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Global Governance and the Need for Change: Highlights and Policy Recommendations By Mariarosaria Iorio International Policy Analyst

The Global Governance Context The current financial crisis has impacted the real economy worldwide. Such a global crisis has both international and national dimensions. The international dimension relates, in my view, to the global governance regime . The national dimension relates to national public choices and policies. As it concerns the global governance regime’s failure to materialize equitable and improvement of people’s living standards worldwide, it is worth recalling that such regime results from both historical and political factors….

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Health Services: Public or tradable services? By Mariarosaria Iorio, International Political Analyst

Winners from the neo-liberal credo, mostly corporations and multinationals succeeded in propagating the idea that the market needs little or no regulation as it can regulate itself through the Invisible Hand . According to this vision of the world, global wealth would automatically cascade to the vulnerable groups, including women through the opportunities provided by the market. The adoption and the implementation of this neo-liberal credo limited governments’ policy space both locally and globally. As a result, governments reduced…

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