MONTERREY CONSENSUS – DOHA CONFERENCES - March 30th and 31st - 2009
This is a huge Meeting. It's all about the global economy, WTO, etc......I provided a link (at bottom of page).
There is so much information and there have been so many extensive meetings over the past 10-years. The "Monterrey Consensus" and the "Doha Round" have been the foundation of a new financial order. There are links and info. provided below. Check it out.
Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus Doha, Qatar, 29 November - 2 December 2008
General Assembly resolution 62/187 mandates the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to "assess progress made, reaffirm goals and commitments, share best practices and lessons learned and identify obstacles and constraints encountered, actions and initiatives to overcome them and important measures for further implementation, as well as new challenges and emerging issues".
Substantive Background InformationDoha draft outcome document Calendar of drafting sessions (October - November 2008) documents
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/doha/
going to post (add) links here....Topics worth reading.
This one is really good. lot's of information
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/doha/press/11NOV08PressRelease_Crisis.pdf
And......Another Huge Meeting...
G20 Meeting In London April 2nd - 2009
The game plan for the G20 is to have everything completed before the April 2, 2009 meeting in London. We will probably see an unusual amount of meetings and activity during the next 3 weeks. IMO, they want to begin implementing their plans for the the new world/global economy as soon as possible. Be prepared for major changes. I wouldn't be surprised if we find out this week which banks will become nationalized (or partially nationalized or become "bad" banks). IMO
(well it's 7 months later now...??)
What is the London Summit?
The London Summit brings together world leaders and financial institutions on April 2 to reach agreement on how to revive the world economy.
The summit aims to find solutions to the current global economic crisis and build upon the action plan agreed at the Washington Summit last November.
G20 pledges all action to fix the system
Finance chiefs from the G20 leading old and new economies yesterday pledged to take all necessary action to protect major financial institutions, fix the global financial system and revive lending.
That will include maintaining liquidity support, ensuring banks have adequate capital and dealing with impaired assets, finance ministers from the Group of 20 countries said in a statement at the end of a meeting preparing for a G20 leaders' summit on April 2.
They also said central banks will maintain expansionary policies as long as is needed and that governments' fiscal commitments already pledged should be implemented without delay. The G20 said its "key priority" was to restore lending, adding it was "committed" to help developing economies cope with the reversal of capital flows, in a final communique at talks yesterday.
The G20 also agreed to "regulatory oversight" of all credit ratings agencies, which are under fire for being too slow to alert investors to the dangers of high-risk investments.
G20 finance ministers have agreed to a cash boost for the IMF but no new stimulus plan, ahead of next month's key summit on the economic crisis, a European source said. Politicians from the world's richest countries – the United States, China and Japan – plus wealthy European nations and emerging powers held a day of talks to pave the way for the April 2 G20 London summit on tackling the downturn.
