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The Global Economy

Balancing Risk Taking and Financial Regulation

• Regulate the banking and shadow-banking sectors by the same standards.
• Make the financial institution’s capital requirements risksensitive and countercyclical.

Fighting against Poverty in the Crisis aftermath

• Formalize employment relationships in developing countries and thereby enable workers to gain access to social security.
   

New Knowledge Creation Regimes

• Governments should facilitate the creation of knowledge groups including innovators, knowledge partners and funders to promote knowledge creation on environmental and poverty issues.

The Psychology of Financial Crises

• Correct myopic behavior in financial markets through taxing short-term relative to long-term profits.

 
The Global Society

Overcoming Inequality through Education

• Use publicly funded grant schemes to provide cheap access to education for the poor, particularly for girls.

The New Wave of Social Entrepreneurship

•  Reverse engineer social entrepreneurship by giving conventional commercial entrepreneurs incentives to become social entrepreneurs.

Making Migration Work after the Crisis

• Liberalize migration regulations for those who don‘t compete with vulnerable host groups; home and host countries should coordinate migration criteria for other groups.

Content and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility

• Replace traditional CSR by Shared Value Creation among business, customers, employees, and society in the long run.

 
The Global Polity

Fixing Failed Multilateralism

• Create a World Climate Organization to establish an encompassing regulatory framework.

Repairing Failed States

• Legalize the consumption of narcotics under policy supervision, thereby undermining the drugs trade.

The Future of Global Financial Governance

• Give the IMF and the Financial Stability Board more surveillance power through greater autonomy and restructuring of voting rights.

Towards Global Trade under Global Rules

• Complement an international trade agreement by an agreement on food security.

 
The Global Environment

Preparing for the Blue Revolution

• Price water and decouple land ownership and water rights, so that water rights can be allocated equitably.

Managing Marine Resources

• Specify fish quotas in terms of number of fish rather than weight, thereby protecting baby fish.

Establishing a Global Climate Regime

• Combine a global cap-and-trade system with an adaptation fund and access to emission-saving technologies for poor countries.

The Energy Crisis and Climate Change

• Give priority to measures that can increase energy efficiency in the short run, such as heat insolation of houses.