Focus Areas

Open society is both a means and end of development. It is needed to ensure that markets are governed by efficient and equitably applied laws, and to ensure that government is transparent, accountable, and responsive to the public interest.

In keeping with these values, the Globalization Reform Project (GRP) promoted policies to make globalization more inclusive, democratic, and economically stable. Through advocacy and analysis, the GRP fostered economic development that benefits the world's most disadvantaged populations. To this end, GRP:

• supported initiatives to reduce corruption and enhance policy accountability between people and their governments in developing nations;
• supported initiatives to improve the flow of development assistance and financial capital to developing countries;
• encouraged new institutional arrangements to increase poor people's access to cheap credit; and
• promoted policies to enhance equality of economic opportunity through improved education and health care, and through creation of employment opportunities consistent with the International Labor Organization's notion of "decent work."