MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK

Abstract

My list of those to whom I am indebted for my understanding of globalization has grown much longer over the past four years since writing Globalization and Its Discontents. In addition to those at the international economic institutions, and especially the World Bank, that I noted in that book, I now need to add Nick Stern and François Bourguignon, who succeeded me as chief economists at the World Bank and with whom I have continued to engage in discussions about the development process. I'd like to thank Supachai Panitchpakdi, former head of the World Trade Organization, with whom I have had innumerable discussions concerning the direction of the development round; Leif Pagrotsky, Sweden's education minister, who was at the forefront of arguing for a fairer trade regime when he served as Sweden's trade minister; Pascal Lamy, formerly EU commissioner for trade (now head of the WTO), especially for discussions on the Everything But Arms initiative; Kemal Dervis, with whom I worked closely at the World Bank, and who has now become head of the UNDP; and Juan Somavia, head of the ILO, who convened the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, whose report represents an important landmark in the changing perspectives on globalization.