Workshop on Financing for Development:
Policy Challenges,
 March 9, 2002

This workshop was organized in preparation of the UN High Level Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, March 18-22, 2002. The workshop discussed the Report of the Zedillo Panel on “Financing for Development” and the “UN Draft outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development: Moneterrey Consensus”, and the RIS study on the subject as reported earlier.  Among others, Mr. Prodipto Ghosh, Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office and a member of the Indian delegation; Dr B.S. Minhas; Mr. Sumeet Jerath, Director (UN), Ministry of Finance; Shri Ashok Desai; Shri Shrawan Nigam, Economic Adviser, Ministry of Commerce; Professor Ashok Parthasarathi, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, JNU; Dr J.D. Agarwal, Indian Institute of Finance; participated in the workshop.   A small write-up on the outcome of the workshop was prepared and circulated among the members of the Indian delegation for the Monterrey Conference.