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.

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

In a Financial Times letter to the editor, Aldo Caliari explains what are the likely reasons why the UK Government has preferred to keep rather quiet about its new guests to the Groupf of 20 Summit scheduled to take place in London, April 2 2009.

In this letter, appeared in the Financial Times edition of November 12, 2008, Aldo Caliari argues that the low level of ambition for the upcoming financial summit of G20 members in Washington DC should not be a surprise. Unless a much more inclusive approach is followed, giving an institutional platform for the voice of all developing countries, it is unrealistic to expect much more.

"WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (IPS) - An independent review of the International Monetary Fund's operations in Africa says the lender's work is
confused, vague, lacks transparency and suffers from a large gap between rhetoric and practice."

Letter to the Financial Times commenting on the World Bank's evaluation of trade assistance.

In a letter to the editor published by the Financial Times,  Aldo Caliari argues that self-insurance by developing countries, rather than an ideal situation, is a product of the incompetence of the International Monetary Fund in providing a more efficient mechanism for this purpose.

Center of Concern staff quoted in "NGOs ready to flex new muscles at world trade talks", an article released by news agency Reuters on November 2005.

In a letter to the editor appeared on the October 12 issue of the Financial Times lAdo Caliari says, “Poor-country concerns about the "aid for trade" plan are warranted ("Poorest WTO countries attack 'aid for trade' plan", October 12)”

Coming up hard on the G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland over July 7-8, 2005, Aldo Caliari, Director of the Center's Rethinking Bretton Woods Project, writes to The Financial Times, "In trying to assert its leadership on the debt cancellation question the US government has gone to great lengths. One would have hoped the government would have also wanted to be seen as the first, not the last, to withdraw its support for an economic model that has failed to promote growth in the developing world and, crucially, the poorest countries in need for debt relief. "