RBW Director Aldo Caliari assesses the outcomes of the Group of 20 Summit in Toronto (June 26-27, 2010).

In the lead up to the September 2010 MDG Summit, an event in the occasion of the ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum 2010 queries the role that human rights obligations should play in the formulation and implementation of international development goals.

On June 15, speaking at the Informal Interactive Hearings with NGOs, Civil Society and the Private Sector on the Millennium Development Goals, RBW Director Aldo Caliari, delivered a statement. The Hearings were held in preparation for the MDG High Level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals, at the UN Headquarters in New York.

This volume, co-published by Center of Concern and the Sistema Economico Latinoamericano y del Caribe (SELA), gathers selected presentations delivered at a consultation with Ministers and senior officials from governments of the Latin America/ Caribbean region.

In a recent report, a European commission staff working document “Innovative Financing at a Global Level,” dismisses Financial Transaction Taxes. Below a response by CIDSE to the European Commission's report. 

A new book co-published by Center of Concern and South Centre argues that, as the crisis exposes the fault lines in the current paradigm that links international trading and public debt, only crisis recovery measures that dare to reshape such paradigm on the basis of the lessons learned can lead to a more resilient and development-oriented global economy.