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Among the most important issues for countries to achieve sustainable, long-term growth are the development of a strong financial sector and the extension of credit to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This task force will work towards a new paradigm in the regulation of financial markets; one that both serves prudential purposes while also providing incentives for banks to extend credit to companies that need it the most, when they most need it.  |
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| Toward a World Reserve System |
| Event: Nov 06, 2009 |
| Academics dialogued with policymakers and representatives from the United Nations, Bretton Woods Institutions and civil society organizations to discuss the prospects for replacing the US dollar as the reserve currency in order to create a more stable and just global reserve system. |
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| Obama's Ersatz Capitalism |
| Article Link: Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| The Obama administration's $500 billion or more proposal to deal with America's ailing banks has been described by some in the financial markets as a win-win-win proposal. Actually, it is a win-win-lose proposal: the banks win, investors win - and taxpayers lose. |
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| Policy Responses to Unfettered Finance |
| Event: Feb 12, 2009 - Feb 13, 2009 |
| Organized by the North-South Institute and hosted by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, this workshop discussed policy responses to the current global financial crisis. Please find details of the research agenda in progress here. |
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| Do not squander Americas stimulus on tax cuts |
| News: Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| As news of the US economy worsens, worries about whether a stimulus could restart the economy are growing. What is clear is that tax cuts will not help much. |
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| Global Financial Crisis Meeting |
| Event: Nov 13, 2008 |
| This conference brought together very high-level regulators, leading academics, senior parliamentarians, the UN, civil society and the private sector to address today's most critical questions on the global crisis, its management, and its implications for financial regulation. Click above for the conference statement and other meeting details. |
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| Professor Perry G. Mehrling on the financial crisis |
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| Perry Merhling is a professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University and a member of the Task Force on Financial Markets Reform. He recently wrote a letter to the Financial Times, posted on their blog and wrote an article to the RGE Monitor urging that instead of determining the price on the ABX insurance policies using the old pricing system, that they simply be set. |
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| Financial Markets Reform Task Force Meeting 2008 |
| Event: July 2008: Jul 01, 2008 - Jul 02, 2008 |
| Ten years ago, there was a global financial crisis, and promises of reform in the global financial architecture. Little of substance was done, and the world now once again faces global financial turbulence. This time, however, the problems are at the center, not the periphery. The widespread turbulence of developed country financial markets provides the impetus for this summer's Financial Markets Task Force Meeting held at the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute. |
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| Discussion on the Subprime Crisis, Financial Regulation, and Hedge Funds |
| Event: Feb 06, 2008 - Feb 06, 2008 |
| Former Prime Minister of Denmark, and current Member of European Parliament and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES), Poul Rasmussen, joined IPD with a delegation of economists and political strategists to discuss the current subprime crisis, financial regulation, and hedge funds, in preparation for writing a report on the issue for the European Parliament. |
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| Financial Markets Reform Task Force Meeting 2006 |
| Event: Jul 25, 2006 - Jul 27, 2006 |
| At this meeting, the task force laid out a policy-oriented research agenda and determined which issues within financial markets reform it will address in its future work. |
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