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Background Papers
FFD MULTI-STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATIONS ON SYSTEMIC ISSUES
February 17-18, 2005
Lima, Peru
Organized by Civil
Society
New Rules for
Global Finance Coalition
and
Asociacion Latinoamericana de Organismos para Promocion de Desarrollo
Co-Sponsored by
Foreign Ministry
of Sweden, UN Foundation, DESCO, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
February 16, 2005
Open Forum
The Future
of Development Financing: Challenges, Scenarios and Strategic Choices.
Francisco Sagasti, Keith Bezanson and Fernando Prada. October 2004. (175 pages)
February 17, 2005
Session I: Introduction
External Financing for Development and International Financial
Instability. Jan Kregel. October 2004. (34 pages)
Session II: Evaluating the
Official Reform Agenda for the International Financial
Architecture
Draft Rapporteur’s Report from the
International Conference on Financing for Development
Multi-Stakeholder Consultations on Systemic Issues.
Washington, DC. November 2004. (14 pages)
Session III: Mechanisms
for Crisis Prevention
A Proposal for a New
International Debt Framework (IDF) for the Prevention and
Resolution of Debt Crisis in Middle-Income Countries.
Kathrin Berensmann and Frank Schroeder. February 2005.
Recent Trends and Debates on the International Financial System.
Joseph Anthony Y. Lim. February 2004. (24 pages)
Debt Relief for Low Income Countries: Arbitration
as the Alternative to Present Unsuccessful Debt Strategies. Kunibert Raffer.
August 2001 (14 pages)
Lunch: Financing MDGs
A Practical Plan
to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Jeffrey Sachs.
SPANISH
/
FRENCH
(also available in Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian)
Session IV: Provision of
Credit in Times of Crisis
New
International Financial Contributions for Development. A report
by the working group chaired by Jean-Pierre LANDAU. 2004.
Please see in particular the
Executive Summary (Pages 3-12)
SPANISH /
FRENCH /
ENGLISH
Report of the Technical Group on Innovative Financing
Mechanisms. September 2004. (67 pages)
Session V: Reforming
Governance of Global Institutions
Reforming the IMF: From the Bottom-Up.
Comments made by Dr. Bessma Momani at the Financing for
Development consultation in Lima, Peru, on February 17, 2005 (2
pages)
The Reform of Global Financial Governance Arrangements.
Stephany Griffith-Jones and Jenny Kimmis (39 pages)
Why It Matters Who Runs the IMF and the World Bank. Nancy Birdsall.
October 2003 (35 pages)
February 18, 2005
Session VI: Management of
Capital Flows and Risk Exposure
A. Countercyclical Prudential Regulation
Capital-account and counter-cyclical prudential regulations in developing
countries. José Antonio Ocampo. February 2003. (37 pages)
B. Domestic Currency-Denominated
Debt
Up From Sin: A Portfolio
Approach to Financial Salvation. Randall Dodd and Shari Spiegel. August 2004
(29 pages)
Lunch:
Imbalances in the Global Economy
Desbalances Globales Principales Retatos / Imbalances
in the Global Economy (spanish) (9 pages) /
Slides (spanish)
(8 Slides).
Javier
Silva Ruete, Executive Director for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru,
and Uruguay, International Monetary Fund.
Remarks by Raghuram Rajan,
Economic
Counsellor and Director of the Research Department,
International Monetary Fund, at the Australasian Finance and
Banking Conference, Sydney, Australia, December 15, 2004
(7 pages)
Dollar Adjustment – Hard Landing or Global
Slowdown? J.A. Kregel. 2005 (17 pages)
Session VII: Conclusion
Note:
For more resources on a particular session you may want to look
at the
background papers from the November 16-17, 2004 Consultation in
Washington, DC.
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