What Choices Do Democracies Have in Globalizing Economies? Technochratic Policy Making and Democratization

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.UNRISD_DemocraciesGlobalizingEconomies.pdf: 39 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Lessons from World Bank Research on Financial Crises

The benefits of financial development and globalization have come with continuing fragility in financial sectors. Periodic crises have had real but heterogeneous welfare impacts and not just for poor people; indeed, some of the conditions that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for the poor. Past crises have also had longer-term impacts for some of those affected, most notably through the nutrition and schooling of children in poor families. As in other areas of policy, effective responses to a crisis require sound data and must take account of incentives and behavior. An important lesson from past experience is that the short-term responses to a crisis -- macroeconomic stabilization, trade policies, financial sector policies and social -- cannot ignore longer-term implications for both economic development and vulnerability to future crises.Financial crisis; macroeconomic response; social protection; poverty; safety nets

The Role of Civil Society in Policy Formulation and Service Provision

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.UNRISD_CivilSocietyPolicyFormation.pdf: 2456 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Lingnan Gardeners Bimonthly Newsletter (No. 47) = 嶺南彩園通訊 (第47期)

Balsamines 鳳仙花https://commons.ln.edu.hk/ln_gardeners_newsletter/1047/thumbnail.jp

Combating Poverty and Inequality

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.UNRISD_CombatingPovertyAndInequality.pdf: 36 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Lingnan Gardeners Newsletter (No. 35) = 嶺南彩園通訊 (第35期)

Lavender 薰衣草https://commons.ln.edu.hk/ln_gardeners_newsletter/1035/thumbnail.jp

Lingnan Gardeners Newsletter (No. 33) = 嶺南彩園通訊 (第33期)

Flowers of Dragon Fruit 火龍果花https://commons.ln.edu.hk/ln_gardeners_newsletter/1033/thumbnail.jp

Lingnan Gardeners Bimonthly Newsletter (No. 42) = 嶺南彩園通訊 (第42期)

春痕 : 永安廣場的桃花綻放https://commons.ln.edu.hk/ln_gardeners_newsletter/1042/thumbnail.jp