Tagung: "Finanzkrise & Entwicklungsländer"

17.11.2008: "Financial Crash, Food Speculation & Development" International Workshop

Organised by:
Church Development Service, an Association of the Protestant Churches in Germany
WEED - World Economy, Ecology & Development Assoc.

Berlin, 17th November 2008, 10:30h - 17:30h
Ort: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Haus, Ziegelstraße 30

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Programme

10:30 h Welcome Peter Lanzet, Church Development Service, EED

11:00 Financial markets, crisis & Development - Introduction
Input: Peter Wahl, WEED

11:45 The Effects of the Financial Crash on the Developing Countries
Input: Yilmaz Akjüz, former chief economist of UNCTAD

13:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Speculation and Food Price Hike
Input: Stephan Schulmeister, Austrian Institute of Economic Research - WIFO

14:30 Speculation and Food Price Hike
Input: Stephan Schulmeister, Austrian Institute of Economic Research - WIFO

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 The Role of Hedgefunds and other Institutional Investors in Developing Countries - The case of India
Input: Kavaljith Singh; Public Interest Research Group, New Delhi

16:45 Towards a developmentally friendly regulation of financial markets
Inputs: Yilmaz Akyüz

17:30 h Closing