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Dec 2009
8m 39s

Global Governance and Regulation - why?

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
About this episode
In this podcast, Ngaire Woods, Christina Ward and Jeni Whalen discuss the causes of the current recession and asks why governments, financial regulators and banks failed to act responsibly and how we can act now to prevent the next financial crisis. 
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