Events on Financing for Development
The following table is a record of special events on financing for development held since 2004. It includes multi-stakeholder consultations, panel discussions, seminars, workshops and side events.
Special Events
| Date | Location | Topic of Meeting |
|---|---|---|
| 9 March 2009 | New York | ECOSOC Briefing by the World Bank and the IMF |
| 29 November - 2 December 2008 | Doha, Qatar | Side events held during the Doha Review Conference |
| 28 November 2008 | Doha, Qatar | Second International Business Forum: Designing Roadmaps for Mobilizing Private Sector Resources for Development |
| 26-27 November 2008 | Doha, Qatar | Doha Global Civil Society Forum |
| 11 October 2008 | Washington, DC | Side event on "Emerging Challenges in Financing for Development" |
| 10 October 2008 | New York | Panel discussion on "Challenges and emerging issues in external debt restructuring" |
| 27-28 August 2008 | Amsterdam | Expert Group Meeting on "Transfer Pricing: A Discussion of the practical issues for developing countries" |
| 17 June 2008 | New York | Workshop on "Carbon Taxes - A Tool for Managing Climate Change or a Threat to the World's Poor?" |
| 22-23 May, 2008 | New York | Workshop on "Revenue's Role in the Quest for Inclusive Development: What Works and What Can Work Better? South-South Sharing of Successful Tax Practices (S4TP)" |
| 13 May 2008 | New York | Expert Group Meeting on "Realizing the Potential of Diasporas to Reduce Poverty and Enhance Entrepreneurship" |
| 8-9 April 2008 | New York | Workshop II on "Debt, Finance and Emerging Issues in Financial Integration" |
| 17-19 December 2007 | Bangkok, Thailand | Fourth regional consultation on "National and Regional Development Banks in Asia and the Pacific: Potential and Sustainability" |
| 17-19 December 2007 | Bangkok, Thailand | Third regional consultation on "Responsible Infrastructure Investment: Financing Access to Basic Utilities" (Asia and the Pacific) |
| 16 November 2007 | New York | Panel discussion on "Moving Out of Aid Dependency" |
| 12 November 2007 | New York | Panel discussion on "Financing for gender equality within the context of follow up to the Monterrey Consensus" |
| 22-23 October 2007 | New York | Side Events at the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development |
| 18-19 October 2007 | New York | Expert Group Meeting: Innovative Finance for Sustainable Development |
| 4-5 September 2007 | Rome, Italy | Special Expert Group Meeting: Tax Aspects of Domestic Resource Mobilisation - a Discussion of Enduring and Emerging Issues |
| 23-25 April 2007 | Lusaka, Zambia | Second regional consultation on "Financing access to basic utilities for all" (Africa) |
| 16 April 2007 | New York | Side Events at the special high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| 10 April 2007 | New York | Panel discussion on "Regulation of Microfinance" |
| 29 March 2007 | New York | Briefing on UNU-WIDER study on "World Distribution of Household Wealth" |
| 6-7 March 2007 | London, UK | Workshop on "Debt, finance and emerging issues in financial integration" |
| 11-13 December 2006 | Brasilia, Brazil | First regional consultation on "Financing basic utilities for all" (Latin America and the Caribbean) |
| 22-23 November 2006 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Third regional consultation on "Rethinking the Role of National Development Banks in Africa" |
| 20 October 2006 | New York | Panel discussion on "Scaling up of aid flows" |
| 12 October 2006 | New York | Briefing on 2006 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings |
| 5-6 October 2006 | New York | Workshop on "Diasporas and the business sector" |
| 17 July 2006 | New York | Panel discussion on "Building inclusive financial sectors for development" |
| 27-28 June 2006 | Paris, France | Second regional consultation on "The Role of National and Regional Development Banks in Africa" |
| 26-27 June 2006 | New York | Expert Group Meeting on "Financing basic utilities for all" |
| 12-13 June 2006 | Lima, Peru | Seminar on "Challenges of NDBs in Latin America" |
| 9 June 2006 | Monastir, Tunisia | Workshop on "Fostering Entrepreneurship in Africa" |
| 5-6 June 2006 | Dakar, Senegal | UN Conference on Financial Inclusion in Africa |
| 11 May 2006 | New York | "Global Imbalances: An Indian Perspective" |
| 24-25 April 2006 | New York | Side events at 2006 Special high-level meeting of ECOSOC |
| 17 March 2006 | New York | Panel discussion on "Fiscal Space and National Development Strategies" |
| 2005 | New York | Side Events during the 60th Session of the General Assembly |
| 1-2 December 2005 | New York | Ad Hoc Expert Group meeting on "Rethinking the role of National Development Banks" |
| 2005-2006 | Seminars on GDP-indexed Bonds | |
| 20 September 2004 | New York | World Leaders Meeting on "Action Against Hunger and Poverty"
(The "Action Against Hunger and Poverty" meeting of world leaders was held on 20 September 2004, from 3:00 to 6:00 PM in the ECOSOC Chamber at United Nations Headquarters in New York. 61 Heads of State or Government participated in the event, chaired by H.E. Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil. 111 Governmsents signed on to the New York Declaration on Action against Hunger and Poverty, which highlighted the need to raise development assistance levels and to give further attention to innovative mechanisms of financing, in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals.) |
| 14-15 July 2004 | New York | Seminar on "Regional Financial Arrangements" |
| 15 June 2004 | São Paulo, Brazil | High-level panel on Innovative Sources of Financing for Development |