UNU Update
The newsletter of United Nations University and its international network of affiliated institutes

Issue 9: June 2001

 

UNU co-hosts seminar
on global
governance
and institutional reform

A standing-room-only crowd packed the Dag Hammarskjold Library auditorium in the UN Secretariat building last month for a seminar on The Governance of Globalization, hosted by UN University and the UN Division of Social and Economic Development.

The seminar was organized to discuss the findings of a new study, New Roles and Functions for the UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions, prepared by UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) with support from the UN Division for Social Policy and Development and Finland's Foreign Affairs Ministry

The study warns that the U.N., World Bank and International Monetary Fund, created at the end of World War II, today operate on badly outdated political and economic foundations and need to be overhauled before a crisis induced by globalization forces the changes required.

The seminar was moderated by John Langmore, Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development, and featured presentations by three of the experts who contributed to the study:

AP coverage
Press Release

Richard Falk

John Langmore

Deepak Nayyar

José Antonio Ocampo

 

Photos courtesy of
Leila Mead/IISD

 

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