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Terra Lawson-Remer says Jim Yong Kim will help steer the World Bank in the right direction.
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Fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy
Opportunity and exclusion in the global economy: poverty and economic development, property rights, natural resources, global economic governance, fragile states, emerging economies, transitions, rule of law.
Terra Lawson-Remer says Jim Yong Kim will help steer the World Bank in the right direction.
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Terra Lawson-Remer discusses the upcoming gathering of G20 finance ministers in Mexico City.
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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).
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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."
See more in Africa, Corruption and Bribery, Economic Development, Emerging Markets
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.
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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).
See more in Human Rights, Economic Development
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.
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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.
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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.
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Terra Lawson-Remer says Jim Yong Kim will help steer the World Bank in the right direction.
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Terra Lawson-Remer discusses the upcoming gathering of G20 finance ministers in Mexico City.
See more in Geoeconomics, International Organizations, Intergovernmental Organizations
Terra Lawson-Remer urges the U.S. Congress to safeguard funding for multilateral development banks as blanket budget cuts loom.
See more in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nation Building, Economic Development, International Organizations, World Bank, Foreign Aid
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.
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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.
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CFR Fellow Terra Lawson-Remer of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy initiative proposes four steps for capital-exporting countries, international financial institutions, and private-sector companies to follow to foster democracy and sustainable development in emerging economies with significant natural resource endowments.
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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.
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The United States and France are among the biggest development aid donors, but none have reached the United Nations development aid goal for 2015. However, their development aid policies greatly contribute to fighting poverty in the world and improve education and health systems in developing countries. In light of these contributions and difficulties, CFR Fellow Terra Lawson-Remer and policy specialist at the United Nations Development Programme Thierry Soret compare French and American development aid policies and draw similarities and differences between them.
CFR Fellow Terra Lawson-Remer and Michael A. Cohen of the Century Foundation discuss U.S. foreign policy and its relationship with the Islamic world.
Terra Lawson-Remer, CFR fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy, discusses foreign policy and its role in the 2012 U.S. presidential election as well as the relationship between the United States and China.
Recently by adopted by Social Watch—the foremost international network of grassroots civil society organizations—as one of three core indices of social progress, the SERF index measures the extent to which countries meet their obligations to fulfill economic and social rights: the right to food, the right to adequate shelter, the right to healthcare, the right to education, the right to decent work, the right to social security, and protection against discrimination. It is the first of its kind to allow cross-country comparisons and to assess whether the situation of rights-fulfillment in a country is improving or deteriorating. To explore Terra's work with this acclaimed index, visit the SERF website.
