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We have entered a new era of public policy, defined by a
growing number of concerns that transcend national borders.
As a result of increased openness and increasing cumulative
cross-border activities, a growing number of public goods
have now undergone a change in nature: traditional global
public goods, such as the atmosphere or the ozone layer, have
"gone national". They now require concerted national action.
More and more traditional national public goods on the other
hand have "gone global" and now require international cooperation
to make globalization work for all. There is thus a need for
institutionalizing the concept of global public goods in contemporary
policy making as a new rationale for cooperation between North
and South, rich and poor.
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for a briefer on global public goods
The global public goods theme is already firmly entrenched
in the international policy arena. The work done by the Office
of Development Studies (ODS) of the UNDP with its first book
"Global
Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century",
has provided impetus and recognition for the theme and opened
up avenues for further dialogue and action among Northern
and Southern governments and policy-makers. Many governments
and international organizations have taken up the issue and
are forcefully driving it forward, trying to operationalize
the concept and realize concrete results.
The sequel on global public goods "Providing
Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization" advances the debate on three fronts. First, the publication
further clarifies the concept and providing a typology
of global public goods. Second, it focuses on global
public goods that matter to the
poor and to developing countries. And third, the publication
sheds light on the operationalization of the concept by
examining not only the politics of global public goods provision but also
the production process of various goods, global public goods financing and
the links between global public goods provision and aid effectiveness.
Click here to go to the ODS book website http://www.globalpublicgoods.org
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