{"id":10559,"date":"2011-09-16T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=10559"},"modified":"2016-08-30T09:47:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T13:47:48","slug":"capital-flows-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2011\/09\/16\/capital-flows-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Center Hosts Task Force on “Managing Capital Flows for Long-run Development”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"taskforce9-16\"<\/a>The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a Pardee Center Task Force meeting on Sept. 16 on \u201cManaging Capital Flows for Long-run Development.\u201d Held in the Kenmore Conference Room at Boston University, the Task Force meeting was convened by Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher<\/a> in collaboration with Jos\u00e9 Antonio Ocampo<\/a> and Stephany Griffith-Jones<\/a> of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue<\/a> (IPD) at Columbia University. (A full list of meeting participants is below.)<\/p>\n

The Pardee Center Task Force was convened by the Pardee Center and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue specifically to address important questions concerning whether and how capital investments between developed and developing countries should be \u201cregulated\u201d or \u201cmanaged.\u201d While investment is essential for the development process, a growing proportion of foreign investment in developing countries is in the form of short-term \u201chot\u201d money that has been shown to be extremely volatile and leaves developing country financial systems very vulnerable.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the global financial crisis and in the absence of subsequent global cooperation it is becoming increasingly understood that national governments need to deploy regulations to manage the flow of speculative capital such that it does not disrupt their long-run development prospects.<\/p>\n

Although international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund are beginning to recognize this need, there currently are no set guidelines to help national governments respond to speculative capital and to consider the extent to which there should be global cooperation to manage capital flows.<\/p>\n

The explicit goal of the Pardee Center Task Force is to put the concerns of developing countries and the process of economic development at center stage. The central question the Task Force will address is: to what extent can capital account regulations be deployed by developing countries and coordinated at a global level so that they can enable financial stability for economic development?<\/p>\n

Two publications stemming from the Task Force meeting will be published by the Pardee Center. The first will be a policy brief to be published later this fall and the second will be a full Pardee Center Task Force Report, including short papers by each of the Task Force members, to be published in 2012. The publications are key components of a larger initiative co-sponsored by The Pardee Center, IPD and the Global Development and Environment Institute<\/a> (GDAE) at Tufts University to facilitate dialogue among policy makers and other experts on the topic of capital flows management.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the three co-chairs, the Task Force members include:<\/p>\n

Amar Bhattacharya<\/a>, G-24 Secretariat<\/p>\n

Gerald Epstein<\/a>, University of Massachusetts<\/p>\n

Ilene Grabel, University of Denver<\/p>\n

Rakesh Mohan<\/a>, Yale University<\/p>\n

Shari Spiegel<\/a>, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs<\/p>\n

Arvind Subramanian<\/a>, Peterson Institute for International Economics<\/p>\n

Shinji Takagi, Osaka University<\/p>\n

Ming Zhang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences<\/p>\n

Others who participated in the meeting include Paulo Nogueira Batista, Junior, the Executive Director representing Brazil and eight other countries in the region at the IMF (who also was the featured speaker at a Pardee Center Luncheon<\/a> on Sept. 16); Mark Blyth<\/a> from Brown University; Leonardo Burlamaqui, from the Ford Foundation, Dani Rodrik from Harvard University; Prof. William Grimes<\/a>, chair of the BU International Relations Department; Joanna Miller of GDAE; Cynthia Barakatt of the Pardee Center; and Tania Tzelnic, a BU graduate student in International Relations who served as rapporteur for the meeting.<\/p>\n

The Pardee Center Task Force is part of the Center\u2019s larger Global Economic Governance Initiative research program led by Prof. Gallagher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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