poverty, boost development
Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (YCSG), has been involved in two projects with international reach recently.
Zedillo was a key figure in the international launch of the Report of the United Nation's Millennium Project, commissioned by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has also been named chair of the Global Development Network.
The Millennium Project is a major international effort involving 250 independent experts. Its goal is to reduce extreme poverty in the world by half by the year 2015.
Zedillo served as one of the coordinators of the project's International Task Force on Trade which produced a report titled "Trade for Development." His co-coordinator was Patrick Messerlin, director of the Groupe d'Economie Mondiale at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
At the launch ceremony in New York on Jan. 17, Zedillo presented remarks along with Annan; Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Millennium Project; and Jose Antonio Ocampo, a U.N. under-secretary-general.
The report of the International Task Force on Trade, which was also presented to Annan at the ceremony, focuses on establishing a global partnership for development. It can be found online at http://unmp.forumone.com/eng_task_force/TradeEbook.pdf or on the YCSG website at www.ycsg.yale.edu. The Millennium Project's website is www.unmillenniumproject.org/html/about.shtm.
On Jan. 24, Zedillo assumed the chairmanship of the Global Development Network (GDN), a group of research and policy institutes that address problems of national and regional development.
The GDN supports multidisciplinary research in the social sciences for the purpose of development, promotes the generation of local knowledge in developing and transition countries, and builds research capacity to advance development and alleviate poverty. Because it is a network, the GDN can share research output, data and experiences across regions as well as to disseminate its findings to the public and to policymakers around the globe.
GDN also sponsors several activities that serve to unearth new talent, invest in human capital and advance development policies in developing and transition countries. These include offering grants for local and regional research; administering an international competition for the best research on development by researchers from developing and transition countries; supporting major projects involving research teams worldwide; and organizing international forums for exchanging ideas on sustainable development and poverty alleviation with special emphasis on research generated in the developing world.
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