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21 years 4 months ago.   Human rights, IFI policies and positions, Transparency and disclosure.   Commonwealth Foundation Brunei Darasalaam July 22nd, 2003 The Role of IFIs Pamela Foster Halifax Initiative Coalition I may have been asked to give this talk as I, among our Commonwealth colleagues, sit closest to Washington. As there is so much experience in the room in addressing issues of the World Bank and the IMF[1], I will merely start a list of all the ways that the IFIs are implicated in the relentless drive towards privatization of public assets. First, I would like to quickly share two contextual comments regarding this push towards privatization. It must be situated within the drive towards the end of history, or the ultimate global supremacy of US-modeled capitalism. This victory was declared at the end of the Cold War. The end of history envisions the role of the state being limited to maintaining law and order and a sound investment climate.   Read more ...
21 years 4 months ago.   .   July 14, 2003 President Ricardo Lagos Government of Chile C/o Chilean Embassy 50 O’Connor Street Ottawa, ON  K1P 6L2 Fax: (613) 235-1176   Read more ...
21 years 4 months ago.   Environment.   James Wolfensohn   Read more ...
21 years 4 months ago.   IFI accountability, IFI policies and positions.     Read more ...
21 years 4 months ago.   Government of Canada policies and positions.   Mr. Fraser Reilly-King Coordinator NGO Working Group on the EDC Halifax Initiative 153 Chapel Street, Suite 104 Ottawa ON K1N 1H5 Dear Mr. Reilly-King:   Read more ...
21 years 4 months ago.   .   July 3, 2003 Mr. Svend Robinson, M.P. Burnaby-Douglas 4453 Hastings Street Burnaby, British Columbia V5C 2K1 Dear Mr. Robinson:   Read more ...
21 years 5 months ago.   Human rights.   July 2, 2003 Mr. Fraser Reilly-King Halifax Initiative 153 Chapel Street, Suite 104 Ottawa, ON  K1N 1H5 Dear Mr. Reilly-King I wish to respond to your letter of May 16 in which you raise a number of questions concerning Export Development Canada’s practice of assessing human rights issues related to transactions that we may consider for support. You suggest that I intervene with the Chinese authorities in the development of the Three Gorges Hydroelectric Project. While EDC continues to follow developments concerning the project, your request is more appropriately addressed to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. Canadian foreign policy and government-to-government relations are quite properly handled by political authorities, not export credit agencies. This is consistent with actions taken by the Swiss government.   Read more ...
21 years 5 months ago.   globalization.   "The G8, Globalization and Human Security - a Resource Package and Facilitator's Guide"   Read more ...
21 years 5 months ago.   IFI governance.   153 Chapel Street, Ste 104 Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 1H5 Tel: 613-789-4447 www.halifaxinitiative.org   Read more ...
21 years 5 months ago.   .   G7 Response to Financial Crises – Another Band-Aid The frequent financial crises of recent years has exposed the systemic instability of global finance and resulted in devastating impacts on human development. Financial liberalization has meant that governments have lost their ability to control the global flow of capital, thereby surrendering monetary and economic policy sovereignty to investment firms and large banks. These financial crises revealed the degree to which financial markets are under-governed in the global economy. An enormous discrepancy exists between an increasingly sophisticated international financial world and the lack of proper institutional frameworks to regulate it at the national and multilateral levels. The inevitability of future crises makes the re-regulation of capital a global imperative.   Read more ...

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