Providing Global Public Goods

Addressing the issue of how to adjust the concept of public goods to today's economic and political realities, this title examines a series of managerial and political challenges that pertain to the design and implementation of product strategies as well as the monitoring and evaluation of global public goods provision. Elaborating on the concepts first introduced in Global Public Goods, this book addresses the long overdue issue of how to adjust the concept of public goods to today's economic and political realities. The production of global public goods requires the orchestration of initiatives by a large number of diverse actors across different levels and sectors. It may require the collaboration of governments, business and civil society, and in most cases it almost certainly calls for an effective linkage of the local, national, regional, and global levels. In light of today's new realities, this book examines a series of managerial and political challenges that pertain to the design and implementation of production strategies and the monitoring and evaluation of global public goods provision.As participatory decision-making enhances the political support for - and thus the effectiveness of - certain policy decisions, this volume offers suggestions on a number of pragmatic policy reforms for bringing the global public more into public policy making on global issues. Nine case studies examine the importance of the global public good concept from the viewpoint of developing countries, exploring how and where the concerns of the poor and the rich overlap.Providing Global Public Goods offers important and timely suggestions on how to move in a more feasible and systematic way towards a fairer process of globalization that works in the interests of all.

Effective financing procedures of global public goods can only be found by examining them in different policy fields. This allows identifying field specific and general attributes that determine the applicability and success of future methods. Previous research in global public goods either focuses on the theoretical foundations or applies them to one specific field, but does not seek to answer the question why certain methods have more potential for one field than for another?. The book focuses on two major fields of providing global public goods - the environment and health - and explores the key attributes. Through a comparative analysis I investigate common features and differences in the driving forces, political decision-making, possible methods of producing goods and ways of creating consensus. The research also identifies interdependencies across the levels of public good provision and between policy fields. The main findings include both universal (GPG-related) and sector specific conclusions. This book is primarily aimed at students and researchers in public policy, political, health and environmental sciences, as well as policymakers.