• PROLOGUE James Gustave Speth: FOREWORD Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg and Marc A. Stern: INTRODUCTION CONCEPTS Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg and Marc A. Stern: Defining Global Public Goods, Todd Sandler: Intergenerational Public Goods: Strategies, Efficiency and Institutions Lisa L. Martin: The Political Economy of International Cooperation CASE STUDIES Equity and Justice J. Mohan Rao: Equity in a Global Public Goods Framework Ethan B. Kapstein: Distributive Justice as an International Public Good: A Historical Perspective Amartya Sen: Global Justice: Beyond International Equity Market Efficiency Nancy Birdsall and Robert Z. Lawrence: Deep Integration and Trade Agreements: Good for Developing Countries? Charles Wyplosz: International Financial Instability Environment and Cultural Heritage Scott Barrett: Montreal v. Kyoto: International Cooperation and the Global Environ-ment Geoffrey Heal: New Strategies for the Provision of Global Public Goods: Learning from International Environmental Challenges Ismail Serageldin: Cultural Heritage as Public Good: Economic Analysis Applied to Historic Cities Health Mark W. Zacher: Global Epidemiological Surveillance as a Public Good: International Cooperation to Monitor Infectious Diseases Lincoln C. Chen, Tim G. Evans and Richard A. Cash: Health As a Global Public Good Knowledge and Information Joseph E. Stiglitz: Knowledge as a Global Public Good J. Habib Sy: Global Communi-cations for a More Equitable World Debora L. Spar: The Public Face of Cyberspace Peace and Security David A. Hamburg and Jane E. Holl: Preventing Deadly Conflict: From Global Housekeeping to Neighborhood Watch Ruben P. Mendez: Peace as a Global Public Good Policy Implications Rajshri Jayaraman and Ravi Kanbur: International Public Goods and the Case for Foreign Aid Lisa D. Cook and Jeffrey Sachs: Regional Public Goods In International Assistance Conclusion Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg and Marc A. Stern: Global Public Goods: Concepts, Policies and Strategies Glossary compiled by Priya Gajraj: Further Reading About the Contributors Index

'Many common benifits such as law enforcement depend on the co-operation of national governments, not on supernational bodies, Jeffrey Sachs, one of the report's contributors. An the huge number of existing aid, health and envioromental charities can be relied on to help transfer costs and benifits, says Amartya Sen, last year's winner of the Nobel prize for economics, and moving spirit behind the report.' The Economist (UK) 8/5/1999