Gallagher and Kozul-Wright Call for Reform of Global Economic System
In a new openDemocracy op-ed, Kevin Gallagher – Interim Dean of Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Professor of Global Development Policy at the Pardee School, and Director of BU’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) – and Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, argue for the reformation of the global economic system to tackle unmet global challenges.
In the article, titled “We need a new Bretton Woods – but this time it must be truly inclusive,” Gallagher and Kozul-Wright echo the arguments laid out in their latest book, The Case for a New Bretton Woods. The two offer a roadmap to transforming the global economic system, which in turn would reduce deep-seated inequalities and also help meet United Nations sustainable development goals. As the authors state, “achieving those [common] goals requires a set of shared principles and effective mechanisms that can help mobilize resources and coordinate policies across countries with widely differing state and private sector capacities.”
The full article can be read on openDemocracy‘s website.
Kevin Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he directs the Global Development Policy Center. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including most recently, The Case for a New Bretton Woods (Wiley, 2022). Read more about Professor Gallagher on his Pardee School faculty profile.