Welfare, Global Order, Environment, and Climate Change

This chapter provides an account of the author’s involvement in international considerations and discussions on issues regarding new challenges for the global economy in the twenty-first century, focusing on four topics: (1) the policy implications of population ageing in OECD countries, (2) the need to establish a new order for global economic governance, (3) peacepeace and economic prosperity in East Asia as a regional challenge of global concern, and (4) the domestic and international economic and social policy implications of climate change.