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Future Agenda for the G-20: Climate Change Implementation and Immigration
September 21, 2009
Uri Dadush at the Carnegie Endowment provides an excellent reader-friendly summary of the agenda and issues the G-20 leaders will face in Pittsburgh this week. His fourth of four challenges is for the leaders to develop a long-term agenda – and a long-term agenda implies ipso facto a development agenda.
He gives three examples: The leaders must adopt a set of principles on climate change and “as the Center for Global Development has proposed recently determine a division of labor among the various agencies.” They should initiate a process for WTO reform, including making the process more responsive to the needs of “groups of countries” (on that see Kim Elliott and Randy Soderquist’s proposal for how all the G-20 members, including the BRICs, could promote development by opening their markets to low-income countries). And they should develop a framework to govern international migration, including principles for negotiating worker mobility agreements – on those agreements see what Michael Clemens and Lant Pritchett have to say.
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September 25th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
All agreements on migration should be according to the democratic will of the citizens of the nation the migrants are crossing the borders of. If the citizens of that nation want no more migrants, migration ends then!