The US dollar reserve currency status has limited benefits, is one of the messages in the recent paper by McKinsey Global Institute: “An Exorbitant Privilege: Implications of reserve currencies for competitiveness.” The paper holds that these limited benefits will put growing pressure towards alternatives where the burdens of an international reserve currency can be more broadly shared.

RBW organizes an informal seminar for Executive Directors offices of the World Bank and IMF on the theme “The Global Financial Crisis and Trade.” The event is scheduled for March 5, 2010.

RBW Director speaks at a Public Forum “A Follow-Up to the United Nations Conference on the World Financial & Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development”, scheduled to take place on March 8, 2010, at the University of the District of DC.  

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.

The world only needs one "Bretton Woods II.", an article by Aldo Caliari published by Foreign Policy in Focus

Issue 133 of NGLS Roundup--  the newsletter of the Non-Governmental Liaison Service of the UN--  features an interview with RBW staff Aldo Caliari, addressing the role of UNCTAD in efforts to reform the international financial architecture. (Pages 5 and 6)

To download NGLS Roundup Issue 133 click here.