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Social Dimension of Globalization
 Social Cash Transfers: a Useful Instrument in Development Cooperation?
Susan Javad
Social Cash Transfers (SCTs) are becoming increasingly prominent in the international debate over development cooperation. Used intelligently, they can be an effective instrument with which to implement the human right to social security and at the same time stimulate economic growth and long-term development. The use of SCTs as an instrument in development cooperation must be assessed in a critical manner, however, and is associated with three risks: for the recipient countries there is a danger that democratic structures will be weakened. On the donor side, there is a question as to when such a programme can be phased out in a responsible manner. Generally speaking, it is necessary to find an adequate response to the claim that such programmes fight symptoms, while they do not tackle the root causes of problems.
Perspective, FES Berlin, April 2011
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The UN Social Protection Floor Initiatives:
Turning the Tide at the ILO Conference 2011
Michael Cichon, Veronika Wodsak and Christina Behrendt
For a long time, the international community has failed to give prominence to the Human Right to social security. While the quality of social security improved gradually for many workers in the formal economy worldwide, a large number of workers in the informal economy had been left without social security coverage even in countries witnessing persistent economic growth. The demonstration that a basic set of social security benefits is affordable, also for developing countries, first broke the spell that had beset the social security development debate. However, it took a global financial and economic crisis to push social security to the top of the international agenda, when social security systems were recognized as important economic stabilizers even by the G20.
FES International Policy Analysis, FES Berlin, January 2011
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Steps Out of the Global Development Crisis:
Towards an Agenda for Change ?
Jens Martens
The financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009 only reached the developing world with a time lag. At least in parts of the Global South the crisis is having a huge social and economic impact. As a result, the prospects of achieving the internationally agreed developing goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), by 2015 are receding ever more into distance. Therefore, the author argues, there is a need for a comprehensive global action agenda for change in order to combat what he sees as a global development crisis.
FES International Policy Analysis, Berlin, June 2010
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International Trade in Agriculture and the Right to Food
Olivier De Schutter
Deriving from the Right to Live, the Right to Food guarantees every human being to be free from hunger. Agricultural trade policy can help fulfilling this right, but may also become a hindrance, if conceived in neglect of human rights. States need to respect human rights obligations they have committed to by ratifying the respective Covenants when entering trade agreements. Based on the report of his mission to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter calls for a strengthening of the special role of agriculture in trade agreements to ensure their compatibility with the states obligation to fulfill their populations' Right to Food. In conclusion, he shows actual possibilities to reconcile trade policy with human rights requirements.
DoG Occasional Paper No. 46, FES Geneva, November 2009
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 Towards A Socially Responsible and Democratic Global Economic System:
Transparency, Accountability and Governance
Christopher Rude and Sara Burke
Beginning in the fall of 2008 under the aegis of the first G20 leaders meeting, national governments, central banks and international financial institutions organized themselves with blinding speed to rescue the global financial system. Unfortunately, reforms to increase transparency and accountability in the governance of these same financial institutions has not proceeded at a similarly urgent pace. This paper proposes principles for strengthening these reform efforts in order to move towards a more socially responsible and democratic global economic system.
DoG Briefing Paper No. 15, FES New York, November 2009
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Strenghtening Socuial Security in Economic Crises -
The Need for a Social Protection Floor
Ellen Ehmke, Mara Skaletz
As the global economic crisis has left millions of people without work, debate on the potentials of social security systems as a counter-balance has come back on national and international agendas. The UN is speeding up its efforts to help basic social security to become a forceful tool in the fight against poverty, particularly in the global South. The paper argues that a long-term investment in basic packages pays in fact back and helps alleviate the negative impacts of economic crises in a considerable way.
DoG Briefing Paper No. 14, FES Geneva, October 2009
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The Impact of Organized Crime on Democratic Governance -
Focus on Latin America and the Caribbean
Katharina Hofmann
The erosion of democratic governance due to organized crime is a growing problem in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since the exacerbation of the already endemic unequal distribution of income is a consequence of the financial crisis, it is expected that organized crime activities such as drug trafficking, human trafficking and arms trade will increase and extend in LAC. The international community has to offer solutions to stop the process of "organized crime penetration" of public and political institutions by tackling the phenomena on three fronts; the economic; the social and the political front that would require the implementation of new political concepts on the national, regional and global level.
DoG Briefing Paper No. 13, FES Berlin, September 2009
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Global trends in women's access to "decent work"
Maria S. Floro and Mieke Meurs
Maria S. Floro and Mieke Meurs argue that the changes in labor markets and labor relations, and the reduction of spending for social protection has worsened women’s access to decent work. Accordingly, women shoulder the double burden of paid and reproductive work - a drawback that could be solved by social policy that enables men and women to balance both their paid and reproductive work responsibilities.
