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Wed Jan 27 2010- Heinrich Böll Foundation
Fostering impunity or accountability? Sweeping changes at the World Bank-IDA
While the World Bank is seeking for more resources, Nancy Alexander's new report finds several worrying trends that have to be taken into account. She analyses the World Bank’s financial response to the global economic crisis; how the World Bank is taking less responsibility for environmental and social outcomes; and the findings of the International Development Association’s recent Mid-Term Review with regard to the institution’s track record on its gender action plan and climate change programs.
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Mon Jan 25 2010- IFIs Latin American Monitor
"Economic crisis, finance and development: Views and proposals from Latin America and the Caribbean"
By the end of 2009, it seemed necessary to take stock of the political and economic situation and of the different processes in which civil society has been actively involved, in order to provide input for debate and coordinate efforts for the construction of a new economic and financial model. For this purpose, a seminar-workshop was carried out on December 10 and 11 2009, within the framework of the MERCOSUR Summit of Presidents held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 8.
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Thu Jan 07 2010- CADTM
How to challenge illegitimate debt
On 11th November, Swiss NGO Aktion Finanzplatz Schweiz launched a new book with legal case studies on illegitimate debt at the 7th UNCTAD Debt Management Conference in Geneva. The book will strengthen NGO campaigns by providing them with legal knowhow. Further, it offers useful legal arguments for initiatives by countries in the South who wish to assess and cancel illegitimate debts.
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Mon Jan 04 2010- Fundación Jubileo Bolivia
Bolivian deputies recommend to set up an external debt audit commission
Last December 30, by a majority vote of deputies, the Lower House of the Bolivian Parliament approved a resolution to recommend the Pluri-National Legislative Assembly taking office on January 6 2010, the setting up of a special commission to audit Bolivia’s external debt. The decision is part of a process having the participation of members of parliament as well as of civil society organisations and institutions – the Jubilee Foundation among them – in association with national and international networks.
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Fri Dec 11 2009- IFIs Latin American Monitor
The failure of a paradigm but... has anything really changed? (II), by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (PES)
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, former Danish prime minister and president of the Party of European Socialists (PES), participated in the first pannel at Put People First G20 Counter Conference, called "The failure of a paradigm but... has anything really changed?". He talked about financial bubbles, the need for regulation of the financial system and financial transaction tax. He clearly stated that: "The question of whether we should regulate the financial market or not is out of discussion. It is more a question of how to regulate the financial market".
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Thu Dec 10 2009- IFIs Latin American Monitor
"The European Investment Bank - ready for development?"
Last November 18 and 19, representatives of Latin American social organisations monitoring the activity of the European Investment Bank in the region participated in the seminar “The European Investment Bank - ready for development?” held in Brussels and organised by the European coalition Counter Balance. During the event, Latin American organisations presented the results of their investigations and demanded greater accountability from the Bank.
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Since the UN Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey in March 2002, world leaders and civil society have been discussing how to finance the agreements on the Millennium Goals to be met by 2015. This implies recognition of the link existing between financing for development, the reduction of poverty and sustainable development. In the last two decades, debt relief for countries with developing economies became one of the key issues with regards to financing. Civil society organizations that seek solutions to the debt issue propose alternatives ranging from the sole acknowledgement of legitimate debts to the non-payment or condonation of debts.

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Online petition for debt moratorium amid the economic and climate crises

October 12 – 18, 2009: Week of Global Action against Debt and the IFI's

Focus on the Global South
Focus on the Global South is a program of development policy research, analysis and action. Focus engages in research, analysis, advocacy and grassroots capacity building on critical issues.

Forum on the Future of Aid
The Forum on the Future of Aid is an online community dedicated to research and opinions about how the international aid system currently works and where it should go next.

Halifax Initiative Coalition
The Halifax Initiative Coalition was formed in the context of an international movement of non-governmental organizations focused on evaluating the role and record of the Bretton Woods Institutions at the time of their 50th Anniversary. Since 1994, Halifax have worked through research, education, advocacy and alliance-building to fundamentally transform the international financial system and its institutions to achieve poverty eradication, environmental sustainability and an equitable re-distribution of wealth.

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UN climate conference – Copenhagen, December 2009
The global financial crisis: implications for the South
Gender in economics
The Bank of the South: An alternative to the IFIs?
Financing for Development
Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America - IIRSA
External debt
World Bank
International Monetary Fund - IMF
Climate change

 

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