gpgNet intends to serve researchers, policymakers, business and civil society as a platform for information exchange and discussion, on issues concerning the theory, policy design and practice of providing global public goods.   What's new on the Knowledge Portal? Selected new research contributions. If you want to see more, click here. Politics of the Provision of Global Public Goods Levaggi, Rosella. 2009. "From Local to Global Public Goods: How Should Externalites be Represented?" Discussion Paper No. 0903. Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Universita degli Studi di Brescia, Italy. Financing of Global Public Goods Pantelis Kammas and Apostolis Philippopoulos. Forthcoming. "The Role of International Public Goods in Tax Cooperation." CESifo Economic Studies. Environment Morath, Florian. 2010. "Strategic Information Acquisition and the Mitigation of Global Warming." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 59(2):206-217. Health Szlezak, Nicole A., Barry R. Bloom, Dean T. Jamison, Gerald T. Keusch, Catherine M. Michaud, Suerie Moon, William C. Clark. 2010. "The Global Health System: Actors, Norms, and Expectations in Transition." PLOS Medicine 7(1):e1000183. Knowledge Ortiz, Rodomiro, Suketoshi Taba, Victor H. Chavez Tovar, Monica Mezzalama, Yunbi Xu, Jianbing Yan and Jonathan H. Crouch. 2010. "Conserving and Enhancing Maize Genetic Resources as Global Public Goods-A Perspective from CIMMYT." Crop Science 50:13-28. What are global public goods? And why are they important? If you want to know more about the concept of global public goods, click here.