Acronyms, terms and conventions

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This nomenclature brings together the acronyms and the terms that this document itself coins. It is given at the front so that the reader never has to encounter an acronym before the body it designates. The acronyms are in English because the proposed institutions are intended to be adopted under those names.¶ 1

The architecture, known as the “7+3”. Seven single-mandate institutions, arranged along a single accountability chain — measure, rate, price, adjust, finance, certify, adjudicate — and three cross-cutting instruments that frame it. The 7+3 is the name of the candidate architecture developed here; it designates neither the theory nor its only possible instantiation (§1, §4.4).¶ 2

The seven institutions (§5). Each does a single thing, and is barred from the others.¶ 3

HuIB (Human Impacts Board) — measure. The measurement stratum: it produces the exposure and harm magnitudes; it neither rates nor prices (§5.2).¶ 4

GIRA (Global Impact Rating Authority) — rate. The rating stratum: it qualifies and ranks; it sets no monetary price (§5.3).¶ 5

GFEA (Global Financial Equity Authority) — price. The pricing authority: it attaches the financial consequence, through two distinct normative windows (correction, equity); it neither measures nor rates (§5.4).¶ 6

BFM (Border Fairness Mechanism) — adjust. The border adjustment layer: it applies the schedule settled upstream at the point of crossing; it produces no tax doctrine (§5.5).¶ 7

GSF (Global Solidarity Fund) — finance. The financing layer: it allocates; it neither taxes nor collects (§5.6).¶ 8

IPDA (Inter-Parliamentary Digital Authority) — certify. The democratic certification of digital systems (§5.7).¶ 9

Humanity Court — adjudicate. The jurisdictional layer: it settles challenges along the chain (§5.8).¶ 10

The Humanity Compact. Name of the intellectual and institutional initiative developed in this work; its central theoretical contribution is the Global Accountability Chain, of which the 7+3 architecture constitutes a first candidate instantiation. The term does not designate any particular legal instrument.¶ 11

The three instruments (§6). They bind by consent, never by the force of the text alone (principle P3).¶ 12

Global Accountability Framework (GAF). The binding instrument, which binds those who consent to it (§6).¶ 13

Carthage Charter. The Carthage Charter — the foundation of principles (§6).¶ 14

Call of Carthage. The Call of Carthage — the instrument of open accession (§6).¶ 15

PAL — Preventive Accountability Loop. A cross-cutting loop of prevention and alert, an exploratory extension of the framework (§15, Annex L).¶ 16

The spillover classes, S0 to S6 (Table 29, §9.7). Any qualification of a spillover places it in one of these seven classes, which govern the burden of proof and the consequence. Only two classes — S3 and S4 — can support a correction grounded in efficiency.¶ 17

S0. Pecuniary transfer — gains and losses offset one another; no distortion.¶ 18

S1. Friction in the recipient country — an instrument of the integrated framework was available to it.¶ 19

S2. Domestic externality under constrained instruments.¶ 20

S3. Uninternalised global loss — at least one Korinek condition failing.¶ 21

S4. Terms-of-trade externality — the source jurisdiction is not a price-taker.¶ 22

S5. No net loss demonstrated; incidence judged inequitable.¶ 23

S6. Breach of an applicable obligation.¶ 24

The nine design principles, P1 to P9 (§4.2). P1 complete the chain, at a minimum; P2 single mandates and negative mandates; P3 jurisdiction by consent; P4 non-substitution; P5 a single measurement stratum, and rating is not pricing; P6 non-circular budgets; P7 the pilot before the regime; P8 some things are not for sale; P9 do no harm — the architecture holds itself to its own standard.¶ 25

The research questions, RQ1 to RQ5 (§1), and the items of evidence, EP1 onwards (§1). The EPs designate the pieces of the supporting evidence pack that accompanies this document.¶ 26

Recurrent external acronyms. ¶ 27

BIS. Bank for International Settlements.¶ 28

CBAM. Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism of the European Union.¶ 29

UNCTAD. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.¶ 30

SDRs. Special drawing rights (International Monetary Fund).¶ 31

FACTI. United Nations Panel on Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity.¶ 32

IMF. International Monetary Fund.¶ 33

IPCC. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.¶ 34

OECD. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.¶ 35

ILO. International Labour Organization.¶ 36

WTO. World Trade Organization.¶ 37

LMICs. Low- and middle-income countries.¶ 38

npr-PPM. Non-product-related processes and production methods — processes and production methods not incorporated into the product. A decisive category of WTO law: see §5.5.¶ 39

PART I — THE MISSING LINK OF GLOBAL ACCOUNTABILITY¶ 40

This first part establishes the problem before proposing its solution: a fact — decisions cross borders — a gap — accountability stops at their threshold — and a diagnosis — the international system, dense though it is, does not connect its functions.¶ 41

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  title     = {Acronyms, terms and conventions},
  booktitle = {The Humanity Compact},
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A book by Nizar Yaïche, former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Tunisia. Who is the author?