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Ngaire Woods and Leonardo Martinez Diaz present the findings outlined in their new briefing drawing out specific lessons as to how emerging and developing countries might best use the new G20 Leaders group. This event, The G20: perils and opportunities for developing countries, was held on the 26th Nov 2009, from 13.00-14.30 at ODI's offices in London.

Date of Production: 
Nov 2009
Author: 
ODI
Length: 
20min.
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Ha-Joon Chang, a Reader at Cambridge University, discusses the role of industrial policy in promoting development. This event The role of industrial policy in development was held on the 15th October 2009, from 09.00-10.45, at ODI's offices in London.

Date of Production: 
Nov 2009
Author: 
overseasdevelopment
Length: 
20min.
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VOA's Paul Ndiho reports on the controversy over the World Bank funds for projects in South Sudan.

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
TV2Africa
Length: 
3min.
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Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner debates plans for the International Monetary Fund to collect $100 billion a year from member nations to fund climate change initiatives.

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
Fox News
Length: 
5min.
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* Strauss-Kahn proposes “Green Fund” to help finance shift to low-carbon world
* Says IMF to release proposals in a few weeks
* Fund could be created partly through issuance of IMF’s special drawing rights (SDRs)

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Length: 
87min.
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Antonia Juhasc launches a book on the history of the World Bank and IMF at Cody's bookshop in San Francisco.

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
ericbs5247
Length: 
8min.
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With so much wealth in the world,
why is there still poverty?

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
IIX666XII
Length: 
3min.
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Financial markets in turmoil, energy price rises, food riots, violent conflicts and environmental disasters. And whatever the disaster, poor and marginalised people are always affected the most.... It doesn't have to be this way.

Meena Raman · Trevor Ngwane · Susan George · Tariq Ramadan · Mark Thomas · Bianca Jagger. Chair: Asad Rehman.

Date of Production: 
Mar 2009
Author: 
Zoe Young
Length: 
98min.
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Sometimes in history, political and business leaders are pushed to make momentous decisions—decisions that mean real change, and have great impact.

Such decisions are never made lightly, but rather because the alternative is too dire to contemplate.

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
who knows
Length: 
1min.
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World Economic Forum seminar

In 2009, the G20 tasked the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to develop "macro-prudential tools" to combat systemic risk.

What structural deficiencies still persist in the regulation of systemic financial risk and how will they be addressed in 2010?

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
World Economic Forum
Length: 
77min.
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10,000 Bodies Buried Daily in Quake Aftermath; Medical Group Faults US Militarization of Haitian Relief;
IMF Drops Conditions on $100M Haiti Loan...

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
Democracy Now
Length: 
10min.
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Journalist and author Naomi Klein addressing the crisis in Haiti: “We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no circumstances, be used to, 1, further indebt Haiti and, 2, push through unpopular policies in the interest of our corporations. This is not conspiracy theory. They have done it again and again.”

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
Democracy Now
Length: 
4min.
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This event on the IMF's role during the global financial crisis featured Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of CEPR, James Roaf of the IMF, Public Citizen's new president, Robert Weissman, Asia Russell, the director of Health GAP, and Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director of the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition.

Date of Production: 
Oct 2009
Author: 
CEPR
Length: 
60min.
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The beginning of CEPR, Social Security, the stock bubble, initial expectations for CEPR, the media, IMF, OECD, Europe.

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
CEPR
Length: 
20min.
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The Real News - Raj Patel: International trade rules have ravaged Haiti's domestic food production

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
The Real News
Length: 
3min.
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Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
khuwajaaltaf
Length: 
7min.
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A film by the Forum on Readiness for REDD that captures voices from the climate change and deforestation debate.

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
the REDD desk
Length: 
1min.
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Conducted some road side interviews from the people of different Strata, just to have an idea what do they think about the aid and loan we get from US and IMF.

Part of our final project presentation
Comments and Queries would be really appreciated.

-Tech Assistance: Abdur Rehman
-Cameraman: Usman Qamar
-Producer: Fatema and Naureen
-Anchor, Editor, Director: Murtaza

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
Murtazazu
Length: 
5min.
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Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
OECD
Length: 
5min.
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Stewart Maginnis director of environment and development at the IUCN speaks on forest dialogue initiative at COP15.

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
ediedotnet
Length: 
6min.
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Michael Ellis (1st Secretary for Global Issues - British Embassy Brasília) talks to David Stanton, DFID Deputy for World Bank Reform, about Brazilian perspective on International Financial Institutions.

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
rukinbrazil
Length: 
5min.
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The two main factions in Zimbabwe's unity government have clashed over how to spend half a billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund, in a dispute that could create further tensions in the already shaky coalition.

The country's finance minister, Tendai Biti, of the Movement for Democratic Change, has earmarked about $50m of

Date of Production: 
Dec 2009
Author: 
Al Jazeera English
Length: 
3min.
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In the Committee of the Regions side event, Blogactiv spoke to Simon Brooks, Vice President of the European Investment Bank about the role of cities and local authorities in countering climate change.

Date of Production: 
Dec 2009
Author: 
BlogactivTV
Length: 
4min.
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Short round table session with Elisabeth Schroedter MEP, Anelia Stefanova (CEE Bankwatch Network) and Julien Dijol (CECODHAS) in framework of the conference "Climate Proofing EU Structural and Cohesion Funds", hosted by Elisabeth Schroedter.

Date of Production: 
Jan 2010
Author: 
ElisabethSchroedter
Length: 
4min.
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John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, blames Iceland's economic collapse on the tactics of economic hit men from multi-national corporations .

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Date of Production: 
Nov 2009
Author: 
ForaTV
Length: 
3min.