General News
24-26 March - African Economic Research Consortium Senior Policy Seminar XII on Financial Regulation, Mombasa.
This meeting of African researchers and policymakers examined how to enhance regulatory reforms in Africa and Africa’s views on global financial regulation. DFI helped AERC and the AfDB to facilitate the seminar, produce the report, AND arrange meetings in Washington discussed above. For an introduction to the seminar, click here.
16 March. Latest DFI Activities / Missions
During the first ten weeks of 2010, DFI has participated in World Bank Debt Management facility missions to Nepal (Debt Management Performance Assessment) and the Solomon Islands (Debt Management Reform Programme), Inter-Parliamentary Union Missions to Cambodia and Vietnam looking at the potential role of parliamentarians in increasing aid effectiveness; an UNCTAD consultation on South-South Cooperation; reviews of profiles of major Southern donors for Oxford Analytica; and several consultations on legal action against vulture funds, and financing the MDGs.
15 March. Public Finance Sustainability in Subnational Governments
The HIPC CBP produced its penultimate publication, designed to assist developing countries to analyse the sustainability of public finances and borrowing by decentralised government entities such as provinces, regions and municipalities. It has been written by CEMLA based on a major pilot programme in Bolivia, and presents the key analytical issues and framework, a system for assessing capacity-building needs, and the results of the Bolivia pilot programme. Work on this methodology is to continue under the next post-CBP phase of CEMLA's public debt management programme.
March-April – FPC CBP Closing Workshops in Francophone Africa (Abidjan, Ouagadougou).
Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire closed their first FPC CBP cycles during this period, presenting high-quality reports to national public and private sector stakeholders. Benin, Cameroon, Mali, Niger and Togo are also finalising their reports and preparing their closing workshops. Their analytical reports will soon be available on this site for download.
20 February. Private Capital Flows to LICs: Dealing with Boom and Bust
The FPC CBP released its final publication, analysing the impact of the global financial crisis on private capital flows to LICs. It is based on the analytical work conducted by the country teams in the FPC CBP participating countries, and contains many recommendations on how to maximise the contribution private flows make to development in LICs by reforming the global financial architecture, increasing and stabilising flows, changing their composition, accelerating diversification of sources and destinations, promoting dynamic sectors, responding to investor perceptions, and enhancing LIC monitoring, analysis and policymaking capacity. "Book Launch Tuesday 27 April 2010 from 17.30 - 19.00, at the Overseas Development Institute and online"
