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Building a binding instrument on business & human rights

By: South Centre

31-10-2017

The Third Session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and

other business enterprises with respect to human rights is taking place from 23 to 27 October 2017 in Geneva. This Session will shift the discussion on the elements of an international binding instrument on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with respect to human rights to substantive negotiations on the binding instrument as established under the mandate of Resolution 26/9 adopted in July 2014.

The Asian financial crisis: lessons learned and unlearned

By: South Centre

11-09-2017

Yılmaz Akyüz

Governments no doubt draw lessons from financial crises and adopt measures to prevent their recurrence. However, these often address the causes of the last crisis but not the next one. More importantly, they can actually become the new sources of instability and crisis. This appears to be the case in Asia where the lessons drawn from the 1997 crisis and the measures implemented thereupon may be inadequate and even counterproductive in crisis prevention today because they entail deeper global financial integration.

Public-Private Partnerships as the Answer . . . What was the Question?

By: South Centre

03-08-2017

Manuel Montes

In discussions at the UN about achieving Agenda 2030, it has become de rigueur to highlight the role of the private sector. It is often introduced as the discovery of the idea that private sector investment and financing is indispensable to achieving Agenda 2030. For developed country diplomats and their associated experts this new celebrity treatment appears to be an article of faith, at least during negotiations on economic matters in the UN. They are foisting a misleading Trumpian exaggeration that is technically harmful to development policymaking and to Agenda 2030.

Legally binding instrument on TNCs human rights: October session a successful step on the way forward

By: South Centre

20-01-2017

Kinda Mohamadieh

Betw

een the 24^th and 28^th of October 2016, in Geneva, the open-ended working group (OEIGW) on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with respect to human rights successfully held its second meeting.

Sobre la existencia de cuestiones sistémicas y sus implicancias en materia de políticas (On the existence of systemic issues and their policy implications)

By: South Centre

24-11-2016

Manuel Montes

Systemic issues are issues that arise from the built-in features of the global system and the impact of the interaction of its parts; as implied in the chapter title in the Monterrey Consensus, it pertains to the coherence and consistency of the monetary, finance and trade systems. Systemic issues point at the weak points in the whole global financial “architecture,” the international structures and mechanisms that are beyond the control of individual countries. Systemic issues are a particular concern to developing countries, which have experienced their greatest development reversals during international payments crises.

UN-Prinzipien für den fairen Umgang mit überschuldeten Staaten (UN Principles on the fair treatment of over-indebted countries)

By: South Centre

11-11-2016

Manuel Montes

On 10 September 2015, at its Sixty-Ninth Session, the UN General Assembly in plenary session adopted the resolution on “Basic Principles on Sovereign Debt Restructuring Processes” (A/RES/69/319) in New York, with 135 member States voting for, six against and 42 abstentions. On the grounds that it would create uncertainty and reduce external financing for developing countries, the United States, supported by developed country allies – European Union countries, Japan, Australia and New Zealand – voted against the proposed General Assembly effort to start work toward a multilateral legal framework in the UN.

Démocratie, Bonne Gouvernance et État de Droit, s’appliquent-ils dans le système économique international?

By: South Centre

05-08-2016

Manuel Montes

Cet article étudie la question du <<non-droit>> dans le système économique international, en s’intéressant au cas particulier des traités bilatéraux d’investissement.

Right to Development: Worth Celebrating? Yes. Time to Act Now.

By: South Centre

28-07-2016

Manuel Montes

Thirty years ago, the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Right to Development (“the Declaration”). Is this anniversary worth celebrating? Has this declaration outlived its usefulness and its anniversary best forgotten? My answer is NO.

Big divides remain just a month before Paris climate meeting

By: South Centre

26-10-2015

Martin Khor

Much is expected of the important Paris climate conference, but so many huge differences remain among the countries and time is running out.

TPPA: The debate will continue

By: South Centre

12-10-2015

Martin Khor

Although the TPPA negotiations have concluded, the text is not yet made public, and the debate on its effects and implications will go on.

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Building a binding instrument on business & human rights

The Asian financial crisis: lessons learned and unlearned

Public-Private Partnerships as the Answer . . . What was the Question?

Legally binding instrument on TNCs human rights: October session a successful step on the way forward

Sobre la existencia de cuestiones sistémicas y sus implicancias en materia de políticas (On the existence of systemic issues and their policy implications)

UN-Prinzipien für den fairen Umgang mit überschuldeten Staaten (UN Principles on the fair treatment of over-indebted countries)

Démocratie, Bonne Gouvernance et État de Droit, s’appliquent-ils dans le système économique international?

Right to Development: Worth Celebrating? Yes. Time to Act Now.

Big divides remain just a month before Paris climate meeting

TPPA: The debate will continue

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