Full name and acronym: Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (YCSG), Yale University

Founding date: September 1, 2001

Mission: The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization is devoted to examining the impact of our increasingly integrated world on individuals, communities, and nations. Globalization presents challenges and opportunities. The Center's purpose is to support the creation and dissemination of ideas for seizing the opportunities and overcoming the challenges. It shall be particularly focused on practical policies to enable the world's poorest and weakest citizens to share in the benefits brought by globalization. It will also explore solutions to problems that, even if they do not result directly from integration, are global in nature, and can therefore be effectively addressed only through international cooperation.

The Center will draw on the rich intellectual resources of the Yale community, scholars from other universities, and experts from around the world. On campus, it will support teaching and research on the many facets of globalization. It will help enrich debate on globalization through workshops, conferences, and publications. Also to this end, the Center will publish the YaleGlobal online magazine. Off campus, the Center will further its mission through collaboration with a variety of institutions across the globe.

Projects and Collaborations:

• International Task Force on Trade and Finance: The Center spearheads an international Task Force on Trade and Finance, one of the components of the Millennium Development Project chaired by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and carried out under the overall guidance of Secretary-General Kofi Annan and United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Mark Malloch Brown. The Project is tasked to devise the best strategies for meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) set out in 2000 and adopted by all 189 members of the United Nations. The Trade and Finance Task Force's mandate is to study further development of an open, rule-based predictable, non-discriminatory international trading and financial system. The Task Force produced an Interim Report in the spring of 2004 and a Final Report in December of 2004.
• Commission on the Private Sector and Development: This commission was launched by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and convened by the United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Mark Malloch Brown. Mr. Zedillo co-chaired the Commission with Mr. Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada. The high-level Commission was created to develop strategic recommendations on how to promote strong domestic private sectors in the developing world. The Commission report, presented to the Secretary-General on March 1, analyzed the domestic and international factors handicapping domestic enterprises and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises—the main engine of job wealth and creation in the developing world. The Commission's recommendations are to be followed by pilot programs in a number of countries.
• International Task Force on Global Public Goods: This Task Force was convened by the governments of Sweden and France. The members of the Task Force are charged with reviewing how shared global concerns can be addressed more effectively. A Secretariat in Stockholm supports the group. The purpose of the Task Force is to broaden the understanding of global public goods and their significance, and to provide recommendations that address gaps in their provision as well as opportunities for enhanced provision. The target areas being addressed by the Task Force are peace and security, trade regimes, financial stability, control of communicable diseases, knowledge, and sustainable management of natural commons.

The YCSG plans to focus on the following core issues over the next few years:

• Global governance for peace and security
• Foreign policy role of key international players
• Global economic governance
• International cooperation for development
• Strengthening the multilateral trading system
• International cooperation for protecting shared environmental resources
• Global health issues
• Key factors for inclusion in globalization
• Extracting lessons from national or regional experiences

Outputs: The Center's most significant output is YaleGlobal Online (http://www.yaleglobal.yale.edu), YCSG's flagship publication by which we multiply the effects of the internal and external dimensions of our program and bridge the gap between the academy and the world of public policy. This global multimedia instrument disseminates information about globalization to an audience much wider than that of the specialist. It is through YaleGlobal that we contribute to the general intellectual enterprise of understanding globalization.

YaleGlobal publishes three original articles every week, authored by world leaders, major foreign policy figures, first-rate scholars and well-known writers, as well as Yale faculty. Articles written by individuals living in other parts of the world and by those whose primary language is not English are also frequent. YaleGlobal also republishes five or six articles from other publications every working day of the week. These articles are selected from newspapers around the world. Archived permanently on the YaleGlobal site, the searchable articles and analytical blurbs (already totalling over 1,000), constitute a valuable source for researchers.

In its first year, YaleGlobal received over 7,000,000 hits from over 120 countries around the world. Pageview totals reached almost 1,000,000. YaleGlobal articles have been reprinted in newspapers and online magazines nearly 300 times over the past year, sometimes in translation. As an educational tool, the site has been used in classrooms of universities and secondary schools, and has been linked as an educational resource to over a dozen university sites in the U.S. and Europe. Its essays and PowerPoint presentations are used in syllabi in universities around the world.

Staff: The YCSG staff numbers six full-time professionals and 10 to 14 student interns.

Director: Ernesto Zedillo

Funding: The YCSG currently has grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, receives funding from the UNDP for the Trade project, and has received some generous gifts from Yale University alumni.

Street Address: Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Betts House, 393 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA

tel: ++1 203 432-1900

fax: ++1 203 432-1200

email: globalization@yale.edu

website: http://www.ycsg.yale.edu