Financing for Development: Are the UN Proposals the Answer?

This event saw presentation on the working of international capital and credit markets, policy mechanisms and gaps in institutional framework; and the linkages between capital flows, growth and poverty.

This event introduced a series discussing the UN's decision to focus on financing for development at the forthcoming High-Level Intergovernmental Event.

This event investigated two key questions: is there a case for aid today?; and the financial architecture for poor countries, does HIPC pave the way.

This event offered presentations on two topics: whether private capital flows are stable or not; and whether foreign direct investment flows are really less volatile than portfolio and bank flows?

This event discussed two key questions on trade: does it have a role in financing development; and is liberalisation of trade in financial services the right way forward?

Speakers at this event presented on two topics around domestics financial architecture: getting the domestic financial architecture right; and the domestic architecture of financial sectors in developing countries.

This event discussed two key questions: making the international financial architecture work; and have we done enough to set the international financial architecture right?

In this final meeting in the series on Financing for Development, a panel of experts discussed some of the nkey issues raised in the series and offered their views.