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New Rules Activities
2008
June 2, 2008: Responsive and responsible: Moving
the IMF from a staff- to a membership-driven
organization. Washington, DC, USA.
May 21-23, 2008:
Revenue’s
Role in the Quest for Inclusive Development:What
Works and what can Work Better?
South-South Sharing of Successful Tax Practices (S4TP).
New York,
NY, USA.
May 20-21, 2008: Bringing Central Asian
Perspectives to the IMF Reform Debate. Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan.
May 16, 2008 (10:00-5:30)
Resetting Priorities:
Bringing African Perspectives to IMF Reform Debates. (Maputo, Mozambique)
April 18, 2008 (12:00-1:30):
The Road to Doha: Financing
for Development Activity Intensifies now through June 2008. (Washington, DC)
April 10, 2008 (2:00-5:30) Bringing
Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives to IMF Reform Debates.
(Washington, DC)
March 26, 2008: Letter to
the Executive Director of the IMF about IMF
Quota Reform from several institutions including New Rules.
(Washington, DC)
March 14, 2008 (12:00-1:30)
The Road to Doha: Financing for Development Activity Intensifies now through
June 2008. (Washington, DC)
February 19, 2008 (3:30-5:30)
The Road to Doha: Financing for Development Activity Intensifies now through
June 2008. (Washington, DC)
January 16, 2008 (3:30-5:00)
The Road to Doha: Financing for
Development activity intensifies now through June 2008. (Washington, DC)
2007
December 12, 2007. (2:30 pm - 5:00 pm)
New
Rules Annual General Meeting. (Washington, DC)
October
21, 2007 (11:00 am - 12:30 pm)
Discussion of the
Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative (StAR).
Organized by the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
and the
Tax Justice Network. (Washington,
DC)
October
19, 2007 (5:00 pm - 6:30 pm)
Re-Assessing IMF
Governance Reforms: Quota, Voice, and Executive Board Accountability.
Hosted by the G-24.
Organized by New Rules for Global Finance,
Bretton Woods Project, and Bank Information Center. (Washington,
DC)
September 27, 2007 (3:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Discussion: The Road to Doha: Major events and key
issues in light of the 2008 Review Conference on
Financing for Development.
(Washington, DC)
July 2, 2007 -
Discussion of the
Final Report of the Working Group on IMF-Supported
Programs and Health Spending.
Organized by the
Center for Global Development and the
New Rules for Global Finance Coalition.
(Washington, DC)
May through
July 2007 -
Urgent Recommendation to World Bank and IMF
Executive Directors on the Leadership Selection
Reform at the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund is backed by more than 675 signatures!
May 18, 2007 -
Inflation Targeting, Employment Creation, and
Economic Development: Thematic Issues and Country
Studies. Organized by the Political
Economy Research Institute, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst in cooperation with New
Rules. (Washington, DC)
April 15, 2007 - Civil
Society Forum for the Special high-level meeting of Economic and Social
Council with the BWIs, WTO and UNCTAD. (New York, NY)
April 13, 2007
- IEO Evaluation of the IMF and Aid to
Sub-Saharan Africa. A
Civil Society Policy Forum sponsored by the New Rules Coalition during the
April 2007 IMF
Spring Meetings. (Washington, DC)
April 12, 2007 - Presentation of the Recommendations
of the High-Level Panel on IMF Board Accountabilityat the World Bank. A
Civil Society Policy Forum Sponsored
by the New Rules Coalition during the April 2007 IMF Spring Meetings.
(Washington, DC)
April 12, 2007 - Labor Standards, Human Rights, Democracy: The Role of the World Bank
and IMF. A
Civil Society Policy Forum sponsored by the New Rules Coalition during the
April 2007 IMF
Spring Meetings. (Washington, DC)
April 10-11, 2007: Enhancing the Democratic Accountability and
Parliamentary Oversight of the International
Financial Institutions: Global Strategy Meeting.
(Washington, DC)
March
19, 2007. NGO Strategy
meeting for the 2007 Spring Meetings and ECOSOC. (Washington, DC)
February 26, 2007 -
NGO Strategy
meeting for the 2007 Spring Meetings and ECOSOC. (Washington, DC)
February 2, 2007 -
Follow-up
meeting on FFD, Spring Meetings, and ECOSOC. (Washington, DC)
January 25, 2007 - Presentation and discussion: Introducing Financial Accountability to the IFIs: A Necessary and Overdue
Reform With Kunibert Raffer. (Washington, DC)
January 19, 2007 - Discussion
on the UN Report on Coherence and an Update on the Follow-up Conference
on Financing for Development and Action Planning for 2007.
