"This volume introduces a framework for facilitating and reinforcing international development through an equal partnership model of cooperation. I find it enlightening, and hopefully reflective of the changing values of this era."

Ismail Razali
Chairman
Central Bank of Malaysia

"This book embarks into new dimensions of thinking."

 Klaus Schwab
 President
 World Economic Forum, Davos

"This is an important piece of work on one of the most interesting and urgent problems of our time. An increasing number of issues, including those of the developing world, are an international responsibility. This volume does a distinctively important service by drawing this fact to our attention. I admire the effort that has gone into it. I particularly endorse the result."

John Kenneth Galbraith
Harvard University

"We need better international cooperation to ensure that human beings have full access to necessary public goods. This volume is an invaluable tool to bring this goal closer."

Paul Kennedy
John Dilworth Professor of History
Yale University

"How can self-interest be harnessed for the public good? This volume will prove useful to anyone interested in answering that question."

Jose Goldemberg
Former Minister of the Environment, Brazil, and a leading negotiator at the Rio Earth Summit

"At a time when many are saying that globalization has gone too far, UNDP has produced a wide and deep study of global public goods. The volume dealswith peace and trade, but also with global warming, transnational pollution, disease and financial crises-all public bads-and their suppression, which constitutes a good. The subject is complex but of paramount importance to a world experiencing, or approaching, multidimensional crises."

Charles Kindleberger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"This volume is bound to be an important reference for future work and public debate."

Ralph C. Bryant
The Brookings Institution

"The concept of public good offers a useful analytical framework for the continuing debate over the usefulness of aid because, among other things, of its focus on the mutuality of benefits. In particular, regional public goods must be a critical part of the strategy for Africa's growth and development and for improving Africa's competitiveness."