Health Equity: 03/12/09

Thursday, March 12, 2009

[EQ] The collapse of global trade, murky protectionism, and the crisis: Recommendations for the G20

The collapse of global trade, murky protectionism, and the crisis:
Recommendations for the G20

Edited by Richard Baldwin and Simon Evenett
Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR; University of St. Gallen and CEPR

UK Centre for Economic Policy Research CEPR 2009

Available online as PDf file [115p.] at: http://www.graduateinstitute.ch/webdav/site/iheid/shared/iheid/31/Murky_Protectionism.pdf

“…..When G20 leaders met last November in Washington, trade was a side issue; urgent efforts focused on stabilising financial systems and kick-starting economies. When leaders meet at the London Summit in April 2009, trade must move to centre stage.

Trade is experiencing a sudden, severe and globally synchronised collapse (see Figure 1). Protectionist forces have already emerged and will strengthen as the recession gets worse. But this is not 1930s-style protection. Governments’ crisis-fighting measures have spawned new, murkier forms of protection which discriminate against foreign firms, workers and investors – often in subtle ways. The use of WTO-legal protection, such as antidumping measures, is also up sharply….”

Contents

Foreword

Introduction and recommendations for the G20

PART I: CAPSTONE ESSAYS

1. Protectionism and the global economic crisis . the role of trade in the response Simon Crean

2. The multilateral trading system: a response to its challengers Ernesto Zedillo

3. Keeping borders open: why is it important for Latin America and what can the region do about it? Luis Alberto Moreno

4. Jobs, global trade and the perils of protectionism: the imperative of restoring confidence Victor K. Fung

5. What can the G20 do on trade that can benefit Africa? African Development Bank Secretariat

6. East Asia must share Obama.s leadership to keep trade open Hadi Soesastro

7. Protectionism and the crisis Anne Krueger

8. The Lithium President: fight protectionism with more passion Jagdish Bhagwati

PART II: IN-DEPTH ANALYSES AND PROPOSALS

9. The collapse of global trade: the role of vertical specialisation Kei-Mu Yi

10. Trade protection: incipient but worrisome trends Elisa Gamberoni and Richard Newfarmer

11. Protectionism is on the rise: antidumping investigations Chad P. Bown

12. Commodities, export subsidies, and African trade during the slump Tonia Kandiero, Abdul Kamara and Léonce Ndikumana

13. G20 surveillance of harmful trade measures Peter Gallagher and Andrew L. Stoler

14. Disavowing protectionism: a strengthened G20 standstill and surveillance

Biswajit Dhar, Simon Evenett, Guoqiang Long, Andre Meloni Nassar, Stefan Tangermann and Alberto Trejos

15. Restoring trade finance: what the G20 can do Marc Auboin

16. Bailouts: how to discourage a subsidies war Simon J. Evenett and Frédéric Jenny

17. Public procurement: focus on people, value for money and systemic integrity, not protectionsim

Steven L. Schooner and Christoper R. Yukins

18. Resist green protectionism . or pay the price at Copenhagen Simon J. Evenett and John Whalley

19. Keep the trade flowing by cutting red tape Gerard McLinden

Related material:

VoxEU ebook
What world leaders should do to halt the spread of protectionism at http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/2651 published December 2008 and launched at meetings in Geneva and London December meeting (at http://www.cepr.org/membership/meetings/2403 ).

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[EQ] Swiss Foreign Health Policy

Swiss Foreign Health Policy

Agreement on health foreign policy objectives

Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA) and Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)

Federal Office of Public Health FOPH Switzerland

PDF [20p.] available online at:

http://www.bag.admin.ch/org/01044/index.html?lang=en&download=M3wBPgDB/8ull6Du36WenojQ1NTTjaXZnqWfVp3Uhmfhnapmmc7Zi6rZnqCkkIZ2fHh/bKbXrZ6lhuDZz8mMps2gpKfo

Website: http://www.bag.admin.ch/org/01044/03338/index.html?lang=en

“…This policy paper is the result of an internal agreement between the relevant services of the Swiss federal administration. Its main purpose is to improve the instruments of internal cooperation, and to provide clear shared objectives for all Swiss administrative services active in the field of foreign affairs and public health policy…”

Table of contents

Context

Background: international context

Medium-term goals of health foreign policy

Table of the medium-term goals and priorities

Measures to increase coordination and coherence

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[EQ] World Health Organization - UK Institutional Strategy 2008-13

World Health Organization

UK Institutional Strategy 2008–13

HM Government, UK - February 2009

Available online at PDF [35p.] at:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_095296

The UK Government has recently agreed the first cross-Government Institutional Strategy (IS) with the World Health Organization (WHO).
The overall aim of the strategy is to set out how the UK and WHO will work together, and to provide a basis for multi-year (2008-2013) core funding relationship with WHO.

“….Institutional strategies are negotiated with a number of our key multilateral partners. They set out how the UK and the international agency concerned believe we can work together most effectively to support the goals and objectives of the UK Government and those of the international agency, and monitor the support provided by the UK to that agency.

The WHO Institutional Strategy is a joint UK strategy that has been led by the Department of Health (DH) in England, the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Other government departments (health departments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Her Majesty’s Treasury, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) have also contributed….”

“…..Critical health challenges face the world at the beginning of the 21st century, including:

• the rapid growth of non-communicable diseases and conditions;

• the growth in health inequalities between rich and poor within developed and middle-income countries;

• the still-unchecked HIV/AIDS pandemic;

• the possibility of a successor to the influenza pandemics of the last century;

• the persistence in many countries and many population subgroups of high but preventable levels of mortality and disability from:

– malaria, tuberculosis (TB), diarrhoea and pneumonia;

– malnutrition; and

– childbirth, for both mothers and infants; and

• the threat to health from climate change and other environmental factors.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is at the heart of the global response to all of these challenges. As the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations (UN) system, WHO is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries, and monitoring and assessing health trends. It is also a key development partner for delivering the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). WHO, as a co-sponsor of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), is central to the global effort to tackle HIV and AIDS.

Content:

Foreword

1. Introduction

2. Delivering better global health – the role of WHO

3. UK support to WHO

4. Priority areas 12

5. Monitoring and evaluation

Annexes

Annex 1: Joint UK institutional strategy performance framework

Annex 2: WHO strategic and operational framework

Annex 3: Financing flows to WHO

This Institutional Strategy sets out the rationale and objectives for UK support to WHO and the way we will work together and with others more effectively….”

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