Leading Group on Solidarity Levies

Civil Society Statement: G20: Take Action on FTT

To sign on to this letter, send the name of the organization and country in which it is based by 5PM Washington DC time on November 3rd to Amy Gray: amy@campaignforeducation.org

International Civil Society Statement to the G-20 Leaders Summit in Seoul

We, the undersigned civil society organizations from 32 countries, urge G-20 leaders to make concrete progress towards the introduction of an internationally coordinated financial transactions tax (FTT) at the upcoming summit in Seoul.

Presentation to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on the Financial Transactions Tax

Innovative mechanisms for financing development, and in particular the Financial Transactions Tax

by Fraser Reilly-King, Coordinator, Halifax Initiative Coalition
May 6, 2010

My name is Fraser Reilly-King and I am the Coordinator of the Halifax Initiative, a coalition of eighteen development, environment, faith-based, human rights and labour organizations. We focus on international finance issues, in particular with respect to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and export credit agencies.

Letter to IMF Head Strauss-Kahn from over 90 groups re. civil society participation in IMF study on how the financial sector can help pay for the bailouts - November 11, 2009

November 11, 2009

Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Managing Director
International Monetary Fund,
700 19th Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20431

Dear Mr. Strauss-Kahn:

Re: Request for civil society participation in IMF study on how the financial sector can help pay for the bailouts 

In September, the Group of 20 (G20), at their summit in Pittsburgh, mandated the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with preparing a report ahead of the next G20 summit in June 2010 to consider “how the financial sector could make a fair and substantial contribution toward paying for any burdens associated with government interventions to repair the banking system.”

FAQs - Leading Group on Solidarity Levies for Development

The Halifax Initiative would like to thank John Foster, North-South Institute, for his help in developing these FAQs 

Revised November 2007

How is development normally financed?
Why is an initiative on innovative financing necessary?
What are the origins of the innovative financing mechanism process?
What is the Leading Group, and how is it organized?
Who are the members of the leading group?
Why isn't Canada a member?
Is civil society involved?
Who has chaired the leading group?
Where will the next meeting be? Who is taking over the Presidency of the group?		 What are some of the initiatives to come out of this process, and the individual presidencies?
So what have some of the “implemented” measures achieved?
What do these initiatives seek to achieve?
What else has been discussed?
How does this process relate to the Monterrey Financing for Development process? How does it feed into Monterrey/Doha?
What can I do?
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