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GEI Newsletter Issue 9
Contents
IMF Meets Civil Society
Jan Aart Scholte
Conference on
World Capital Markets and Financial Crises
Eric Le Borgne &
Pongsak Luangaram
The Global Economic Institutions (GEI) Research Programme is a research programme funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of Great Britain, which began in 1994 and runs until late in 1999. The purpose of the Programme has been to study how existing global economic institutions and regimes operate, how they might be improved, and whether new institutions are needed.
Research in the Programme has focused on the future of the Bretton Woods Instituions (the IMF and the World Bank); on the World Trade Organisation and the future of World trade regime; on regionalism in global trading arrangements, on international standards-setting regimes, international macroeconomic policy coordination; international regulation of global financial markets, and the governance and internal organisation of global economic institutions: how they differ, how they respond to external pressures, and how they might be reformed.
The programme has included sixteen research projects which are listed on page four of this newsletter. A number of working papers have been published, and abstracts of two forthcoming ones are to be found on page ten. The Programme will be holding a final series of meetings later on during this year. These are also described on page ten.
Further information about the programme can be obtained at http://www.cepr.org/gei.htm. An information pack containing details of the research projects in the Programme; past issues of this newsletter; and information on Programme workshops and meetings is available from the Director of the Programme at the address at the top of this page; or from the GEI Coordinator, CEPR, 90-98 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7RR, UK, tel: +44 20 7878 2900; fax:+ 44 20 7878 2999