::: 2009 Debt Management Conference :::


UNCTAD's Seventh Debt Management Conference will take place in Geneva from 9 to 11 November 2009, followed by the 7th DMFAS Advisory Group from 12 to 13 November 2009.

This Conference — organized every two years by UNCTAD — provides a regular forum for sharing experiences and exchanging views between Governments, international organizations, academia, the private financial sector, and civil society on current issues in debt management.

It brings together senior-level national and international debt managers and experts from around the world to discuss some of the most pertinent topics in both external and domestic debt, debt management and public finance today. More than 250 participants from over 70 countries, as well as senior representatives of international and regional institutions participated in the last Conference, held in November 2007.

This year the Conference will look at the following topical issues:

  1. The impact of the current financial crisis on debt  and debt management, such as the global burgeoning debt and the implications for developing countries,
  2. The use and limitations of risk indicators in debt management,
  3. Debt defaults and debt crises,
  4. Illegitimate debt,
  5. Roles and responsibilities of debt managers and the scope of and limitations to these roles,
  6. Transparency in debt management,
  7. The auditor and debt management,
  8. The challenges of implementing debt strategies and impact measurement in debt management.

Relevant documents:


Links:
2007 Debt Management Conference



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