She was responsible for policy development on environmental
global public goods and managing the sizeable aid budget of the Department.
Looking at the varieties of
global public goods, I want to focus on those that I will call economic public goods.
As the Inclusive Prosperity Act demonstrates, there is not actually a scarcity of public funds for
global public goods; it is a question of political will.
Utilities are not there to spend money on
global public goods, which is what CO2 reduction is.
Global functions are those that address transnational issues by supporting
global public goods such as research and development (R&D), managing cross-border risks, such as pandemic preparedness, and fostering leadership and stewardship.
«These are considered
global public goods.
The US — at great expense and great risk — both maintains regional balances of powers and provides
global public goods.
Not exact matches
«In the broader scheme of things, our finding should lead us to be modest about the potential utility of
global governance, particularly voluntary «soft» norms, to deliver
public goods,» adds Nathan Andrews, one of the study's co-authors.
But this will require proactive
public policy; the
global technology companies are unlikely to invest in such
goods on their own because poor people do not constitute much of a market.
* Recognition of the monetary and non-monetary values of
public goods such as ecosystem services, education, health and
global common resources such as the oceans and the atmosphere.
The real problem is cooperation in the most uncooperative of games — a
public -
goods game with many players facing distant and uncertain
global payoffs.