Special Drawing Rights: Saving the Global Economy and Bolstering Recovery in Pandemic Times
This virtual seminar will feature high-level policymakers and experts from Latin America, Africa, the UN, the IMF and the Vatican to discuss:
- What role can Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) play in global pandemic crisis response and recovery?
- How can SDR transfer mechanisms be designed to maximize impact for all countries that need support, while avoiding harm?
- Is there a role for global, regional and sub-regional development banks and/or new trust funds or vehicles in the mechanisms?
- What complementary policies and reforms could help, in the short and the long term?
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The Night of Global Social Rights
This dialogical, collective and Global effort for defining Social Rights will be the aim of this event, 24 hours of an international conversation organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, dix-milliards-humains, and Civic City association, within the framework of the « The week of all possibilities » that will be held in Geneva, Switzerland and worldwide on the social media between the 12th and 17th April 2021.
Global Policy Forum will contribute to the event with an intervention at 4pm (UTC+2).
Please find further information on the event here.
Private Sector Accountability in times of Crisis
Arab NGO Network for Development and Global Policy Forum - Session
IFIs have been promoting the role of the private sector in job creation and sustainable development, through limiting the role of the public sector, incentivizing PPPs and promoting the creation of an enabling environment for businesses and investments. Meanwhile, civil Society has been advocating for holding the private sector, as a development actor, accountable for human rights. Additionally, the current health crisis revealed more challenges related to the role and the priorities of the private sector especially in the [...]