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After the G-20 Summit: Global Governance Reform is needed in Energy and Climate too

The G-20 summit to tackle the global financial crisis represented a welcome step to include developing countries in the international economic architecture. Governments must now extend this cooperation to tackling natural resource management and climate change too, says Trevor Houser.

 
World Publics see Government as Responsible for Ensuring Basic Healthcare, Food, and Education Needs

A new poll of 21 nations around the world finds that large majorities in every country say their government should be responsible for ensuring that citizens can meet their basic needs for food, healthcare, and education.

 
Is 'Taking it to the Streets' Worth the Bruises, Tear Gas and Arrests?

The film "Battle in Seattle" ends with the admonition that "the battle continues" - and the struggle in the coming years will be to compel those in power to transform campaign-trail rhetoric into a real rejection of corporate globalization, writes Mark Engler.

 
G8 Leaders Are Able But Unwilling To Act

The world's political leaders need to honour their pledges and wholeheartedly tackle the big global challenges, says Jeffrey Sachs.

 
Where Is the World Headed?

A multipolar world must prepare for a relative decline in US power and the turbulence that may follow, writes Immanuel Wallerstein.

 
A G8 Removed from the Real World

Climate, oil and food crisis - it's no longer business as usual for world's leaders, writes Larry Elliott.

 
Who Runs the World?

The post-war global institutions have largely worked well. But rising countries and growing threats are challenging their pre-eminence, writes The Economist.

 
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