Archive for June, 2008

Broughton-Bradford: Challenges to Global Governance to the G8

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

James Boughton and Colin Bradford published an article in the IMF-Magazine "Finance and Development" in December 2007 called "Global Governance: New Players, New Rules", in which they questioned the governance capability of the G8. They define ideal global governance as such: The ideal of global governance is a process of cooperative leadership ...

G8-Action Plan on Local Bond Markets - Missing Follow-Up Documents

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

The overview of G8 Action Plan on Local Bond Markets lists a couple of documents that were mentioned in the implementation report to be published soon, but have not been published since: IMF: "ABS in Emerging Markets: Recent Trends and Policy Implications" Capital Markets Consultative Group (CMCG): Study about the Impediments ...

G8 Action Plan on Local Currency Bond Markets - Overview

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The Document contains an overview of the G8 Action Plan on the developments of local currency bond markets and the implementation report. The overview-report looks at the problems identified by the G8 Action Plans, Task delegated to various institutions and results given from the implementation report. It is subdivided into ten ...

Membership of Key Economies in International Organisations

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

This article discusses the membership of 43 key economies in the major international financial institutions. The aim is to assess whether the global financial architecture adequately incorporates the key economies. The article can also be found in this PDF-Document. The chart (left) lists 21 international organizations. Some of them are grouped ...