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During this time, India weaned itself from dependence on aid, preferring to borrow from multilateral lenders and, increasingly, from commercial banks.
More broadly, the summit is taking place amid a fracturing of the multilateral order.
Unlike in 2008, however, the world’s capacity for multilateral decision-making is deteriorating.
Economists estimate that global free trade, enabled by many successful rounds of multilateral talks (most recently the Uruguay Round, culminating in the establishment of the World Trade Organization), has boosted worldwide income substantially.
It is an active participant in multilateral institutions such as the International Commission and World Congress Against the Death Penalty, and it has been mobilizing support within the UN for a global moratorium on executions.
International trade must bring about a rise in social and environmental standards, which requires a multilateral Euro-Mediterranean system.
With technology enabling unprecedented mobility and connectivity, the jurisdictional power of nation-states is being eroded, meaning that a truly effective response – one that unleashes the full benefits of disruptive technologies – is impossible without multilateral cooperation and coordination.
Such tools include well-designed public-private partnerships, especially when it comes to modernizing infrastructure; disruptive outside advisers – selected not for what they think, but for how they think – in the government decision-making process; mechanisms to strengthen inter-agency coordination so that it enhances, rather than retards, policy responsiveness; and broader cross-border private-sector linkages to enhance multilateral coordination.
Instead, the new US administration should help to create a broad multilateral framework for the region, one aimed at building a genuine consensus on the goal of achieving Afghan stability by addressing the legitimate sources of Pakistan’s insecurity while strengthening opposition to disruptive Pakistani behavior.
This risks eclipsing a far more important discussion of the role that multilateral investment institutions play in supporting economic growth in emerging markets and the challenges they face achieving this goal.
A prerequisite for the success of any development bank or other multilateral institution is adherence to the highest standards of transparency and accountability.
Forming partnerships with both national and other multilateral institutions can help them harness expertise from around the world.
When George W. Bush took office in 2001, he expected to increase defense spending, deploy an anti-missile system, and dismantle several longstanding multilateral arms-control obligations.
America’s New Trade HypocrisyAs the current “development round” of trade talks moves into its final stages, it is becoming increasingly clear that the goal of promoting development will not be served, and that the multilateral trade system will be undermined.
The whole exclusion simply undermines the multilateral trading system.
Both those committed to trade liberalization within a multilateral system and those committed to helping developing countries will look at America’s new strategy with abhorrence.
And it should promote multilateral measures to combat profit-shifting to tax havens.
Worse, while promoting multilateralism on the world stage, China has given the cold shoulder to multilateral cooperation among river-basin states.
Although China publicly favors bilateral initiatives over multilateral institutions in addressing water issues, it has not shown any real enthusiasm for meaningful bilateral action.
The creation of the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocol showed Europe successfully pushing for more multilateral governance.
EU leaders like to talk about “effective multilateralism,” but they are not very effective at defending their values or interests in multilateral institutions like the United Nations.
Taken at face value, it seems to suggest that governments have all but abandoned their commitments to the World Trade Organization and the multilateral trade regime.
Most Europeans believe that China wants to be a shaper of – not a challenger to – a balanced world order, a strong United Nations, and an effective multilateral system.
The Doha Round’s Premature ObituaryNEW YORK – The Doha Round, the first multilateral trade negotiation conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, is at a critical stage.
But even as these efforts are gathering momentum, The Financial Times, which used to be a staunch supporter of multilateral free trade, dropped a cluster bomb on Doha, even congratulating itself that, in 2008 (when a ministerial meeting failed to reach closure), it “argued that leaders should admit the negotiations were dead.”
The Regional Route to Global Free TradeMADRID – With the moribund Doha Round of multilateral free-trade talks awaiting its last rites, a new wave of regional trade negotiations has de facto taken up the mantle of establishing a global trade regime.
Who can drive consensus on a multilateral response to climate change?
The inclusive multilateral framework of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe could serve as a basis for the way forward.
Once the dust settles, China, India, Brazil, South Korea, and a handful of other “emerging” nations will be able to exercise greater influence over the way that multilateral economic institutions are run, and will be in a better position to push for reforms that reflect their interests.
There is no small irony in the fact that on November 15, America’s lame duck president, the unilateralist George W. Bush, is hosting a multilateral conference to discuss reshaping the global economic system.
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