Aggregation in Global Governance: Making Use of Short-Cuts

... “Quad”, which was meant to represent the largest players as representatives of the developed and the developing world – China and India from the Global South and the US and the EU from the advanced economies. Another example is the IMF and the World Bank, where the votes of individual countries are aggregated into larger constituencies (chairs). In many cases the choice of the basis for the aggregation may appear to be arbitrary or based on outdated patterns. Basing the aggregation process ...