XXIX G24 Technical Group Meeting

  September 7-8, 2009

  Palais des Nations, Geneva

  E- Building - Gate 40

  Meeting Room XXV, 1st Floor

September 7, 2009

 8:30 AM          Arrival of Participants, Registration

 9:30 AM          Opening Remarks by Chair

 9:45 AM           Origins and Impact of the Crisis from the Perspective of Developing Countries

                        Chair: Adib Mayaleh, Governor, Central Bank of Syria

Heiner Flassbeck, Director, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD

Ye Liu, Advisor to Executive Director for China, IMF

Jason Milton and Linda Motsumi, Reserve Bank of South Africa

Jomo Sundaram, Assistant Secretary General, UNDESA and G24 Research Coordinator

Amar Bhattacharya, Director, G24 Secretariat

Background papers:

On the Roots of the Current Financial Crisis - Hu Xiaolian (download)

The Unnatural Coupling: Food and Global Finance - Jayati Ghosh (download)

11:00 AM        Coffee Break

 11:15 AM        Open Discussion

 12:00 AM        Implications for Regulation of Financial Markets and Capital Flows

                       Chair: Adib Mayaleh, Governor, Central Bank of Syria 

Andrew Cornford, Consultant

Chakravarthi Raghavan, Consultant

Stephany Griffith Jones, Executive Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University

Background papers:

Agenda and Criteria for Financial Regulatory Reform - Jane D’Arista & Stephany Griffith–Jones (download)

The Basel 2 Agenda for 2009: Progress So Far - Andrew Cornford (download)

Should Financial Flows Be Regulated? Yes - Gerald Epstein (download)

Financial Services, the WTO and Initiatives for Global Financial Reform - Chakravarthi Raghavan (download)

Global Liquidity and Financial Flows to Developing Countries: New trends in Emerging markets and their implications - C.P. Chandrasekhar (download)

 1:00 PM          Lunch

 2:30 PM          Open Discussion

 3:00 PM          Reform of the International Monetary System

Chair: Adib Mayaleh, Governor, Central Bank of Syria 

Jose Antonio Ocampo, Professor, Columbia University and Co-Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue

Luis Gustavo Mansur Siqueira, Deputy Head, Department of International Relations, Central Bank of Brazil

Yilmaz Akyuz, Consultant

 Background papers:

Special Drawing Rights and the Reform of the Global Reserve System- José Antonio Ocampo (download)

The Global Crisis and the International Financial System: Reform to Recover- Maria Beatriz Costa, Diogo Nogueira, & Luis Gustavo Mansur Siqueira (download)

Policy Response to the Global Financial Crisis: Key Issues for Developing Countries - Yilmaz Akyüz (download)

The Contemporary Reform of Global Financial Governance:  Implications of and Lessons from the Past - Eric Helleiner (download)

4:00 PM          Coffee

 4:15 PM         Open Discussion

September 8, 2009

9:00 AM            Climate Change and Development: What Next?

Chair: Rogério Studart, Alternate Executive Director, World Bank                                   

Detlef Kotte, Head, Macroeconomic and Development Policies Branch, DGDS, UNCTAD

Jomo Sundaram, Assistant Secretary General, UNDESA and G24 Research Coordinator

 Background papers:

Financing for Climate Investments - Frank Ackerman (download)

 9:45 AM          Open Discussion

 10:15 AM        Coffee

 10:30 AM        Voice and Representation Reform in the World Bank

Chair: Rogério Studart, Alternate Executive Director, World Bank                                   

Amar Bhattacharya, Director, G24 Secretariat

 11:00 AM        Open Discussion

 11:45 AM        Closing Session

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