Summer school hot debates: Debt, money and finance 10 years after the crash
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- Susana Olivares
The September 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers brought the international financial system to the edge of collapse. Ten years later, has global finance become safer, simpler,and fairer?
During September 3–7, 2018, UNCTAD’s Division on Globalization and Development Strategies hosted a summer school in Geneva (“Money, finance and debt: Old debates, new challenges”) to consider these questions and more. Co-organized with the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s (INET) Young Scholars Initiative, the weeklong gathering drew policymakers and scholars of all ages from 23 countries, who debated topics far and wide: money, finance and hyper-globalization, perspectives on financialization, financing for development and the Sustainable Development Goals, illicit financial flows and cryptocurrencies, and sovereign debt and development.
The UNCTAD Virtual Institute (Vi) was there to capture it all, as well as conduct one-on-one interviews with various experts. Here are some highlights.
The Virtual Institute, with sponsoring from the Government of Finland, will offer scholarships to all selected participants of the 2018 edition of the Vi online course on Economic Analysis of Non-Tariff Measures, to be held 
UNCTAD and the Young Scholars Initiative invite Vi members to participate in 
UNCTAD and the Center for Industrial Policy and Development of Vi Turkish core member, the 
From 14 to 18 May 2018, the Vi organized a series of six presentations for 17 students of the Master's programme in International Trade Policy of Vi core member, the University of the West Indies (UWI).
