Terra Lawson-Remer says Jim Yong Kim will help steer the World Bank in the right direction.

Terra Lawson-Remer discusses the upcoming gathering of G20 finance ministers in Mexico City.

Susan Randolph, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Terra Lawson-Remer, building on a previously proposed methodology for an index of economic and social rights fulfillment, present country scores and rankings based on the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index (ESRF Index).

Terra Lawson-Remer examine the impact of collective fisheries ownership on household income and food consumption in Fiji

Terra Lawon-Remer examines the implications of concentrating study of property rights on aggregregate economic growth.

Terra Lawson-Remer and Joshua Greenstein say, "Many resource-rich African countries make poor use of their wealth... Instead of creating prosperity, resources have too often fostered corruption, undermined inclusive economic growth, incited armed conflict and damaged the environment."

Terra Lawson-Remer finds that in many countries members of marginalized groups face significantly higher property insecurity than foreign investors and domestic elites, and that although secure property rights for elites and foreign investors may be positively related to long-run development, property rights for marginalized groups are not.

Susan Randolph, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Terra Lawson-Remer, building on a previously proposed methodology for an index of economic and social rights fulfillment, present country scores and rankings based on the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index (ESRF Index).

Terra Lawson-Remer argues that the International Finance Corporation (the member of the World Bank Group responsible for financing private-sector projects) can and should require inclusion of commitments regarding sustainable development and human rights in the legal covenants that often govern large private-sector investments.

Terra Lawson-Remer examines the constitutive mechanisms through which free trade agreements, specifically Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), propertize resources.

Civil institutions are critical pillars of democratic accountability—without them, democracy remains elusive, regardless of the laws written in constitutions. This is particularly true in countries dependent on oil and other natural resource wealth, and those struggling to realize democratic transitions.

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With money playing an ever more important role in politics, institutions of higher education need to lead the charge for greater accountability in corporate political spending, says Terra Lawson-Remer.

University endowments ought to be invested in corporations that promote their institutions' mission, argues Terra Lawson-Remer. But for that happen, the Securities and Exchange Commission will first have to require public corporations to disclose their campaign spending activities.

Terra Lawson-Remer says Jim Yong Kim will help steer the World Bank in the right direction.

Terra Lawson-Remer discusses the upcoming gathering of G20 finance ministers in Mexico City.

Terra Lawson-Remer urges the U.S. Congress to safeguard funding for multilateral development banks as blanket budget cuts loom.

Terra Lawson-Remer argues that three factors will determine whether the renewed national dialogue ignited by the Wall Street occupations will result in substantive changes that have a meaningful impact on peoples' lives.

Terra Lawson-Remer states, "The Occupy protests have succeeded in galvanizing a conversation in the United States--unseen since the 1970s--about inequality, opportunity, the influence of money in politics, and the outsized power of corporations and financial institutions."

Terra Lawson-Remer warns that negotiators at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference must "take care that clever strategies to stop climate change do not threaten developing countries with a REDD induced resource curse."

Terra Lawson-Remer calls on the United States to take firm measures against multinational corporations that, when left unregulated, can operate beyond the rule of law to violate human rights and undermine general public good.

Terra Lawson-Remer argues that mobile phones are breaking the economic stranglehold of elites with access to capital and giving poor entrepreneurs a chance to build their own businesses and be their own bosses.

Emerging economies taking advantage of mineral and petroleum wealth often face corruption and conflict rather than benefit from sustainable development. This resource curse can be obviated, CFR Fellow Terra Lawson-Remer argues, if capital-exporting countries, banks, and corporations insist on transparency.

The G8 meeting at Camp David will focus on food security and advancing political transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, while the debate over solutions to the eurozone crisis will largely shift to the G20 forum, says CFR's Terra Lawson-Remer.