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2008

GENERAL

•  G20 Washington Summit, Declaration of the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy, November 2008
• G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit: Leader’s statement on the global economy, July 2008
• Publications of Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems last 5 years
• Publications of the Committee on the Global Financial System last 5 years
• Markets Committee Monetary Policy Frameworks and Central Bank Market Operations June 2008
• “Whither monetary policy? Monetary policy challenges in the decade ahead” – issued March 2009, relating to Annual Conference June 2008
  Transition Report 2008 – Growth in Transition
  Summary
  Report: by subscription
• Report on Enhancing Market and Institutional Resilience, 7 April 2008 
  Update on Implementation, 2 April 2009
• IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) “Financial Stress, Downturns, and Recoveries”, October 2008
  Summary
  Report
• Global Financial Crisis: Implications for South Asia, 21 October 2008
• 7th Asia-Europe Meeting, October, 25 October 2008
  Summary 
  Full text
• Report of Renee Ricol to the President of the French Republic in the context of the 2008 French Presidency of the EU, September 2008
• World Economic Forum Report 'Europe@Risk 2008'
• BIS Paper: “Monetary and financial stability implications of capital flows in Latin America and the Caribbean” November 2008 relating to March 2008 conference
  Summary
  Report
• Report of the Seminar on the Global Financial Crisis and the Caribbean: “Impact and Response”, issued by the Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados, 3 December 2008
• Report of Australian Financial Reporting Council to joint IASB/FASB Roundtable on Global Credit Crisis – December 2008.
  Summary
  Report
• Reserve Bank of Australia – Annual Report 14 August 2008
• Trend and Progress of Banking in India, issued by the Reserve Bank of India, December 2008
• 'Global Financial Crisis and Key Risks: Impact on India and Asia'
  Rakesh Mohan Deputy Governor Reserve Bank of India
  Remarks prepared for IMF-FSF High-Level Meeting at Washington DC, 9 October 2008
• Annual Report Reserve Bank of India – 29 August 2008
• World Economic Forum Report India at Risk 2008
• 'Global Financial Crisis and Policy Responses by the Bank of Japan', speech by the Governor of the Bank of Japan to the Japan Business Federation 22 Dec 2008
• Bank of England Financial Stability Report October 2008
  Summary
  Report
• 'The US Financial Crisis: The Global Dimension with Implications for US Policy' – Congressional Research Service – 10 November 2008
• 'Averting Financial Crisis' – Congressional Research Service, updated 21 March 2008
• Capital Market Development Task Force – Interim Report on the Financial Crisis comprising measures recommended to be taken by the New Zealand Government, November 2008

REPORTS BY INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND FORA 

Bank for International Settlements

Development NGOs

• 'The Morning After the Night Before – the impact of the financial crisis on the developing world' Christian Aid report, November 2008 

International Accounting Standards Board

• Timeline of Key Announcements and Measures taken by the IASB in relation to the Financial Crisis (November 2009 – June 2008)

REPORTS BY REGION

Asia

• Global Financial Crisis: Implications for South Asia, 21 October 2008
• 'Global Financial Crisis and Key Risks: Impact on India and Asia'
  Rakesh Mohan Deputy Governor Reserve Bank of India
  Remarks prepared for IMF-FSF High-Level Meeting at Washington D.C.
  9 October 2008
• Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, State of the Region 2008-9: Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Asia Pacific Region and Economic Outlook

REPORTS BY COUNTRY

China

• China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States – CRS report, 3 June 2009
• China's financial conundrum and global imbalances BIS Working Paper March Published March 2009 relating to June 2008 BIS Annual Conference
  Summary
  Working Paper

2009

REPORTS BY INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND FORA

Bank for International Settlements

• Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Consultative Document International Framework for Liquidity Risk Measurement, Standards and Monitoring, issued for comment by 16 April 2010 in December 2009
• Guidance to Assess the Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments - Initial Considerations, 7 November 2009, issued by the Financial Stability Board, the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements
• BIS Working Papers No. 293, 'Ten Propositions about Liquidity Crises', November 2009
• Unconventional Monetary Policies – an Appraisal, November 2009
• Agreement of the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision on key measures to strengthen regulation of the banking sector, 7 September 2009
• An Assessment of Financial Sector Rescue Programmes, July 2009
• Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework - final version, July 2009
• Enhancements to the Basel II framework, July 2009
• Guidelines for computing capital for incremental risk in the trading book - final version, July 2009
• China's Evolving External Wealth and Rising Creditor Position, July 2009 – BIS Working Paper

Committee on Capital Markets Regulation

• Comments on the Proposed Creation of a Consumer Protection Agency, 13 October 2009
• The Global Financial Crisis – a Plan for Regulatory Reform, May 2009

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

• Transition Report 2009—Transition in Crisis?
  Summary
  Report: By subscription

Financial Stability Board (formerly the Financial Stability Forum)