DoG Occasional Paper No. 43, FES Berlin, June 2009
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Trade - a driving force for jobs and women's empowerment?
Focus on China and India
Christa Wichterich
Christa Wichterich counters the mainstream argument
that trade has the potential to be a driving force for jobs and for women’s empowerment. She presents evidence from China and India where past trade liberalization has distorted the labor market at the particular expense of women’s working conditions, opportunities for quality employment and social relations with regards to women’s dual burden as breadwinners and reproductive workers.
DoG Briefing Paper No. 7, FES Berlin, May 2009
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Financing for Development and the Reform of the Financial Architecture: A View from Latin America
Fabiola Mieres
Fabiola Mieres provides a Latin American perspective on development finance and the reform of the global financial architecture, and gives a quick overview of Latin American approaches to fight the financial crisis. She stresses that Latin American countries have to be incorporated in international decision making mechanisms. Furthermore, the author suggests to strengthen regional development banks, to regulate the international financial markets and to give more political space to Latin American countries to design proper public policy so that they can “take the bull by the horns” in fighting the economic crisis and assuring long term development.
DoG Briefing Paper No. 5, FES Berlin, April 2009
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A new era of world hunger? The global food crisis analyzed
James A. Paul and Katarina Wahlberg
This paper takes as a starting point an international conference, held in New York in April 2008, organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Global Policy Forum. Paul and Wahlberg consider the right to food and analyze the role of the United Nations in responding to the global food crisis. They argue for effective short-term aid and long-term transformation of the agricultural system to make it more justly distributive, resilient, and sustainable for the future.
Briefing Paper 7-2008, FES New York, August 2008
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 Moving Beyond the Privatization Debate
Different Approaches to Financing Water and Electricity in Developing Countries
Daniel Platz and Frank Schroeder
Whether or not to privatize essential services in developing countries has been subject to
a long and heated controversy. Platz and Schröder provide a new perspective and try to overcome the ideological tug of war. Rather than asking "who should provide the services", the authors adopt a financing point of view and look at how access to basic utilities for all can be funded in a sustainable manner.
Occasional Paper 34 | 2007, FES New York, September 2007
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Growth with responsibility in a globalized world : findings of the Shadow G-8
Joseph E. Stiglitz ; Stephany Griffith-Jones
Occasional paper 31 - FES New York, May 2007
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Beyond the divide : the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights and the World Trade Organization
Robert Howse and Ruti G. Teitel
Occasional Paper 30, FES Geneva, April 2007
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New Powers for global change?
 Challenges for International Development Cooperation:
The Case of China
Katharina Hofmann
FES Briefing Paper 15, FES Berlin, November 2006
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From Concept to Reality
On the present state of the debate on international taxes
Peter Wahl
FES Briefing Papers, FES Berlin, June 2006
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Engendering Policy Coherence for Development Gender issues for the global policy agenda in the year 2005
Maria Floro and Hella Hoppe
FES Occasional Paper, N° 17, FES Berlin, April 2005
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Social Standards in Bilateral and Regional Trade and Investment Agreements
Thomas Greven
FES Occasional Paper, N° 16, FES Geneva, March 2005
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Shaping Globalization – Developing a European Social Order
Walter Riester und Sascha Raabe
FES Briefing Paper, FES Berlin, March 2005
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Labour Standards and Trade Preferences in Sri Lanka
Esther Busser
FES Briefing Paper, FES Sri Lanka, March 2005
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The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. An Issues Paper
Gert Rosenthal
FES Occasional Paper, N° 15, FES New York, February 2005
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Globalisierung gestalten - europäische Sozialordnung entwickeln
Walter Riester und Sascha Raabe
FES Briefing Paper, FES Berlin, Februar 2005
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Die Verankerung von Arbeitnehmerrechten in bilateralen und regionalen Handels- und Investitionsabkommen
Thomas Greven
FES Briefing Paper, FES Geneva, February 2005
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Workers' Tool or PR ploy? A guide to codes of international labour practice
Ingeborg Wick
Dialogue on Globalization, FES Berlin, 2003,
3rd revised edition
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The International Labour Organization: Can it Deliver the Social Dimension of Globalization?
Katherine A. Hagen
FES Occasional Paper, N° 11, FES Geneva, October 2003
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Policy Dialogue between the International Labour Organization and the International Financial Institutions: The Search for Convergence
Katherine A. Hagen
FES Occasional Paper, FES Geneva, October 2003
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Privatisation of Water Supply
Eric Teo Chu Cheow
FES Occasional Paper, N° 8, FES Geneva, July 2003
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