Rick Rowden Presents New Book on IMF, Health, and AIDS - Part 1

ifitv-admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:23:39 +0000

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Who Owes Who

zoeyoung — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:06:00 +0000

Committee for the Integral Audit of Public Credit. Report of the event, part 1. Ecuador.

The Robin Hood Tax - A Good Idea

zoeyoung — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:32:31 +0000

Bill Nighy appears in a video backing a Robin Hood tax on banks to raise billions of pounds to fight poverty and climate change.

Idris Elbai: Drop Haiti's Debt

ifitv-admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:53:02 +0000

Idris Elbai has joined the Oxfam campaign calling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to drop Haiti's Debt.

Political Cafe on the European Investment Bank

ifitv-admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:15:58 +0000

On the 20th of November 2009 the Dutch NGO Both ENDS organised a Political Cafe in The Hague. In the debate a diverse panel gave their opinion on investments made by the European Investment Bank. This bank invested in a hydro-power dam in Uganda and a paper pulp mill in Brazil. In Both cases the local population and the environment were severely damaged.

IMF at Davos Proposes another "Green Fund" for Climate Change Financing

zoeyoung — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:25:14 +0000

* Strauss-Kahn proposes “Green Fund” to help finance shift to low-carbon world
* Says IMF to release proposals in a few weeks
* Fund could be created partly through issuance of IMF’s special drawing rights (SDRs)

A History of Opposition to the World Bank

ifitv-admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:48:40 +0000

Antonia Juhasc launches a book on the history of the World Bank and IMF at Cody's bookshop in San Francisco.

The 40th World Economic Forum - eradicating poverty by the simplest, most obvious means possible

zoeyoung — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:41:40 +0000

Sometimes in history, political and business leaders are pushed to make momentous decisions—decisions that mean real change, and have great impact.

Such decisions are never made lightly, but rather because the alternative is too dire to contemplate.

Davos Annual Meeting 2010 - Rethinking Systemic Financial Risk

ifitv-admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:24:54 +0000

World Economic Forum seminar

In 2009, the G20 tasked the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to develop "macro-prudential tools" to combat systemic risk.

What structural deficiencies still persist in the regulation of systemic financial risk and how will they be addressed in 2010?

Why can't Haiti feed itself? (1/3 from YouTube)

zoeyoung — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:25:49 +0000

The Journalist, Marc Mathieu, and Lawyer, Serge Angrand discuss free trade and liberalization impact on Haiti agriculture.