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CIDSE demands "stimulus package" for the Millennium Development Goals (July 2010)

By: CIDSE

In the lead up to the MDG Review Summit 2010, to be held in September 2010, CIDSE releases a position paper that calls on leaders to agree on a "stimulus package" for the MDGs.

 

Assessing Regulatory Impacts on Banking Supervision and Credit Rating Agencies (April 2010)

By: Aldo Caliari

A new article by Aldo Caliari,  "Assessing Global Regulatory Impacts of the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Meltdown: International Banking Supervision and the Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies" is now available. The article has been recently published in academic journal Transational Law and Contemporary Problems, of the University of Iowa (Volume 19, Issue 1, Winter 2010).

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Human Rights Principles raised in Financing for Development Follow up meeting (March 2010)

In a statement on the occasion of the Special High Level Meeting of ECOSOC with the Bretton Woods Institutions, the WTO and UNCTAD in follow up to Financing for Development, ESCR-Net delivers a statement on that human rights principles should lie at the heart of the processes to reform the international monetary, financial and trading system.

Financial Transaction Taxes: Their Role in Financing Development (March 2010)

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RBW contributes to statement on Illicit Capital Flows and Human Rights (January 2010)

In early December 2009, a meeting of human rights and financial transparency organizations at Yale University discussed the link between illicit financial practices, secrecy in global finance and their adverse impact on human rights. The New Haven "Declaration on Human Rights and Financial Integrity" was adopted as a result.

IMF backtracks on constraints to trade-led development –but how much? (October 2009)

By: Aldo Caliari

Over the summer, the IMF revised its Guidance Note for implementing Bilateral Surveillance of Members. The changes respond to some criticisms about the 2007 Decision on Bilateral Surveillance. But how much do such changes really achieve? is a question that this article tries to answer.

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.  

Book: Trade-Finance Linkages for Promoting Development (August 2009)

By: Aldo Caliari and Vice Yu

An integrated approach that links trade, debt and finance policy is essential for domestic and international economic policies to adequately support national development strategies, especially in developing countries. This publication, edited by Mr. Aldo Caliari and Mr. Vicente Paolo Yu III, takes a first approach to what such integrated approach would entail in practice. It gathers the proceedings of the First  Policy Roundtable on Trade-Finance Linkages for Promoting Development, co-organized by Center of Concern, South Centre and the German Marshall Fund of the US, in Geneva, 2006. 

 

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.

 


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