Development Finance International
6 May - Overcoming Developing Country Debt Crises
The Initiative for Policy Dialogue published a seminal study of how to avoid future developing country debt crises, to which DFI contributed a chapter on the experiences of Ethiopia. For more information click here.
27 April - Private Capital Flows to Low Income Countries: Dealing with Boom and Bust, London.
DFI launched its new publication on the impact of the global financial crisis on private capital flows to LICs, at the Overseas Development Institute. To see the presentations and discussions at the meeting, go to the ODI website. To download the publication, click here.
26 April - Private Capital Flows to Low Income Countries: Dealing with Boom and Bust, Washington.
DFI launched its new publication at a seminar at the IMF organized jointly by the Africa and SPR departments, and held discussions on future cooperation on private capital flows issues with various departments of the IMF and World Bank.
24 April - Sovereign Debt Management Beyond HIPC.
DFI participated in a meeting organised by the German government to discuss new regulatory frameworks to secure debt sustainability and mitigate adverse impacts of future debt crises. The meeting concluded that there was an urgent need for such regulatory frameworks.
24 April - OIF Meeting of Francophone Finance Ministers, Washington.
DFI participated in a meeting at the BWI Annual Meetings to set priorities for future advocacy to be facilitated by the OIF. The meeting agreed that the key target meetings should be the G8/G20 and BWI meetings, and that the key subjects should be financing for development and debt.
