Conference 09

Items related to the HI Conference 09 - 'What's missing in the response to the global financial crisis?'.

Questions and answers and discussion Monday 5:30pm panel

Thinking the unthinkable – The global financial crisis as an opportunity for transformative and systemic change?

Dr. José Antonio Ocampo

The role of the UN in addressing the crisis - Recommendations from the UN Commission of Experts

Dr. José Antonio Ocampo, Director, Program in Economic and Political Development, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and member of the Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System.

Jomo K. Sundaram

Impacts of the crisis and expanding the agenda for change
Jomo K. Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations 

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Chuck Freedman

Causes of, and responses to, the global financial crisis
Chuck Freedman, Co-Director, Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics, Carleton University.

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Monday Evening - Moderator's Introduction

Thinking the unthinkable – The global financial crisis as an opportunity for transformative and systemic change?
Welcome and introduction to the panel.
Moderator: Kari Polanyi Levitt, Emerita Professor of Economics, McGill University

What's missing in response to the global financial crisis: Presentations and Speeches (podcasts)

 Topic  Presentation  Speech
KEY NOTE: Thinking the unthinkable – The global financial crisis as an opportunity for transformative and systemic change?    Podcast
Causes of, and responses to, the global financial crisis - Chuck Freedman, Co-Director, Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics, Carleton University

The Changing Face of Global Development Finance - Presentations Day Two

On the second day of the February 2008 conference on the "Changing Face of Global Development Finance", we heard from the following:

  • Charles Mutasa, AFRODAD providing an overview of aid effectiveness and its challenges;
  • Lydia Duran, Association for Women's Rights in Development providing insight on the gender blind nature of the Paris Declaration and discussions around aid effectiveness;
  • Rasheed Draman, Parliamentary Centre on how national Parliament's continue to be ostracized from the aid debate;
  • Roy Culpeper, North-South Institute, on financing development and the role of domestic resource mobilization;

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