(Washington, DC)
January 11-12, 2007 - Second Meeting of the High Level Panel on IMF Board
Accountability. (Washington, DC)
2006
November-December 2006 -
¿Qué
hacer con el FMI? Algunas perspectivas desde la
sociedad civil. Jo Marie Griesgraber and
Oscar Ugarteche. November-December 2006. This
article was published in
Global Governance: A review of Multilateralism and
International Organizations.
November 14, 2006 -
Brown bag
lunch presentation and discussion of "Hijacking the Development Debate"
with John Cavanagh and Robin Broad.
October 3, 2006 - Press
Release on the Conclusion of the First Meeting of the High-Level Panel on
Accountability of IMF Executive Board
September 7-8, 2006 -
First Meeting of the High Level Panel on IMF Board Accountability.
(Washington, DC)
August 22, 2006 -
Brown
bag lunch presentation and discussion 'Taking a
Fresh Look at Trade' with Irfan ul Haque and Tom
Palley.
Presentation by Tom Palley: Creating a Post-Doha Agenda.
July 18, 2006 -
Brown
bag lunch presentation and discussion of Corruption with Raymond
Baker and Ariel Buira.
Presentation given by Raymond
Baker.
July 2006 -
A Review of Ex-ante Poverty Impact Assessments of
Macroeconomic Policies in Cameroon and Ghana.
African Development Bank Economic Research Working
Paper No 86 written by Nicholas Adamtey and Vitus
Azeem, Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC)
and Samuel Fambon, University of Yaoundé II. This paper is a summarized
and merged version of two extensive country case studies of experiences
with ex-ante poverty impact assessments of macroeconomic policies in
Cameroon and Ghana.
Click here for more information
on New Rules work on Poverty and Social Impact
Assessments.
June 19, 2006 - Press
Release: Formation of New High-Level International
Panel Announced.
New
Project To Scrutinize IMF Board.
June 9, 2006 - Brown bag lunch presentation and discussion on
IMF Reform with Professor Daniel Bradlow. Download:
Paper /
Powerpoint.
May 17, 2006 - New
Rules Elects Board of Directors!.
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 20, 2006 - Press Release: Fund’s
de Rato proposes streamlining steps: But where do
they lead?
Spanish
Translation.
April 5, 2006 -
New Rules Meeting + Presentation and Discussion on IMF Reform with Ralph Bryant,
Brookings Institution (Washington, DC, USA)
April 5, 2006 -
More
than sixty organizations sign-on to the Letters to President Obasanjo of Nigeria
and the members of the African Union’s debt
commission.
The purpose of these letters is to request that they
shift the location of Paris Club debt negotiations
to Africa.
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)
September 12, 2005 -
Final Report and
Recommendations On “Addressing Systemic Issues”,
Section F Of the Monterrey Consensus adopted at the International
Conference on Financing for Development Monterrey Mexico, March
2002.
Click here for full
details on the Consultations.
August 29-31, 2005 -
New Rules Multi-stakeholder Consultation on Systemic Issues (New Delhi, India)
June 23, 2005 -
Interim
Report and Recommendations On “Addressing Systemic Issues”
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)
May 2005 - Theme Issue of
Development Policy Review: Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2005 "Analysing
Macro-Poverty Linkages"
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)
February 2005 - Democratizing
the World Bank and IMF: Statement of the IFI Democracy Coalition
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)
September 2004 - Brochure describing the
Multi-stakeholder Consultations with a focus on the Systemic Issues
Consultation organized by the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
August 2004 -
FFD
Flier for Multi-stakeholder Consultations on Systemic Issues 2004-2005
July 21, 2004 - Joint Briefing with the Financing for Development Office and
New Rules for Global Finance Coalition.
The briefing discussed the start-up
of a third set of "multi-stakeholder consultations" being organized as
part of the Financing for Development follow-up process. See
PowerPoint Presentation by New Rules for Global Finance Coalition.
July 2004 - Research team from Nepal wins EPIAM Research Competition
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)
April 2004 - International
Research Competition on Exante Poverty Impact Assessment of Macroeconomic
Policies
March 2004 -
New Rules for Global Finance Briefing Paper:
Reform Proposals for the Governance
Structures of the International Financial Institutions.
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)
May 2002 - New Rules Strategy Paper:
“Towards Poverty Reducing Macroeconomic Policies”
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