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.

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.

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.  

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 views and activities at the World Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis in New York, June 24-26.

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.

Every day new figures on the impacts of the financial crisis reveal its depth and severity. Many observers concur that major reforms usually come after major catastrophes, so given the seriousness of the crisis, we may be about to witness a radical transformation of the international economic system. But, is that so? In this article especially commissioned by IslamOnline Aldo Caliari says there are more basis to side with the skeptics who forecast only cosmetic changes will be introduced (... unless the crisis gets much worse).