This panel discussion, which featured Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director at Center for Economic and Policy Research; Hugh Bredenkamp, Deputy Director of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department at the IMF; Doug Rediker, Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation; and Robert Weismann, Director of Essential Action, looked at the economic issues involved in current IMF l

In this video, CIGI Chair in International Governance Eric Helleiner summarizes the key findings of his recent briefing paper, "From London to L'Aquila: Building a Bridge between the G20 and G8," co-authored with Paola Subacchi (Chatham House and CIGI, June 2009). Dr Helleiner identifies the need for long-term solutions in a tme when focus has been on crisis management.

Tax havens are widely blamed as one of the root causes of the global economic crisis.

At the G20 summit in April, world leaders promised to launch a crackdown on tax havens. But so far, little appears to have changed.

Al Jazeera's Hamish Macdonald begins his investigation in the European principality of Monaco.

Pieza informativa en los informativos de TVE2 sobre la reunión en El Escorial, Madrid, de la Red Internacioanal BankTrack. En esta reunión han participado cerca de 30 ONG de EEUU, Europa, China y Latinoamérica, especializadas en la observación y vigilancia del sector financiero privado.

How is it that an institution with an explicit mandate to promote development in the global South is financing companies who purposefully weasel out of paying revenues to the world's poorest governments, while extracting their natural resources and disrupting the livelihoods of local communities?

A group of unidentified aliens have made contact with Earth during an ongoing high-level dialogue on climate and clean energy at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in central Metro Manila.

Can anyone really own water? There's a 400 billion $ of global business made by corporations out of the blue gold every year. Water is a resource for your life, not a private property. Who controls the resources of life now will soon controls the rest of all things.

Jon Perkins author of the best selling book: "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" is interviewed on Icelandic TV about the economic implosion that Iceland has experienced and who is responsible for it. The interview leads to many of the issues discussed in his book.

How does the mining sector work in Africa? Our friends at Counter Balance (http://counterbalance-eib.org) have produced another cartoon in their series on the EIB in the Global South, this time about the impacts of resource extraction in developing countries.

To request a copy of the video please contact Ms. Mary Louise Malig at marylou[at]focusweb.org