PARIS - OFCE Economic Research Centre
Sciences PO Paris
- G20, and After…
- Revival - Regulation - Reform
United Nations, Interactive Thematic Dialogue with the General Assembly,
25-27 March 2009
(www.un.org/ga/president/63/interactive/worldfinancialcrisis.shtml)
Recommendations by the Commission of Experts, Joseph Stiglitz (Prize
Nobel winner), President of the commission, Research fellow at OFCE,
Jean-Paul Fitoussi
(www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/fitoussi/accueil_fitou.html), President
of the Sub-commission, “Macro-issues and perspectives”.
- List of members of the Commission
(www0.un.org/ga/president/63/commission/members.shtml)
- Programme
(www.un.org/ga/president/63/letters/programme_fcrisis200309.pdf)
- The recommendations of the Commission of Experts of the President of
the General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and
Financial System
www.un.org/ga/president/63/letters/recommendationExperts200309.pdf
Letter to the honorable Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom, 17 March 2009
(www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/pdf/documents/letterG20-2009.pdf)
This letter has been written by Edmund Phelps (Prize Nobel winner),
Research fellow at OFCE and director of the Center on Capitalism and Society
(capitalism.columbia.edu/) - Columbia University-, of which Jean-Paul
Fitoussi (www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/fitoussi/accueil_fitou.html) is a
member, following the 6th Annual Conference of the Center on “Emerging from
the Financial Crisis”.
About OFCE:
Sciences Po’s Economic Research Centre - The French Economic Observatory,
or OFCE - is chaired by Jean-Paul Fitoussi, university professor at the
Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris. The OFCE is both a university research
centre and an institution for forecasting and evaluating public policies. It
brings together over 40 French and international researchers, including
several internationally renowned research fellows and three Nobel Prize
laureates.
For more information: www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/
Source: OFCE
Contact : Sylvie le Golvan, Telephone number : +33(0)1-44-18-54-07, E-mail : sylvie.legolvan at ofce.sciences-po.fr
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Sciences PO Paris
- G20, and After...
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