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Global Economic Governance

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Global finance; International economic governance; International trade

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Global Economic Governance can be defined as the international rule-based framework through which economic actors seek to resolve collective action problems and promote cross-border coordination and cooperation in the provision or exchange of goods, money, services, and technical expertise in defined issue areas of the world economy.

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Global governance is characterized with states’ and nonstate actors’ governance activities without global government. It involves the provision of government-like services – in particular the supply of public goods – at the international level. In the absence of global government, it is hard to effectively solve global problems in various issue areas. Yet calls for greater global governance have in fact been associated with an impressive series of attempts to provide government-like services at the global level (Frieden 2012: 1). Accordingly, global...

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Liu, H. (2018). Global Economic Governance. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2001-1

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