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	<description>Responses to the global crisis: charting a progressive path</description>
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		<title>Saving globalisation…..again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ngaire Woods: A decade ago, massive anti-globalisation protests spurred finance ministers from the G20 countries to declare that they would make globalisation more inclusive. Ten years later what looks inclusive are the harsh costs of the financial crisis with unemployment, foreclosures, and a sharp economic slowdown spreading across the world. The public are angry and afraid.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/saving-globalisation%e2%80%a6again/</link>
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		<title>The new interventionist state</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gunnar Folke Schuppert: Discussions on the role of the state have always involved a search for appropriate metaphors. “The taming of the Leviathan,” “the state in retreat,” and even worse, the “slim state” – between fitness and anorexia – are but a handful of examples. The most popular metaphor at present seems to be “the return of the lost Leviathan.” But this metaphor is misleading. The state is not returning from foreign exile. Instead, the state is reinventing itself by rediscovering its genuine institutional capabilities, its monopolies over rule making and taxation, and the privilege of not going bankrupt.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/the-new-interventionist-state/</link>
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		<title>Clean change in a crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Miranda A. Schreurs: There is no doubt that the current crisis represents major challenges for the world’s policy makers. Yet, while the problems we face are dire, the crisis may provide us with an opportunity to institute changes that will lead towards a more sustainable and equitable global economic structure. Existing structures have contributed not only to our current economic woes; they are also responsible for other serious global problems, including climate change.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/clean-change-in-a-crisis/</link>
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		<title>An equitable climate change framework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrés Rivera: Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our times. Its effective resolution will require an overhaul of existing frameworks at the domestic, regional and global levels.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/an-equitable-climate-change-framework/</link>
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		<title>The third industrial revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Rifkin: The global financial crisis has shaken the very foundations of our economic systems.  It has demonstrated that our models of economic growth, based on high-consumption and heavy use of scarce resources, are no longer sustainable. Now is the time to move towards new modes of production. The way out of the crisis is to kick-start the third industrial revolution, which will also lead to a more sustainable economy for the future.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/the-third-industrial-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Restructure now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert B. Reich: The current worldwide economic downturn is a manifestation of deeper structural problems in our economies. As a result of increasing global competition and technological advancements, the US and other post-industrial nations have seen declining median incomes and a widening gap between rich and poor. Therefore, consumer demand in the US and other post-industrial nations has been insufficient to keep these economies running at full capacity.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/restructure-now/</link>
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		<title>The green opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Podesta: In countries around the world, the global financial crisis is crippling economies and making it more difficult for people to provide for their families on a daily basis. However, there is an opportunity presented by the financial crisis – an opportunity to transform the way we produce and use energy.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/the-green-opportunity/</link>
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		<title>A transformative strategy for the state</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marcio Pochmann: The global crisis has exposed the false promise of neoliberalism. The countries which advanced most rapidly down the path of marketisation and state deregulation are now amongst the most vulnerable in a world undergoing rapid change. It is therefore not surprising that today, in our efforts to respond to the global crisis, we are witnessing a “return” of the state, even if the latter, in its current configuration, still lacks the transformative strategy needed to address the challenges of the 21st century.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/a-transformative-strategy-for-the-state/</link>
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		<title>Financial governance networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Katharina Pistor: The global financial crisis has exposed fundamental weaknesses in the existing governance regime for global financial markets. Although the crisis is far from over, it is not too early to conceptualise a new governance regime for global finance.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/financial-governance-networks/</link>
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		<title>A new world development architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[José Antonio Ocampo: The major objective of progressive governance should be to reduce the massive inequalities that characterise the world today, while facilitating sustainable growth. This implies reducing the fairly generalised trends towards increasing inequalities within countries that have characterised the world in recent decades. It also means reducing the massive inequalities in per capita incomes among countries, which explain about 70 per cent of world income inequalities.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/a-new-world-development-architecture/</link>
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		<title>Creating capabilities for development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martha C. Nussbaum: All over the world, people are struggling for a life that is fully human, a life worthy of human dignity. Countries and states are often focused on economic growth alone, but their people, meanwhile, are striving for something different: they want meaningful human lives.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/creating-capabilities-for-development/</link>
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		<title>Towards global justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ricardo Núñez Muñoz: The global economic crisis has brought into stark relief serious flaws at the core of the current international order. In recent decades, the international system has been heavily dominated by market driven growth, which has frequently come at the expense of more progressive objectives.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/towards-global-justice/</link>
