
JOSÉ ANTONIO OCAMPO
Minister of Finance and Public Credit,
Colombia (1996 - 1997)
Executive Secretary, Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean
"Providing Global Public Goods stands to become a founding document in efforts to come to grips with globalization."
JAMES K.GALBRAITH
The University of Texas at Austin
"It is no exaggeration to say that this book's title is worth a thousand words. The approach to providing global public goods offered in this volume does not involve repackaging global priorities. Rather, it emphasizes the vital need for international collective action."
PRADEEP S. MEHTA
Secretary General, CUTS-Centre for
International Trade, Economics and Environment
"This book fills a critical gap. It helps the business sector understand the provision of global public goods and provides a platform for dialogue between private and public actors."
MARSHALL N. CARTER
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Retired)
State Street Bank and Trust Company
"The collection of essays and studies in Providing Global Public Goods is a welcome addition to the literature. They fill a gap in the development and economic discourse and bring up issues that are mostly neglected. The very concept of public goods, both national and global, necessarily means that ‘globalization' is a process of political economy-and nothing is inevitable or irreversible."
CHAKRAVARTHI RAGHAVAN
South North Development Monitor/
Third World Network
"This volume constructively advances the theory and assessment of global public goods. It offers innovative approaches to address the deep inadequacies of many existing global institutional arrangements. It will undoubtedly be an important reference for academics, researchers, and policymakers interested in fresh approaches to global institutional reform."
BARBARA STOCKING
Director, Oxfam
"Africa has reason to be skeptical about globalization. But the strength of the case presented in this book gives encouragement to all who seek just and sustainable development."
AKILAGPA SAWYERR
Association of African Universities
"UNDP has done the world a great service by contributing a global public goods perspective to discussions of globalization."
DANI RODRIK
Harvard University
"Global public goods such as international financial stability, environmental sustainability, and infectious disease control, are underprovided, often dramatically. Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization is a must read for those interested in guideposts towards a prosperous, sustainable, and equitable 21st century."
JEFFREY D. SACHS
Columbia University
Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-
General on the Millennium Development Goals
"I found this book extremely interesting. It significantly advances our knowledge about a critical challenge faced by the international community: the provision of global public goods. Both students and practitioners of international relations will
find this volume an indispensable guide."
ERNESTO ZEDILLO
President of Mexico (1994 - 2000)
Yale University
"If sustainable development is to become a reality, the debate on global public goods needs to be vigorously pursued. This comprehensive volume opens up the discussion on managed globalization."
THE RT HON CHRISTOPHER PATTEN
European Commissioner for External Relations
"Providing global public goods is exactly what the doctor ordered for a global public either worried about or discontented with globalization. This book is indispensable for those who need to understand globalization–as well as those who think they know enough about the subject."
SOLITA C. MONSOD
Minister of Socio-Economic Planning,
Philippines (1986 - 1989)
University of the Philippines
"Financial stability, the environment, the fight against major pandemics and everyday security are no longer only national goals but global public goods.We need to think afresh about how to provide and finance them."
DOMINIQUE DE VILLEPIN
Minister of Foreign Affairs, France
"Protests against globalization have arisen from a sense of frustration among people who feel that the private sphere is growing without rules and regulations, at a cost to be borne by the rest of the society. Civil society organizations therefore demand equitable access for all,without arbitrariness, based on the right to development and protection of human rights. This book is a timely reminder of the issues at stake, and it offers an analytical framework to create a more equitable international order."
IRENE KHAN
Secretary-General, Amnesty International
"In today's global economy the production of private goods has taken precedence over the provision of public goods. Correcting this imbalance is a major policy challenge to which this book makes an important contribution."
GEORGE SOROS
President and Chairman,
Soros Fund Management LLC
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