(e) Relationship between the United Nations and international finance and trade institutions

VIII. Relationship between the United Nations and international finance and trade institutions

There was a call for enhanced interaction between the Council and the international trade and finance institutions.

Finance Institutions (Asociación Latinoamericana de Instituciones XVII(I)

The facility links four key groups, comprising local authorities, community based organizations, local finance institutions and international donor programmes.

Partnerships will replicate the model developed by UNCTAD with the cooperation of the Government of Luxembourg and the International Bank of Luxembourg. They will involve international banks and asset managers, micro finance institutions, and Governments in order to improve the conditions in which micro finance institutions obtain resources in international capital markets.

(i) Inviting the international and regional financial and development institutions to channel additional resources to developing countries to finance sustainable forest management

But most important would be the role of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the two major international financial institutions, as well as other regional institutions that facilitate access to finance in these countries.

International trade and development finance

F. International business and finance

Another would be to extend loan guarantees that support international borrowing by domestic financial institutions specialized in urban infrastructure lending or low cost housing finance.

Development institutions today are also opening for public scrutiny the projects they finance.

(c) International commercial and finance law.

From 1994 onwards, financial institutions such as banks, finance and insurance companies were included.

Developing finance institutions and financial products suitable to the needs of the urban poor

ALIDE Latin American Association of Development Finance Institutions (Asociación Latinoamericana de Instituciones XVII(I)

Indeed, international institutions have spearheaded breakthroughs in a wide range of areas, including health, finance, economics, human rights, and peacekeeping. But such institutions are largely perceived as inaccessible, inefficient, and opaque, leading national governments to neglect them.

One of the office's crucial functions would be to mobilize funds from development finance institutions.

UN Habitat will continue to position itself as a broker between Governments at all levels and international finance institutions to promote the development of affordable housing and infrastructure.

Rethinking International Institutions

International financial institutions

It would also complement the International Finance Facility.

Policy dialogue and discussion on important developments in the world economy and international economic cooperation with executive heads of international trade and finance institutions of the United Nations system, on key issues on the global economy

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) International Finance Corporation (IFC) International Labour Organization (ILO) International Maritime Organization (IMO)

Ms. Dilek Aykut, Economist, International Finance Team, World Bank

3 International Finance Statistics Yearbook (Washington, D.C., IMF, 1995).

International and regional institutions

8. Urges relevant entities of the United Nations system, including agencies, funds and programmes, and invites international and regional development finance institutions to take concrete measures to incorporate the perspective of persons with disabilities, including accessibility requirements, in development cooperation and development finance activities

14. The following non governmental organizations were represented Association of African Development Finance Institutions, Austrian Senior Experts Pool, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, International Academy of Technological Sciences and World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises.

Experience showed that seed money provided by informal or specialized institutions for SME finance could often play an important role in allowing SMEs to gain access to institutionalized finance.

Rwanda, too, has enacted regulations that eliminate exclusive agreements, opening doors for micro finance institutions to become payment service providers. The South African Reserve Bank has created a special platform within its national payment system for micro finance institutions and non banks.

Testimony presented at the hearings on the environmental policies of multilateral development banks held by the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on International Development Institutions and Finance, 29 June 1983.

Director, International Tax Division, Korean Ministry of Finance and Economy.

Director, International Tax Policy Division, Tax Bureau, Ministry of Finance.

Campaigning to Reform International Institutions

Role of international financial institutions

International financial and trade institutions

International financial institutions and assistance

For example, the total number of UNMISET international advisers in the finance and banking institutions has declined from 35 two years ago, when I arrived in Timor Leste, to 16 last year.

B. Review of the capabilities and modalities of the international monetary and development finance institutions to respond to crises induced by large scale capital movements Strengthening preventive mechanisms multilateral and regional surveillance

Encourage financial institutions to actively with law enforcement and other investigative agencies in sharing information on illicit finance activity.

National teams will comprise members from national research institutions and Ministries of Finance, Social Affairs, Education and Public Health.

There are a number of development oriented venture capital funds, and there has also been a trend among international and national development finance institutions to set up venture capital funds in developing countries.

Recalling its resolution 50 227 of 24 May 1996, annex I, section VIII, on the relationship between the United Nations and the international finance and trade institutions, as well as other relevant resolutions,

Contributions to other multilateral institutions were also identified in four of these national communications (FIN Nordic Development Fund, European Community) (ISL Nordic Environment Finance Corporation) (BEL, NZL International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)).