No-one left behind? The shortcomings of the GFSN during COVID-19. 04/05/2022
Channel: UNCTADMeetings
Date: 13/09/2022

The webinar provides an opportunity to showcase the Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN) tracker with emphasis on the relative importance of the different liquidity options and the income-group profile during the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop brings together experts on the GFSN, representatives of member countries, policymakers and central bankers from beneficiary countries.

It provides a better understanding of the global liquidity options to developing countries, including their conditionalities and accessibility to different countries and regions. Moreover, it explores ways to leverage the comparative strengths of each GFSN element through coordination to safeguard better access of LICs and MICs to the GFSN.

Moderator: Penelope Hawkins (Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Debt and Development Finance Branch/UNCTAD).

Opening remarks: Richard Kozul-Wright (Director of the DGDS/UNCTAD) and Kevin Gallagher (GDP Center/Boston University).

Presentation GFSN tracker: Barbara Fritz, Institute for Latin American Studies/  Freie Universität and Laurissa Mühlich, Research associate, Global Financial Safety Net tracker.

Juan Pablo Paincera, Advisor, Central Bank of Brazil.

Candelaria Alvarez Moroni, Undersecretary for International Coordination (Ministry of Economy, Argentina).

More: https://mobilizingdevfinance.org/activity/no-one-left-behind-shortcomings-global-financial-safety-net-low-and-middle-income