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		<title>A social contract for the global age?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Marshall: Fate – or, more precisely, his White House predecessor – has dealt President Barack Obama a stupendously lousy hand. On the economic front, he faces not one huge problem but three: the worst banking crisis since the Depression, what seems likely to be the longest recession since World War II, and an exploding public debt that threatens America’s fiscal stability.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/a-social-contract-for-the-global-age/</link>
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		<title>Recalibrating industrial policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roger Liddle: A new industrial activism is pivotal to how progressives respond to the global financial crisis and tackle the long-term need to rebalance our domestic economies. Anglo-America faces this challenge most acutely because the drivers of growth had become too dependent on financial services, cheap supplies of overseas capital, excess consumer debt and house price bubbles. But countries with strong export surpluses for which US demand has collapsed, or that have over-relied on the natural resource boom, may face similar long-term challenges.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/recalibrating-industrial-policy/</link>
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		<title>Three progressive ideas for the recession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oscar Landerretche: It has become increasingly clear that the structure of current multilateral financial institutions is inadequate. The global financial order is chaotic and inadequately regulated. Progressives now face an important – if difficult – challenge. We have to strike a new balance between global financial freedom and global economic responsibility. The coordination of financial regulatory standards has stopped being a purely intellectual endeavour, and become the order of the day.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/three-progressive-ideas-for-the-recession/</link>
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		<title>Telling the truth about trade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ricardo Lagos Weber: At times of global crisis, governments are naturally inclined to implement policies to protect their citizens. No government can stand idle in the face of massive market failure.  At the same, a line needs to be drawn to prevent these policy decisions from descending into protectionism.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/telling-the-truth-about-trade/</link>
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		<title>Transformation through the crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ricardo Lagos Escobar: The current global financial crisis may usher in changes as extensive as those brought about by the fall of the Berlin wall in the twentieth century. Indeed, what we are currently experiencing is the dramatic fall of another wall - Wall street.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/transformation-through-the-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Laying the foundations for future progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bernardo Kosacoff: As the global economic crisis deepens, the world is becoming increasingly uncertain. Now is the time to construct a shared public-private vision for development and progress. The key challenge is how to build a solid institutional framework for a stable economy.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/laying-the-foundations-for-future-progress/</link>
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		<title>Protecting the vulnerable in the world’s most unequal region</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bernardo Kliksberg: The World Bank has predicted that Latin America will grow at a rate of only 0.3 per cent in 2009, fifteen times less than average rate of 4.7 per cent over the last five years. Such a drastic drop in the growth rate would have a severe impact on any economy, but in the world’s most unequal region, the consequences are likely to be even worse.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/protecting-the-vulnerable-in-the-world%e2%80%99s-most-unequal-region/</link>
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		<title>Taming the financial casino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Kay: We cannot discuss how we emerge from the present crisis unless we understand how we entered the present crisis. This is a confusing discussion.    Politicians, public officials and bankers give mixed signals as they compete to point fingers in any direction but their own.  The crisis was not an act of God, unpredictable to and unpredicted by ordinary mortals. The crisis was not caused by loose monetary policy in the US.  Nor was the crisis the result of the American and European love affair with housing, or the proclivity of English-speaking consumers for excess credit. The crisis was caused by sub-prime mortgage lending in the US only in the same sense that the first world war was caused by Princip’s assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/taming-the-financial-casino/</link>
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		<title>A grand bargain for global capital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Hutton: What has happened to the American and British financial systems – the heart of the global financial system – is nothing less than catastrophic. Shock waves that have radiated out from New York and London have impacted on every national banking system.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/a-grand-bargain-for-global-capital/</link>
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		<title>Slowing the protectionist juggernaut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gary Hufbauer: At the G20 Summit, held in November 2008, leaders pledged to avoid protectionist policies.  Before the ink was dry, India and Russia put up new barriers. Since the turn of the year, Britain has engaged in financial protectionism, France and Italy both proposed restrictive auto measures, and the US has enacted a “buy American” rider on its stimulus package.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/slowing-the-protectionist-juggernaut/</link>
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		<title>In search of a new welfare state</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anton Hemerijck: As the financial crisis deepens and spills over into rising unemployment and social duress, the need for resilient employment and social policy is greater than ever. We need to seize the moment for a major change in the way we think about 21st century welfare provision.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/in-search-of-a-new-welfare-state/</link>
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		<title>The equivalence principle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Held &#38; Kevin Young: Although it is increasingly acknowledged that complex global processes, from the financial to the ecological, connect the fate of communities across the world, the problem-solving capacity of existing international institutions is in many areas not effective, accountable or fast enough to resolve global dilemmas.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/the-equivalence-principle/</link>
