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SPECIAL INAUGURAL MEETING

NEW RULES FOR GLOBAL FINANCE COALITION, INC.

 

May 17, 2006

 

Special Inaugural meeting Meeting Agenda Participants PowerPoint New Rules Members Board Candidate Bios

 

 

Meeting Report from New Rules Special Inaugural Meeting

 

Appendices:

A: List of Members as of May 17, 2006

B: New Rules Activities

C: Final Recommendations from FFD Consultations

D: Project Description - Democratic Governance and Parliamentary Oversight (DGPO) Project

E: Board Candidate Bios

F: Proposals Received for Discussion

 


 

APPENDIX B: New Rules Activities

 

2006

 

May 17, 2006 - Special Inaugural Meeting of the New Rules for Global Finance Corporation Inc. (Washington, DC, USA).

April 22, 2006 - Enhancing Democratic Governance and Parliament Oversight of the International Financial Institutions (Washington, DC, USA) 

April 20-21, 2006 - ECOSOC Agenda highlighted at the 2006 Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank (Washington, DC, USA). 4 panels

April 5, 2006 - New Rules Meeting + Presentation and Discussion on IMF Reform with Ralph Bryant, Brookings Institution (Washington, DC, USA)

April 4-5, 2006 – Jo Marie Griesgraber participated in the informal Preparatory Meeting of the High-level Segment of ECOSOC. (New York, NY, USA)

March 30, 2006 - Presentation and Launch of "Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System" (World Bank InfoCenter, Washington, DC, USA)   Watch the video of this event.

March 17, 2006 - Panel Discussion on Fiscal Space and National Development Strategies (United Nations, New York, NY, USA)

March 16, 2006 - Public Presentation of Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations on Policies and Methodologies of 5 Case Studies on Poverty and Social Impact Assessments. (Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, USA)

March 13-16, 2006 - Workshop on “Experiences with Ex-ante Poverty Impact Assessments of Macroeconomic Policies in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ghana, the Philippines, and Nepal” (Washington, DC, USA)

March 2-3, 2006 - Planning Meeting on "Enhancing Democratic Governance and Parliamentary Oversight of the International Financial Institutions" (Washington, DC, USA)

March 2, 2006 - Book Discussion of Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System (Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC, USA)

January 11, 2006 - New Rules Seminar by Randall Dodd: Twilight of Free Trade Idols: Hammering Smith, Ricardo, Heckscher-Ohlin, and Samuelson (Washington, DC, USA)

 

2005

 

November 8, 2005 - FFD Collaboration: Review and Strategy Meeting (Washington, DC, USA)

August 29-31, 2005 - New Rules Multi-stakeholder Consultation on Systemic Issues (New Delhi, India)

June 9, 2005 - Presentation of "Analysing Macro-Poverty Linkages” Featured in a Special Theme Issue of the Development Policy Review (IFPRI, Washington, DC, USA)

June 3, 2005 - NGO Roundtable on G-8/20 Summit Reform (Washington, DC, USA)

May 18-19, 2005 - New Rules Multi-stakeholder Consultation on Systemic Issues (New York, NY)

March 30-31, 2005 - New Rules Multi-stakeholder Consultation on Systemic Issues (Nairobi, Kenya

March 29, 2005 - Public Forum at the New Rules Multi-stakeholder Consultation on Systemic Issues (Nairobi, Kenya)

February 17-18, 2005 - New Rules Multi-stakeholder Consultation on Systemic Issues (Lima, Peru)

February 16, 2005- OPEN FORUM:  The Future of Development Financing:  Challenges and Strategic Choices. (Lima Peru)

January 19, 2005- IFI Democracy Meeting (Washington, DC, USA)

 

2004

 

November 16-17, 2004 - New Rules Multi-stakeholder Consultation on Systemic Issues (Washington, DC, USA)

October 4, 2004 - IFI Democracy Meeting (Washington, DC, USA)

June 8, 2004 - Book Launch: Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manuel (Washington, DC, USA)

April 23, 2004 - Panel Discussion on Voice and Vote of Developing and Emerging Countries on the boards of the World Bank and IMF, (IMF, Washington, DC, USA)

April 1, 2004 - New Rules discussion of GATS and Financial Regulations with J.Trachtman, Tufts Law School (Brookings, Washington, DC, USA)

April 1, 2004 - New Rules Event: The Process of Selecting the IMF Managing Director: IMF Legitimacy in Question? (Washington, DC, USA)

January 29, 2004 - New Rules Meeting on Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) (IMF, Washington, DC, USA)

January 21, 2004 - New Rules Book release party for "Debating the Tobin Tax" (Washington, DC, USA)

 

2003

 

December 17, 2003 - Book Launch "Challenges to the IMF and World Bank: Developing Country Perspectives" (Washington, DC, USA)

December 10, 2003 - Meeting on International Human Rights Day to discuss the Millennium Development Goals (Washington, DC, USA)

October 14-15, 2003 - International Workshop: Tools for the Exante Poverty Impact Assessment of Macroeconomic Policies (Washington, DC, USA)

September 12, 2003 – Book Launch and Happy Hour with Michael Edwards author of Future Positive (Washington, DC, USA)

September 5, 2003 - Democracy and Development: Proposals for IMF and World Bank Reform (Washington, DC, USA)

April 14, 2003 - Update on IMF Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) (Washington, DC, USA)

March 24, 2003 - A New ‘Voting Rights’ Act for the IMF and the World Bank? A panel discussion on new proposals for governance reform (Washington, DC, USA)

March 20, 2003 - ECOSOC hearings with NGOs (FfD Follow-up) in preparation for the UN ECOSOC Meeting with the WTO and BWIs (New York, NY, USA)

March 18, 2003 - New Rules Meeting with President of Coordination Sud (Washington, DC, USA)

 

2002

 

September 26, 2002 - Debate on Sovereign Debt Workout Mechanisms (Washington, DC, USA)

May 23-24, 2002 - After Neoliberalism Conference (Washington, DC, USA)

 

 

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