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These The main question is: how far to go down specify the terms of reference, obli- along the continuum from global to local gations and rights of the national and activities in defining what constitutes the local entities involved in the actual core element of the global public good production and consumption of a delivery system? The answer to this global public good. [...] institutions and partnerships, financing mechanisms, and operational policies Alternatively, a decision may be made and procedures are required at the in- that the core component of the global ternational level to facilitate the genera- public good should incorporate the or- tion of the global public good; and that ganization and financing of the means to all of the preceding arrangements would de. [...] The framework applies primarily Even with all the problems of definition to the financing of the core component and of obtaining accurate figures, there of a global public good, and to a lesser is no doubt that increased resources extent to the regional, national and local have been allocated over the last decade activities (complementary component) of the twentieth century to what have be- linked. [...] A cursory glance at the Framework for Strategic Choices prepared at the end of the 1980s, when the developing countries’ debt crisis, the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of environmental con- cerns coincided with a major reorganization of the World Bank, suggests the persistence of long-standing development concerns (World Bank, “A Framework for Strategic Choices”). [...] Merton award of the International Sociological Association, created to honor the memory of the pioneer of the sociology of science; and the Edgardo Habich award, created in honor of the founder of the National Engineering School of Peru in the 1870s.