all
Il y a 14 years 4 months. Domestic legislation, ECA Reform, Government of Canada policies and positions, IFI, IFI accountability, IFI governance, IFI policies and positions, IFI reform, Tax Justice. 2010 G8/G20 Canadian Civil Society Coordinating Committee
Parliamentary Roundtables on the G8/G20 Agendas Read more ...
Il y a 14 years 4 months. Corporate accountability, EDC regulation, Government of Canada policies and positions, IFI policies and positions, Sustainability, Tax Justice. IMF, European Union look to bail out Greece
Greece’s debt crisis is finally coming to a head, with International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans to deal with the country’s deficit and heavy debt load being hammered out in Athens. The European Union and the IMF are negotiating the terms of a bailout as fears mount that Greece’s crisis could soon spread to other countries in Europe and beyond. Other nations carrying significant debt loads, including the United States, are concerned that the Greek crisis is a harbinger of things to come, closer to home.
Read more ...
Il y a 14 years 4 months. Corporate accountability, Environment, Environmental, Government of Canada policies and positions, HIPC initiative, Human, Human rights, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty. 2010 G8/G20 Canadian Civil Society Coordinating Committee
Parliamentary Roundtables on the G8/G20 Agendas Read more ...
Il y a 14 years 4 months. Corporate accountability, Environment, Environmental, Farming crisis, globalization, Government accountability, Government of Canada policies and positions, HIPC initiative, Human, Human rights, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty. 2010 G8/G20 Canadian Civil Society Coordinating Committee
Parliamentary Roundtables on the G8/G20 Agendas Read more ...
Il y a 14 years 5 months. Environment, Government of Canada policies and positions, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty. Climate Change and Poverty: Off the Table?
In the wake of the financial crisis, countries around the world have cut back on their commitments to combat climate change and poverty. As the G8/G20 leaders prepare to gather in June, what are the challenges and opportunities for getting these issues back on the table?
Presenters:
Charles Abugre, Director of Campaigns for the Millennium Development Goals, United Nations Development Program
Gauri Sreenivasan, Policy Coordinator, Canadian Council for International Co-operation
Wednesday, April 28th 7:00pm - 9:00pm
The University of Ottawa - Pavillion Desmarais
55 Laurier East, Room 1120 (First Floor)
For more information please contact Caroline Foster at cfoster@kairoscanada.org
Co-sponsored by:
Canadian Council for International Co-operation - Africa Canada Forum
Halifax Initiative
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
School of International Development and Global Studies
Read more ...
Il y a 14 years 5 months. . Changements climatiques et pauvreté dans le tiers-monde Read more ...
Il y a 14 years 5 months. . An emtpy article...
Read more ...
Il y a 14 years 5 months. globalization, Government of Canada policies and positions, Millennium Development Goals, Sustainability, Tax Justice. Introduction
A growing number of politicians, civil society organizations, economists and some financiers have become strong advocates of a global Financial Transactions Tax (FTT). An FTT is a tiny tax on financial market transactions such as equity, bond, derivative or foreign exchange trades.
Political leaders, including the presidents of France and Germany and the prime minister of Britain, back an FTT as one of the best ways to fund programs to fight world poverty, pay for climate mitigation and adaptation costs and make financial institutions pay their fair share of the costs of the global crisis which, in large part, was created by their practices. Prominent economists advocate a Financial Transactions Tax as one way to cool down excessive speculation in financial markets, a principal cause of the economic crisis.
Read more ...
Il y a 14 years 5 months. . Introduction
De plus en plus de politiciens, d’organisations de la société civile, d’économistes et quelques financiers plaident vigoureusement en faveur d’une Taxe mondiale sur les transactions financières (TTF). La TTF est une taxe très faible appliquée aux transactions réalisées sur les marchés financiers : commerce des actions, des obligations, des produits dérivés ou des devises, par exemple.
Des leaders politiques, notamment le président français, la chancelière allemande et le premier ministre britannique, voient dans la TTF une des meilleures façons de financer des programmes contre la pauvreté dans le monde, de gérer l’atténuation ou les conséquences des changements climatiques et de faire payer aux institutions financières leur juste part de la crise mondiale que leurs pratiques ont largement contribué à provoquer. D’éminents économistes prônent la TTF pour calmer la spéculation excessive sur les marchés financiers et prévenir ainsi la crise économique
Read more ...
Il y a 14 years 5 months. globalization, Government of Canada policies and positions, IFI policies and positions, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty, Sustainability, Tax Justice, Transparency and disclosure. What’s changed in the international financial system and its institutions, what hasn’t and what needs to
Executive Summary
Back in 1995, the G7 met in Halifax during a “time of change and opportunity.” The meeting took place in a context of mounting deficits and debt crises in countries in the South; in the wake of economic collapse in Mexico; and amid strong global criticism from civil society, the media and governments about the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) austere neo-liberal structural adjustment policies.
A lot has changed since then, partly in response to the Halifax G7 Summit and subsequent G7 and G8 meetings. Too many of these improvements, however, exist only on paper. Beyond the surface, the neo-liberal, market-oriented bias that guides the Bank and Fund’s agenda and thinking has not altered.
The 2010 G8 Summit in Toronto in 2010 takes place during another “time of change and opportunity.” The financial crisis has spurred many civil society organizations (CSOs) to insist on far-reaching changes to the global financial system and its institutions. Clearly, as this publication will illustrate, 15 years of refusing to deal with the manifest shortcomings of the global economic system is enough.
Read more ...