Financing

Srgjan Kerim

Assembly President hails ‘active contribution’ to finance for development meeting

25 October 2007
The “active contribution” by more than 90 delegations at a three-day United Nations meeting augured well for a major conference on financing for development next year, General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim said today at the conclusion of the meeting.

Economic restructuring schemes must consider rights of poor, says UN expert

25 October 2007
International financial institutions and wealthy States imposing structural reform programmes on poor countries or executing debt repayments should ensure that when doing so they do not undermine basic cultural, social and economic rights, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today.

Participants in UN forum highlight crucial role of development financing

24 October 2007
Countries rich and poor continued their discussion of finance for development during the second day of a high-level dialogue organized by the General Assembly, focusing on an anti-poverty partnership sealed five years ago in Monterrey, Mexico.
Srgjan Kerim, President of the 62nd session of the General Assembly

At UN Assembly, ministers discuss new push to finance development

23 October 2007
The future of development financing is under discussion at a High-Level United Nations event in New York that has attracted the participation of ministers, central bank governors, government delegates and representatives of business and civil society, meeting to advance a 2002 agreement made in Monterrey, Mexico.
Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General backs efforts for more innovative forms of finance for development

4 September 2007
Finding new flows of development finance is crucial if the world is to meet its ambitious series of anti-poverty goals by the target date of 2015, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told a meeting of an international group of rich and poor nations set up to promote more innovative ways of financing.