• Note on Exit from Extraordinary Financial Sector Support Measures, 7 November 2009
• Guidance to Assess the Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments - Initial Considerations, 7 November 2009, issued by the Financial Stability Board, the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements
• The Financial Crisis and Information Gaps, 29 October 2009, jointly issued by the Financial Stability Board and the International Monetary Fund
• Improving Financial Regulation – Report of the FSB to G20 leaders, September 2009: Principles for Sound Compensation Practices, September 2009
• Report on Addressing Procyclicality in the Financial System, 2 April 2009
• Principles for Sound Compensation Practices, 2 April 2009
• Principles for Cross-Border Co-operation on Crisis Management, 2 April 2009

Group of 8

• G8 L’Alquila Summit – July 2009
  All summit papers
• Leader’s Statement on Promoting the Global Agenda

Group of 20

• Report to G20 Finance Ministers and Governors on Progress since the Pittsburgh Summit in Implementing the G20 Recommendations for Strengthening Financial Stability, 7 November 2009
• G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, St. Andrews, 7 November 2009 –
  Communiqué 
  Progress report
• G20 Pittsburgh Summit, 24-25 September 2009
  Summit website
  Leaders’ Statement
  Supporting Global Growth - A Preliminary Report on the Responsiveness and Adaptability of the International Financial Institutions by the Chair of the London Summit, Prime Minister Gordon Brown
• G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, London, 4-5 September 2009
  Communiqué
  Declaration on further steps to strengthen the financial system
  Progress report on the actions of the London and Washington G20 summits
• G20 London Summit – April 2009
  Leader’s statement 

Group of 30

• Reform of the International Monetary Fund (report for purchase), 5 October 2009
• Financial reform – A Framework for Financial Stability – 15 January 2009
• Lessons Learned from Previous Banking Crises: Sweden, Japan, Spain and Mexico (report for purchase), 2009

ILO

• Protecting People, Promoting Jobs – A Survey of Country Employment and Social Protection Policy Responses to the Global Economic Crisis, September 2009
• Recovering from the Crisis: A Global Jobs Pact, 19 June 2009
• Recovering from the Crisis – a Global Jobs Pact: Resolution of the General Conference of the ILO, June 2009
• 22nd International Labour Symposium “Economic and Financial Crisis and Employment Problems—How to Tackle Global Jobs Crisis, Report of the Director- General, Tackling the global jobs crisis: Recovery through decent work policies, 8 May 2009
• International Labour Organisation – “Impact of the Financial Crisis on Finance Sector Workers” - issues paper for discussion at the Global Dialogue Forum on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Finance Sector Workers - Geneva, 24-25 February 2009
• World of Work Report 2009: Global Jobs Crisis and Beyond, 2009

Institute of International Finance

• Reform in the Financial Services Industry: Strengthening Practices for a More Stable System, December 2009
• Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies, 3 October 2009
• Restoring Confidence, Creating Resilience: An Industry Perspective on the Future of International Financial Regulation and the Search for Stability, July 2009
• IIF China Outlook Up-date: 31 March 2009
• 'Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies', 27 January 2009

International Accounting Standards Board

• Report of the Financial Crisis Advisory Group, 28 July 2009

International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies

• The Fundamental Principles of Financial Regulation, 2 July 2009 (report for purchase)

International Monetary Fund

• Guidance to Assess the Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments - Initial Considerations, 7 November 2009, issued by the Financial Stability Board, the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements
• Unconventional Choices for Unconventional Times – Credit and Quantitative Easing in Advanced Economies, 4 November 2009
• The Financial Crisis and Information Gaps, 29 October 2009, jointly issued by the Financial Stability Board and the International Monetary Fund
• IMF Working paper - New Zealand Bank Vulnerabilities in International Perspective, 1 October 2009
• IMF Working Paper - Australian Bank and Corporate Sector Vulnerabilities – an International Perspective, 1 October 2009
• Sub-Saharan Africa – Weathering the Storm, October 2009
• World Economic Outlook, October 2009
• New Zealand Bank Vulnerabilities in International Perspective, 1 October 2009
• Australian Bank and Corporate Sector Vulnerabilities – an International Perspective, 1 October 2009
• Global Financial Stability Report, Market update, July 2009
• World economic update, July 2009
• IMF Report for April 2009 G20 summit – “Global Economic Policies and Prospects”
• IMF Report – “The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Low-Income Countries”, March 2009
• IMF World Economic Outlook Update – “Global Economic Slump Challenges Policies” – 28 Jan 2009 
  Summary
  Report
• IMF Global Financial Stability Report GFSR Market Update, 28 Jan 2009
  Summary
  Report
• Global Financial Stability Report 2009

