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IMF Promotes Activist Economic Equality Agenda
November 18, 2015
In recent remarks to Oxfam America, International Monetary Fund ("IMF") Managing Director Christine Lagarde called for the reduction of income inequality and the "empowerment" of women as ways for countries to grow their economies.
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WEF Summit Pushes Global Governance Reform
November 11, 2015
The World Economic Forum's ("WEF") recent Summit on the Global Agenda 2015 focused on how current institutions of global governance are "ill-equipped" to handle modern challenges and called for redesigning governance systems to usher in a "Fourth Industrial Revolution."
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NGOs Pressure Businesses on Development Goals
November 11, 2015
An article in The Guardian highlights how businesses are responding to pressure from nongovernmental organizations and the UN on implementing the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals by seeking to show that they are pursuing agendas on the environment and human rights.
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World Bank Official Promotes Cash Redistribution Programs
November 06, 2015
In a recent World Bank Policy Research Talk, a Senior Economist from the organization Berk Özler argued in favor of the benefits of unconditional cash transfer programs in providing a national social safety net.
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Groves: US Senate Must Protect Treaty Power on Climate
November 06, 2015
Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation writes that as the Obama Administration seeks to bypass the US Senate in upcoming climate negotiations that will likely produce a pledge to limit the country's carbon emissions, Senators must lead an effort to protect the body's constitutional authority to consent to international treaties.
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