GDN 12th Annual Conference

In the shadow of the global financial crisis, development finance has an uncertain and challenging future. External capital flows are extremely volatile and are concentrating mainly in certain developing countries and emerging markets, private capital flows and remittances are in decline in the poorest countries in the world, while many donors are currently struggling to honour their aid commitments. Add to these, the growing complexity of the development finance ‘system’ and a new landscape in this area seems to have emerged.
 
GDN’s 12th Annual Conference, which takes place in January 2011 in Bogotá, aims to put the spotlight on this issue by bringing together some of the brightest minds to challenge and develop current thinking. Finding alternative and innovative sources of development finance is crucially important: there can be no slippage in the fight against poverty.