Noticias
28 de octubre – Informe de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo
Naciones Unidas presentó el primer Informe sobre la Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, un análisis de autoría independiente sobre las tendencias de la cantidad y calidad de la asistencia, la responsabilidad mutua y la transparencia, la cooperación Sur-Sur, la coherencia de las políticas de desarrollo y la necesidad de reformar la arquitectura mundial de la cooperación para el desarrollo. Este informe, encomendado a DFI por UNDESA, fue objeto de un lanzamiento preliminar durante un evento colateral de la Cumbre sobre los ODM celebrada el 21 de setiembre. Véase su versión resumida en online.
24 October - Infrastructure Deficit and FDI Opportunities in Africa (AfDB)
With an estimated annual financing requirement of US$93 billion until 2020, this Economic Brief identifies huge opportunities and benefits from investing in Africa's infrastructure. Policy priorities include the mobilisation of foreign private capital (noting the importance of especially South-South FDI with reference to China), and alternative domestic and regional private sources in the form of infrastructure bonds (e.g. Kenya), Sovereign Wealth Funds (e.g. Libya), and commodity-linked bonds.
23 October - CEMLA Remittances Programme
Information on CEMLA's Remittances Programme may be found here. In addition to technical background documents, the site makes available country reports that cover issues such as economic context; institutional and legal framework; characteristics of recipients and providers; means and channels of payment; costs, disclosure, transparency and consumer protection information; and compilation methodology. These are presently available for Barbados, Bolivia, Columbia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Honduras.
23 October - African Stock Market Gains Reflect Growing Optimism (AfDB)
AfDB finds that second quarter stock market gains in Ghana (18%), Kenya (14%), Uganda (14%), Nigeria (9%), Côte d'Ivoire (9%), Morocco (8%), and Tunisia (5%) reflect growing optimism about international recovery in the financial markets, in spite of small losses in Mauritius, Egypt, and South Africa.
22 October - International Capital Flows and Development (IMF)
This paper confirms neoclassical theory that LDCs tend to experience net capital inflows and more developed countries net capital outflows, when accounting for the degree of capital account openness, and various country characteristics. Findings are driven by FDI, portfolio equity, and to some extent by loans to the private sector.
