A leading authority on international development, he has provided seminal insights into policy-making with a comparative view of the ways public and private organizations serve the needs of the poor. According to Virginia Straus, Executive Director of the Boston ResearchCenter for the 21st Century, The Global Citizen Award was created tocommemorate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations' founding. Its purpose is to honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the growthof civil society, both nationally and internationally. Its goal is to examine the full range of political, economic, educational, linguistic, and cultural policies governments have employed, how these policies have evolved over time, and assess their effectiveness. No existing study examines these issues from such a broad comparative perspective.
Plans are to commission chapters for the book by the end of the year.
The book will be published by MIT Press in early 1997. Larry Rosenberg, who developed PBRC's work in this field, willnow work at HIID under the UNEP contract. The book will also include a thorough annotated list of information sources about specific MSW topics that are available in each of six regions of the world. Environment and Competitiveness Project Under the sponsorship of the Board of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, PBRC's Danny Lam and John R. Watt have completed a report on environment and competitiveness. The study analyzes the five main international environmental agreements affecting trade and reviews policy options for Taiwan and other Asian countries.