GDP Center Issues ‘Call for Papers’ at Journal of Globalization and Development
The Journal of Globalization and Development is edited by GDP Center director Kevin P. Gallagher, GDP Center non-resident fellow Jeronim Capaldo, as well as Joseph Stiglitz and Jose Antonio Ocampo from Columbia University and Dani Rodrik from Harvard University. The journal has just issued a call for papers for three special issues on: trade treaties and access to medicines, reforming the global financial safety net, and global imbalances.
Topic #1
1. Trade and Investment Rules and Access to Medicines in Developing Countries
As the world is experiencing the COVID-19 crisis, there is a renewed concern about the extent to which the international trade and investment treaty regime is strategically compatible with the need to facilitate access to medicines and other essential health care products such as diagnostics to low and middle income countries.
To accelerate knowledge in this area, The Journal of Globalization and Development seeks rigorous academic papers on the trade and investment treaty regime and access to medicines and other essential health products in low- and middle-income countries in a post COVID-19 world. Topics may include, but are not limited to, ex-post or ex-ante assessments of the impacts of trade and investment treaties on access to health-related products, intellectual property provisions, impacts of sanitary and phytosanitary standards as they pertain to health, research and development of new therapies and health technologies, emergency measures for pandemics, and/or the political economy of low- and middle income country policy response and strategy at the national level or in negotiations.
Rigorous policy papers within the fields of economics, political science, law, and public health among others will be considered that propose policy reform to particular aspects of the regime in order to make it more conducive to advancing access to medicines and other essential health care products in a post COVID-19 world. The journal specifically encourages contributions from first authors who reside in low- and middle-income countries and underrepresented scholars[1] in high-income countries.
Interested authors should send papers to the journal’s Scholar One portal by no later than July 1, 2020. A select group of these papers may be eligible to be part of a global symposium on this topic in December of 2020.
Topic #2
2. Assessing the Global Financial Safety Net in an age of Financial Instability, Global Pandemics, and Climate Change
As the world is experiencing the COVID-19 and entering a global financial crisis, there is a renewed concern about the adequacy and efficacy of the global financial safety net (GFSN)–consisting of national policies, bilateral central bank swap arrangements, and regional financial arrangements (RFAs), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
To accelerate knowledge building in this area, The Journal of Globalization and Development seeks rigorous academic papers on the various aspects of the GFSN as they pertain to emerging market and developing countries. Topics may include, but are not limited to, taming volatile capital flows, spillovers from advanced economies, examinations of RFAs, climate change, pandemics, the impacts of various IMF programs and debt workout mechanisms.
Rigorous policy papers will also be considered that propose reform to particular aspects of the regime in order to make it more conducive to advancing stability and growth in a post COVID-19 world. The journal encourages contributions on this topic from a variety of perspectives, including but not limited to economics, statistics, political economy, political science, history, law, and public health scholarship. The journal specifically encourages contributions from first authors who reside in low- and middle-income countries and underrepresented scholars[1] in high-income countries.
Interested authors should send papers to the journal’s Scholar One portal by July 1, 2020. A select group of these papers may be eligible to be part of a global symposium on this topic in October of 2020.
Topic #3
3. Is It The End of the Neoliberal Moment? Global Imbalances and Prospects for Development in a social, environmental and public health crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the looming global recession are pushing the development challenge and the need to manage global imbalances down advanced countries’ priority lists. But global imbalances highlight inconsistencies between countries’ growth strategies and options to harmonize policies for income distribution, industrialization and structural change as well as climate stabilization in both developed and developing economies.
To accelerate knowledge building in this area, The Journal of Globalization and Development seeks rigorous academic papers on the various aspects of global imbalances as they pertain to developed, developing and emerging economies. Topics may include, but are not limited to, trade imbalance, net borrowing flows, inter-sectoral dynamics of income and employment, trade dynamics and carbon emissions.
Rigorous policy papers will also be considered that propose specific reform of international coordination mechanisms in order to make global imbalances more conducive to economic stability and development a post COVID-19 world. The journal encourages contributions on this topic from a variety of perspectives, including but not limited to economics, statistics, political economy, political science, history, law, and public health scholarship. The journal specifically encourages contributions from first authors who reside in low- and middle-income countries and underrepresented scholars in high-income countries.
Interested authors should send papers to the journal’s Scholar One portal by September 1, 2020. A select group of these papers may be eligible to be part of a global symposium on this topic in early 2021.
[1] including African American, Latinx, American Indian, first-generation, or sexual or gender minority individuals and individuals with disabilities
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