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Have IMF / World Bank policies constrained the fight against HIV/AIDS? (February 2010)

Have IMF and World Bank Policies Constrained Domestic Responses to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Developing Countries?

WHEN : Tuesday, February 23rd from 3pm to 5pm
WHERE : Building I-200 (1850 I Street, NW)

International Taxes on Financial Transactions: CIDSE Position Paper (December 2009)

By: CIDSE

Given the current political dynamics and the momentum around the introduction of financial transaction taxation (FTT), the Resources for Development Working Group has released a paper on the Financial Transaction Tax.

Bank size measures aim to limit impact of bank failures (January 2010)

By: Aldo Caliari

In a letter appeared on the Financial Times (January 26 edition) Aldo Caliari says criticism of the recently announced White House measures to limit the size and scope of banks misses the point.

Financial sector should pay for costs of the crisis, say CSOs (November 2009)

Center of Concern joins the 16 members of CIDSE, the transatlantic network of Catholic development agencies, to demand that the financial sector bears its fair share of the burden of the crisis.

Transatlantic faith-based network addresses demands to G20 leaders (September 2009)

A letter sent by International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity Network (CIDSE), a transatlantic network of faith-based development agencies of which Center of Concern is a member, addresses demands to the US and European country members of the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh.  

G8 meeting: Will the poor be abandoned? (July 2009)

By: Dennis Sadowski

As the participants in the Group of Eight summit gathered in L'Aquila, Italy, July 8-10, the economic crisis gripping the world was getting lots of attention. In this interview for Catholic News Service, Aldo Caliari speaks about what can be expected from the G8 meeting, and how it relates to the recently held UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis.

 

Conference outcome endorses UN role in global financial reform (June 2009)

By: Aldo Caliari

 

Under the auspices of the UN, governments from all the world meeting in New York last week adopted what is the first, and so far only, global consensus on a response to the global financial crisis.

Media reports on Center of Concern and CIDSE activities at Financial Crisis Summit (June 2009)

Media reports on Center of Concern and CIDSE views and activities at the World Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis in New York, June 24-26.

Will UN's dominance break G8's dominance? (June 2009)

By: Aldo Caliari

In an article commissioned by Islam Online, Aldo Caliari argues that, for years, "big-picture" reforms of the global financial and monetary system were believed to be the province of rich countries, through exclusive gatherings such as the Group of 7 or 8 and their unquestionable dominance of the international financial institutions. Now that is beginning to change.

 

A lat to worry about (June 2009)

Center of Concern staff Aldo Caliari is quoted in this analytical article appeared on the Financial Times, June 17 2009.


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