An interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners analyze multi-variegated, cross-border activities in which non-state actors engage through a single conceptual lens. Chapters focus on remittances, ideas (global civil society, corporate support of NGO transnational transfers, international education and political socialization), and security (the transfer of peacebuilding capacity; transnational transfers and peace operations, and private security companies and private transnational transfers).

(DEVELOPMENT * TRANSNATIONAL TRANSFERS)

Current economic growth strategies around the world are rapidly depleting the natural resources and ecosystem services that we depend on. An overview of these challenges is provided from a Global South perspective. A just transition reconciles the sustainable use of natural resources with a pervasive commitment to sufficiency (where overconsumers are satisfied with less, so that underconsumers can secure enough). Rethinks development with special reference to the greening of the developmental state, sustainable urbanization, and agriculture.

(SUSTAINABILITY * DEVELOPMENT * DEVELOPMENT & SUSTAINABILITY)

The US has spent billions attempting to catalyze rule-of-law improvements within other countries. Describes the history and current state of reform efforts and the growing movement of second-generation reformers, who view rule of law not as a collection of institutions and laws that can be built by outsiders, but as a relationship between state and society that must be shaped by those inside the country for lasting change.

(DEVELOPMENT AND LAW * RULE OF LAW: REFORM * LAW AND DEVELOPMENT)

The current governance of migration is both insufficient and inefficient. Restrictive and non-cooperative migration policies affect development in migrant-sending countries and have counterproductive effects in the countries that implement them. The lack of integration policies generates costs for society. Focuses on South-South migration, regulation of migration flows, integration of immigrants, and impact of labor mobility on development.

(MIGRATION * DEVELOPMENT AND MIGRATION)

It is critical to understand the role public policy played in the evolution of trade for the globalization debate, and for future policy development. The comparative advantage hypothesis – which states that two countries will both benefit from trade if they have different costs for producing the same goods – provided the intellectual underpinnings for most trade policy in the past 50 years. But there are detrimental adjustment effects that often accompany integrated markets.

(TRADE * COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE * DEVELOPMENT)

A policy advisor to >30 countries (including Vietnam, Nigeria, Mongolia, and Saudi Arabia) argues that donor nations may advise and counsel, but creation of a liberal nation state falls to its own people. Ott examines budget policy and laws, and accurate and timely economic and financial reporting that assure donors that the recipient government is operating within the constraints of law. He addresses the beneficial effects of privatizing state-owned industry, examines costs and benefits of nurturing non-governmental organizations, and concludes with a review of transparent fiscal and monetary policies and the importance of non-interference in financial markets by the state.

(DEVELOPMENT * NATION BUILDING)

Aid aims to help developing countries integrate into the global economy and benefit from trade opportunities. Aid for trade is bettering the lives of many men and women in developing countries, as shown in show over 260 case stories and 140 self-assessments by partner countries, bilateral and multilateral donor agencies, providers of South-South co-operation, and regional economic communities. Increasingly, aid for trade is being integrated in broader development strategies, with objectives focusing on competitiveness, economic growth and poverty reduction. The Aid-for-Trade initiative was launched in 2005 at the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference; since then it has established a comprehensive framework for tackling trade and development- related issues.

(WORLD ECONOMY * TRADE * AID FOR TRADE * DEVELOPMENT)

“Around 40-45% of the world’s employed are unable to earn enough to lift themselves and their families above the US$2/day poverty line, and millions work in hazardous conditions. The IEA World Energy Outlook 2010 estimates 1.4 billion people worldwide still lack access to electricity, projected to fall only marginally to 1.2 billion by 2030. Some 2.7 billion rely on traditional use of biomass, with a projected increase to 2.8 billion in 2030. Focuses on areas requiring collective action by the entire international community and features 18 development policy topics divided into four broad categories: 1) sustainable economic growth (macro-economic policy, trade, investment, financial regulation, science, technology & innovation); 2) economic governance (taxation, anti-corruption, illicit financial flows), 3) environment and natural resource security (climate change, food security, water security, energy security), and 4) society (conflict and fragility, labor, education, migration, health).

(DEVELOPMENT * DEVELOPMENT POLICY: OECD OVERVIEW)

The world of development has changed radically since OECD’s Development Assistance Committee was established in 1961. At that time, most of the world’s providers of development assistance were represented in this committee. Today, there is an ever-growing number of financing instruments and entities, contributing to an increasingly complex architecture of development co-operation. At the same time, the complexity of issues that impinge upon – and are influenced by – patterns of development across the globe is more evident than ever before. Section topics: 1) the history of development co-operation and lessons learned in the past 50 years; 2) impediments to progress in gender equality, empowerment, human rights and the environment; 3) new challenges and new goals of official development assistance; 4) profiles of 24 DAC members.

(DEVELOPMENT * DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE: OECD OVERVIEW)

The days of US global economic dominance are numbered. By 2025, a multi-polar world will emerge in which economic clout is spread across developed and emerging economies. Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way through three major international economic trends: 1) the shift in the balance of global growth from developed to emerging economies, 2) the rise of emerging-market firms as a force in global business, and 3) the evolution of the international monetary system toward a multicurrency regime. Emerging and developing counties accounted for 46 % of international trade flows in 2010, up from 30 % in 1995. Cross-border mergers and acquisitions originated by firms based in emerging markets represent nearly one-third of global M&A transactions. The risk of investing in emerging economies has declined dramatically, while emerging economies’ financial assets and wealth have expanded: emerging and developing countries now hold three-fourth of all official foreign exchange reserves. The Bank projects emerging economies to grow an average of 4.7%/year through 2025, more than double he 2.3% forecast for advanced economies. (Also see the companion website http://www.worldbank.org/GDH2011, for this first edition of a new “flagship” report.)

(WORLD ECONOMY * DEVELOPMENT)