TY - GEN AU - Gerrard, Christopher D. (Ed.) AU - Gerrard, Christopher D., 1951- AU - Ferroni, Marco A., 1948- AU - Mody, Ashoka. TI - Global public policies and programs: : implications for financing and evaluation: SN - 9780821349526 PY - 2001/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - The World Bank KW - World Bank KW - Congresses KW - International Monetary Fund KW - Economic assistance KW - Planning KW - Technical assistance KW - Environmental policy KW - International cooperation KW - Medical assistance KW - Educational assistance N1 - Partt I: Keynote address -- Financing international public goods: a historical overview and new challenges -- Floor discussion -- Part II: Panel discussion -- Six reasons for a global public goods perspective on development -- The intersection of development assistance and international public goods -- Walking the talk: global public policy in action -- Floor discussion -- Part III: Environmental issues -- A water-secure world -- Floor discussion -- The prototype carbon fund: mobilizing private and public resources to combat climate change -- Discussion: the carbon fund in the bigger picture -- The world commission on dams: lessons learned about setting global standards -- Floor discussion -- Part IV: Health issues -- Creating markets for new vaccines -- WHO, Global Public Goods, and Health Research and Development -- Floor discussion -- Part V: Knowledge issues -- Lessons from the CGIAR: a perspective from the South -- Knowledge and global public goods: implications of the WTO's TRIPS agreement -- The CGIAR at a crossroads? -- Reforming the intellectual property rights system -- Floor discussion -- Part VI: Economic and financial governance -- Global financial stability: recent achievements and ongoing challenges -- Promoting financial stability as a global public good -- Renovating the world's financial architecture -- Floor discussion -- Part VII: Implications for financing global public goods -- Financing global and international public goods -- Financing global public goods -- Global public goods and official development assistance -- Floor discussion -- Part VIII: Implications for evaluating global public policies and programs -- Evaluating global public policies and programs -- Participatory or bottom-up evaluations: preventing global public goods from becoming club goods -- Important questions for evaluation -- Floor discussion N2 - This book is based on a global public policies and programs workshop held in July 2000. The papers examine conceptual issues along with the practical implementation problems of global public policies and programs. Some of the topics covered in this book are global financial instability, the implications of intellectual property rights protection for developing countries, and the promotion of international agricultural research. - From the Book ER -