Global Markets, Global Citizens, and Global Governance in the 21st Century

Nancy Birdsall ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Nancy Birdsall and Christian Johannes Meyer

No 329, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: The politics, rules, and institutions of cooperation among nations have not kept up with the demands from global citizens for changes in the global political order. Whether norms and policies can make the global politics of managing the global economy more effective, more legitimate, and more responsive to the needs of the bottom half of the world’s population, for whom life remains harsh, remains to be seen. There is some cause for optimism, however: citizens everywhere are becoming more aware of and active in seeking changes in the global norms and rules that could make the global system and the global economy fairer—in processes if not outcomes—and less environmentally harmful.

Keywords: global economic governance; role of citizens; citizen activism; public opinion; global middle class; international financial institutions; World Bank; IMF; United Nations; income inequality; climate change; global public goods; political legitimacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 F02 H87 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2013-06
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