development agenda

From 23 to 26 October the Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) conducted the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) of the CDP Subgroup on least developed countries (LDCs) in Geneva, Switzerland to (i) discuss issues related to the review of t ...

The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) will be participating at various events of the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development, taking place from 9 - 18 July 2018. The theme of this meeting, convened under the auspices of the Ec ...

Pingfan Hong, Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs delivered a keynote speech at the 2nd Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Event held in Vienna, Austria from 26 to 28 Sept ...

In a Development Policy Seminar held in New York yesterday, Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow at Bruegel in Brussels and Visiting Fellow from the Peterson Institute for International Economics, argued that the effectiveness of post-crisis reforms in financial regulation in making global finance more stable is not so far proven. In his presentation, he showed that unintended consequences of the reforms are appearing gradually, even as their initial implementation is still unfinished. In his view, the G20 has established neither an adequate institutional infrastructure nor a consistent policy vision for a globally integrated financial system. This shortcoming justifies increasing concerns about economically harmful market fragmentation. One key aim, according to Véron, should be to make international regulatory bodies more representative of the rapidly-changing geography of global finance, not only in terms of their membership but also of their leadership and location.