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IN THE NEWS 
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 Video Interview Series:
Global Health Governance Study Group
S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance
Meet the members of the Global Health Governance (GHG) Study Group, hear their views on key challenges in GHG today, how to strengthen GHG research capacity and the focus on their research.
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| (Pictured: Kelley Lee; Co-Chair, GHG Study Group, S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance) |
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 Crisis as Opportunity: Think Globally, Coordinate Regionally, Act Nationally
16 Nov 2009
CAG Director Ann Florini recently chaired a lecture given by President of ADB Mr Haruhiko Kuroda (pictured above) titled "Crisis as Opportunity: Think Globally, Coordinate Regionally, Act Nationally". President Kuroda stressed the importance of using the global financial crisis as an opportunity to articulate what is good for Asia and the world, and that Asia must move forward on reforms that build on national priorities and the regional agenda. His full speech is available here.
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Watch Dr Tikki Pang's in-depth powerpoint presentation on Global Health Governance: A cart pulled by too many horses? 9 Nov 2009
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Rebalancing Perceptions of Migration
14 Oct 2009
The UNDP Human Development Report 2009 titled "Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Barriers" was launched at the LKYSPP on 14 October, 2009. CAG Senior Research Fellow Tess del Rosario, whose research interests include labor and migration in Southeast Asia, was one of the panelists at the launch, held at the LKY School of Public Policy. Email Tess for more details.
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 Social Impact of Sustainable Asian Social Enterprises
12 Oct 2009
Durreen Shahnaz who heads PSIC (Programme on Social Innovation and Change), successfully convened a workshop on social impact of sustainable Asian social enterprises. Download her power point presentation and the paper. Email Durren for more info. |
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Also read about Durreen's Social Stock Exchange project in Economist.com
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 How should policymakers promote renewable electricity in Southeast Asia?
Based on research interviews of experts around the world as well as an extensive literature review, this report by CAG Research Fellow & LKYSPP Assistant Professor Benjamin K. Sovacool examines the applicability of the most commonly preferred renewable electricity policy mechanisms in Europe and North America to Southeast Asian electricity markets. It explores what the governments of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam can best to do promote wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and hydroelectric sources of electricity supply. Email Ben for more info.
Also read about Ben's new book "Powering the Green Economy"
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Social Development as Neo-liberal Trojan Horse
CAG Research Fellow Toby Carroll seeks to reconceptualise the post-Washington consensus (PWC) by focusing not simply upon the institutional structures and ideology promoted by it, but the manner in which these are promoted on the ground. The aim is to reveal a central distinction between the Washington consensus and the PWC that has been somewhat neglected: their diverging approaches to implementation. Toby focuses on the World Bank-funded Kecamatan Development Program (KDP) in Indonesia, a project that is viewed by some as being somewhat unorthodox.
This article was published in Development and Change, Vol 40. No. 3. The article will be translated into Indonesian and republished in a special edition of the Indonesian Social Science journal Prisma in March 2010. Email Toby for more info. |
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Launch of the Corporations to the Rescue? seminar series by Sanjeev Khagram - one of the world's leading thinkers on new approaches to financial regulation. (click image above to download e-flyer)
Date: Thursday, 3 Dec 2009
Time: 6 pm - 8 pm
Venue: FTSE Room, 9F Capital Tower, 168 Robinson Road, Singapore
RSVP by 30 Nov 2009 to Jasmin Kaur
Synopsis:
The impacts of the global financial-cum-economic crisis were more profound and pervasive than originally predicted. In Asia alone, if growth had not been stalled by the crisis over the past year, there would be 60 million fewer people living below the US$1.25 a day poverty line and around 100 million fewer living below $2 a day.
The global economic crisis was caused by overwhelmingly excessive levels of leverage in the financial system. Some argue that more transparency will lead to appropriate levels of self-regulation by banks and other private financial sector firms, while others argue for much greater levels of government regulation, without which future global financial crises will not be mitigated. While the debate and corresponding action for formulating principles and norms to stabilise the global financial system continues, it should also take into account social and environmental objectives. This could aid in the design and implementation of innovative forms of hybrid regulation that go beyond the false binary options of state command-and-control versus market self-regulation. Finally, those engaged in the debate, must consider the dramatic increases in corporate citizenship and new social enterprise models of private financial institutions
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S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance
Concepts of Global Governance Study Group Meeting
Date: 30 Nov - 1 Dec, 2009
Venue: LKY School of Public Policy, Singapore
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