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		<title>Linking ecological and economic security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Harriss-White: Concerns that the pursuit of a low carbon global economy may lead to further deprivation in the developing world rest on a false assumption. “Low carbon life styles” are already lived by the poor in the “south”. It is rich countries, accounting for most of the pollution, which face an unprecedented challenge in adapting their ways of life to allow human societies to survive on the planet.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/linking-ecological-and-economic-security/</link>
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		<title>The future of social protection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clarisa Hardy: The social progress made in recent years in Latin America appeared in conjunction with universal social policies and increased social spending directed towards the poorest sectors in areas such as education, health, social infrastructure and connectivity, as well as basic services (sanitation, drinking water and energy).]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/the-future-of-social-protection/</link>
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		<title>Rehabilitating financial markets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Refet Gürkaynak: In the current period of financial turmoil people are angry about past deeds of financial institutions and skeptical about their future usefulness. Yet, financial markets play a crucial role in our economies and they need to be rehabilitated to better serve their purpose.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/rehabilitating-financial-markets/</link>
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		<title>Bridging the gaps in climate change Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Giddens: Here are some core principles for climate change policy]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/bridging-the-gaps-in-climate-change-policy/</link>
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		<title>The state in a shifting economic paradigm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marco Aurélio Garcia: Economic crises tend to expose deep-seated contradictions in society. This is particularly true when the crisis in question has global and systemic proportions, as in the current case. In times of crisis, it is not unusual to witness “some of the most perverse phenomena”, to borrow a phrase from an Italian intellectual from the previous century, as old paradigms are questioned and new ones have not yet necessarily taken their place.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/the-state-in-a-shifting-economic-paradigm/</link>
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		<title>A people first strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James K. Galbraith: In 1930, John Maynard Keynes wrote, “The world has been slow to realise that we are living this year in the shadow of one of the greatest economic catastrophes of modern history.” Today, as then, we are in the shadow of catastrophe.  Today, as then, our thinking is slow. We need to come to grips with the crisis itself.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/a-people-first-strategy/</link>
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		<title>The progressive welfare mix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maurizio Ferrera:As the financial and economic crisis deepens, the need for effective safety nets and social protection systems is today greater than ever. Yet the question of how the welfare state can meet the new challenges in a sustainable way, considering demographic trends and budgetary constraints, remains complex.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/the-progressive-welfare-mix/</link>
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		<title>In defence of public policies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aldo Ferrer: The current global financial crisis has triggered a lively debate on the role of the state in the shape and development of market economies. The free-market paradigm that prevailed prior to the crisis has now been swept away, just as it was in the 1930s following the Great Depression. The path to economic recovery will only be established through public policies.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/in-defence-of-public-policies/</link>
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		<title>Hammering economic protectionism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simon J. Evenett: Avoiding a re-run of the 1930s is not inevitable. Actions not just words count in perilous times such as these. Only together can progressive leaders prevent the protectionism, mass unemployment and misery, and ultimately the threat to peace that the 1930s became.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/hammering-economic-protectionism/</link>
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		<title>Five ideas for strengthening the IMF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barry Eichengreen: Policy Network has asked us to present five key proposals for strengthening international financial institutions, which in my case means the International Monetary Fund, in no more than 700 words.  That times out to 140 words a proposal.  (I’ve now got 650 words left.)]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/five-ideas-for-strengthening-the-imf/</link>
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		<title>Striking the right balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Howard Davies: It is difficult to overstate the gravity of the financial and economic crisis which the world now faces. The crisis is so serious that it clearly justifies fundamental re-thinking about the way in which national governments, and the international institutions to which they are affiliated, carry out their tasks of overseeing the global economy and, particularly, of regulating financial markets.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/striking-the-right-balance/</link>
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		<title>Reforming welfare around workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dean Baker: The global economic crisis will have consequences at all levels of society, yet it is the most vulnerable who will be least well-equipped to cope. Governments must be bold in reorienting their policy agendas for the benefit of these groups.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/reforming-welfare-around-workers/</link>
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		<title>Innovating out of the crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Atkinson: While the causes of the global financial crisis are many, at the core there is one: Washingtons belief in the primacy of unfettered markets. This belief is not just some random notion that happens to be in vogue. Rather, it lies at the heart of the prevailing doctrine of neo-classical economics: the primacy of stable markets driven by rational actors responding to price signals.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/innovating-out-of-the-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Developing countries in the face of the storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Glauco Arbix: In the 1980s, a debt crisis shook Latin America and Africa. Another one then hit Asia, Russia and again Latin America at the end of the 90s. Many countries had their trajectories momentarily interrupted, even though they were able to recover rapidly in tune with the global economy. In the current recession, it is developed countries that are in the eye of the storm.]]></description>
		<link>http://progressive-governance.net/developing-countries-in-the-face-of-the-storm/</link>
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