Critical Choices: The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global GovernanceWolfgang H. Reinicke, Francis Mading Deng, Jan Martin Witte, International Development Research Centre (Canada) IDRC, 2000 - 141 pages The new global environment requires new approaches, new ideas and innovative tools to address new challenges in areas as different as weapons control, climate change, genetic engineering, and labor standards. Critical Choices looks at one such tool: global public policy networks. In these networks, governments, international organizations, the corporate sector and civil society join together to achieve what none can accomplish on its own. The authors explore both the promises and the limitations of this new form of global cooperation. They discuss how such networks might contribute to better manage the risks and make use of the opportunities that globalization presents. Finally, they offer provocative advice and solid recommendations on how the United Nations can foster such networks in the years ahead. |
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... markets 36 47 52 Implementing ideas and decisions 57 Closing the participatory gap . 61 Chapter 4. Network Management . 65 Getting the network off the ground 65 Balancing adequate consultation and goal delivery . Securing sustainable ...
... markets 36 47 52 Implementing ideas and decisions 57 Closing the participatory gap . 61 Chapter 4. Network Management . 65 Getting the network off the ground 65 Balancing adequate consultation and goal delivery . Securing sustainable ...
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... markets , and many of our other social institutions . These " trisectoral ” networks have already proved themselves to be effective , often remarkably so , in bringing together diverse and sometimes opposing groups to discuss common ...
... markets , and many of our other social institutions . These " trisectoral ” networks have already proved themselves to be effective , often remarkably so , in bringing together diverse and sometimes opposing groups to discuss common ...
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... markets , increasing competition , and encouraging the spread of capital , skills , and know - how worldwide , promises to raise standards of living in those countries that have embraced it . But the rapid dismantling of barriers to ...
... markets , increasing competition , and encouraging the spread of capital , skills , and know - how worldwide , promises to raise standards of living in those countries that have embraced it . But the rapid dismantling of barriers to ...
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... markets where they are lacking and deepening markets that are failing to fulfill their potential . Left to their own devices , markets sometimes fail to produce certain goods- public goods that the broader public interest demands . GPP ...
... markets where they are lacking and deepening markets that are failing to fulfill their potential . Left to their own devices , markets sometimes fail to produce certain goods- public goods that the broader public interest demands . GPP ...
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... markets . But networks also improve the process by which all these products and others come into being , and in so doing they help close the participatory gap , the sixth function . The intangible outcomes of networks - such as greater ...
... markets . But networks also improve the process by which all these products and others come into being , and in so doing they help close the participatory gap , the sixth function . The intangible outcomes of networks - such as greater ...
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