International Financial Institutions
- Policy changes to ensure that the world that emerges from global crisis is better than the one that caused it
- International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2009
- The global crises grew out of an economic model that is fuelled by risk-taking and speculation, with lopsided standards that cannot effectively supervise such behaviour. The present model of growth is based on an unsustainable over-ex...
- Suggestions for improved regional development banks
- P. Wolff (ed); K. Liebig (ed) / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2008
- The development finance system is becoming increasingly complex. New actors and instruments are being created with enormous speed and ingenuity. Yet the multilateral development banks still account for a large share of the public reso...
- Analysing the impact of World Bank lending
- World Bank, 2008
- How can the environmental impact of World Bank lending be calculated? The Operations Policy on Development Policy Lending (DPL), requires that the World Bank systematically analyses whether specific country policies supported by an op...
- The future of the IMF: resources, policies and reform
- M. Weisbrot; J. Cordero; L. Sandoval / Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2009
- The London Summit of G-20 leaders recently agreed to increase the resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by up to $750 billion, for a total that could reach $1 trillion. But the meeting devoted relative...
- Global financial systems show early signs of stabilisation but more action needed says IMF
- World Economic and Financial Surveys Series, 2009
- The global financial system remains under severe stress. This Global Financial Stability report from the IMF comes at a time when the crisis is spreading to households and so individuals all over the world are feeling real effects. Pr...
- The first stage of the IMF review of financing for low-income countries
- International Monetary Fund, 2009
- The review of the Internation Monetary Fund’s facilities and financing framework for low-income countries (LICs) is part of a broader review of the Fund’s facilities. This paper assesses the adequacy of the Fund’s to...
- Building up cushions to avoid draining liquidity during periods of crisis
- United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2009
- The current global financial crisis arose amidst the failure of the international community to give the globalised economy credible global rules. This is true especially with regard to international financial relations and macroeconom...
- DFID outlines development challenges and responses for 2009
- Department for International Development, UK, 2009
- This background paper for the DFID annual conference "Securing our Common Future: a conference on the future of international development" (9-10 March 2009, London) reaffirms commitments and reviews priorities. It aim...
- Reviewing past World Bank responses to crises
- Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2008
- The ongoing financial crisis in the United States and other developed countries is spreading to the developing world, middle- and low-income countries alike, threatening years of progress in poverty reduction. Experiences with past cr...
- How more effective global governance can be promoted in the financial sector
- R. Agarwala / Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
- The current global financial crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression of the 1930s, may turn out to be an epoch-making event in evolution of global governance. With massive globalisation in financial services, global financi...
- Suggestions for improved regional development banks
- P. Wolff (ed); K. Liebig (ed) / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2008
- The development finance system is becoming increasingly complex. New actors and instruments are being created with enormous speed and ingenuity. Yet the multilateral development banks still account for a large share of the public reso...
- Analysing the impact of World Bank lending
- World Bank, 2008
- How can the environmental impact of World Bank lending be calculated? The Operations Policy on Development Policy Lending (DPL), requires that the World Bank systematically analyses whether specific country policies supported by an op...
- The future of the IMF: resources, policies and reform
- M. Weisbrot; J. Cordero; L. Sandoval / Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2009
- The London Summit of G-20 leaders recently agreed to increase the resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by up to $750 billion, for a total that could reach $1 trillion. But the meeting devoted relative...
- Global financial systems show early signs of stabilisation but more action needed says IMF
- World Economic and Financial Surveys Series, 2009
- The global financial system remains under severe stress. This Global Financial Stability report from the IMF comes at a time when the crisis is spreading to households and so individuals all over the world are feeling real effects. Pr...
- The first stage of the IMF review of financing for low-income countries
- International Monetary Fund, 2009
- The review of the Internation Monetary Fund’s facilities and financing framework for low-income countries (LICs) is part of a broader review of the Fund’s facilities. This paper assesses the adequacy of the Fund’s to...
- Building up cushions to avoid draining liquidity during periods of crisis
- United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2009
- The current global financial crisis arose amidst the failure of the international community to give the globalised economy credible global rules. This is true especially with regard to international financial relations and macroeconom...
- DFID outlines development challenges and responses for 2009
- Department for International Development, UK, 2009
- This background paper for the DFID annual conference "Securing our Common Future: a conference on the future of international development" (9-10 March 2009, London) reaffirms commitments and reviews priorities. It aim...
- Reviewing past World Bank responses to crises
- Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2008
- The ongoing financial crisis in the United States and other developed countries is spreading to the developing world, middle- and low-income countries alike, threatening years of progress in poverty reduction. Experiences with past cr...
- How more effective global governance can be promoted in the financial sector
- R. Agarwala / Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
- The current global financial crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression of the 1930s, may turn out to be an epoch-making event in evolution of global governance. With massive globalisation in financial services, global financi...
- Calls are being made for a 'Bretton Woods II', viewing fundamental financial reform as necessary for both economic and social stability
- C. Rude / Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2008
- Groups of expert academics, international regulators, bank representatives, policy makers, and trade unionists from the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America met in New York to discuss the global economic crisis, its causes a...
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- Research wing of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, a multinational banking and financial services organisation. Originally Spanish, it has a major presence in Latin America. Research outputs cover: Macroeconomic Analysis Sectorial Analysis Global Trends Pensions
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