OECD

• OECD Report “The Corporate Governance Lessons from the Financial Crisis” – pre-publication version issued 11 February 2009
• Understanding the World Trade Collapse – Economics Department Working Paper, October 2009
• OECD Economic Survey of the European Union, 21 September 2009.
  Summary
• Moving Forward on the Global Standards of Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes – 5th Meeting of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information, September 2009
• Meeting of OECD Labour and Employment Ministers, Paris, 28-29 September 2009
  Final communiqué
• Economic Survey of the European Union, 21 September 2009
  Summary
• OECD Economic Survey of Brazil 2009, 14 July 2009
  Summary
  OECD Economic Survey of Russia 2009, July 2009
  Summary
• Financial Market Trends, July 2009 
• 2009 Ministerial Conclusions on the occasion of the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, June 2009
• Economic Outlook, June 2009
• Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis: Key Findings and Main Messages, June 2009
• Finance, Competition and Governance: Priorities for Reform and Strategies to Phase-Out Emergency Measures, June 2009
• OECD Economic Outlook – Interim report March 2009
• The Financial Crisis; Reform and Exit Strategies, 2009

United Nations

• Millennium Development Goal Gap Task Force Report 2009 – Strengthening the Global Partnership for Development in a Time of Crisis, July 2009
• Outcome of United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development, June 2009
• UN Economic and Social Council Economic Commission for Africa: the Global Financial Crisis – Impact Responses and Way Forward, June 2009
• Preliminary Recommendations by the Commission of Experts of the President of the General Assembly on reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, (Stiglitz Commission) 19 March 2009
• Commission on the Status of Women, Fifty-third Session, The Gender Perspectives of the Financial Crisis, March 2009
  Paper and panellist information
• 'The Global Economic Crisis: Systemic Failures and Multilateral Remedies' – report by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, March 2009
  Press release and related links to summary of report
• 'Global financial crisis endangering the state of the world’s forests' – UN Report on the state of the world’s forests by Sabina Castelfranco,19 March 2009. Report reviewed
• “The Millenium Development Goals – Bankable Pledge or Sub-prime asset?” – Unesco Future Forum 2 March 2009. Global crisis hits most vulnerable,  Summary 
  Presentation
• Assessing the Impact of the Current Financial and Economic Crisis on Global FDI Flows – report by UNCTAD, January 2009
• The Global Economic and Financial Crisis: Regional Impacts, Responses, and Solutions, 2009

UN Human Rights Council

• Submission to the UN Conference on World Financial and Economic Crisis, UN General Assembly, 24-26 June, 2009, “The right to food and the financial and economic crisis”
• The Impact of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis on the Universal Realization and Effective Enjoyment of Human Rights, 23 February 2009

World Bank

• Pensions in Crisis in Europe and Central Asia, November 2009
• World Bank China Quarterly Up-date, November 2009
• World Bank Report: East Asia and Pacific Up-date – Transforming the Rebound into Recovery, November 2009
• World Bank: Russian Economic Report, November 2009
• World Bank Report: Accelerating Growth and Job Creation in South Asia, October 2009
• “After the Crisis?” - speech by Robert B. Zoellick, President The World Bank Group, 28 September 2009
• Protecting Progress – the Challenge Facing Low Income Countries in the Global Recession, September 2009
• World Bank: Latin America Beyond the Crisis – Impacts Policies and Opportunities, July 2009
• The 2008 Economic and Financial Crisis: A Special Report of the Commission on Growth and Development, published July 2009
  Purchasing information
• World Bank Russian Economic Report, June 2009
• World Bank Global Economic Forecast, 30 March 2009
  Summary
  Report
• Swimming Against the Tide: How Developing Countries are Coping with the Global Crisis, March 2009
• World Bank EU10 Regular Economic Report, February 2009.
  Summary
  Report
  Croatia supplement
• Global Monitoring Report 2009 – a Development Emergency
• Global Development Finance 2009 – Charting a Global Recovery

World Economic Forum

• India Economic Summit – India’s Next Generation of Growth, November 2009
• World Economic Forum Report - Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for East Asia, June 2009
• World Economic Forum Report - Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for Latin America, April 2009
• “The Future of the Global Financial System - A Near-Term Outlook and Long-Term Scenarios”, January 2009
• The Financial Development Report 2009
• Global Risks 2009 Report

World Health Organisation

• “The Financial Crisis and Global Health” - Report of a High-Level Consultation, World Health Organization, Geneva, 19 January 2009

World Trade Organisation

• The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Least-Developed Countries – 7th Ministerial Conference, 30 November – 2 December 2009
• Report of WTO Director General to the Trade Policy Review Body, 26 March 2009

REPORTS BY REGION

Africa

• Communique of the Meeting of the Committee of African Ministers of Finance and Planning and Governors of Central Banks (Committee of Ten), Abuja, 14 July 2009: http://www.treasury.gov.za/comm_media/press/2009/2009071403.pdf
• World Economic Forum Report – Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for Africa, June 2009: http://www.weforum.org/pdf/Africa2009/AF09report.pdf
• Economic Development in Africa 2009 – UNCTAD report:
  http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Webflyer.asp?docID=11575&intItemID=2068&mode=&lang=1
• See also, “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - International Monetary Fund and United Nations”

Asia

• The Unrelenting pressure of Protectionism: the Third GTA Report, A Focus on the Asia Pacific Region, December 2009: http://globaltradealert.org/sites/default/files/GTA_report_3.pdf
• China's Evolving External Wealth and Rising Creditor Position, July 2009 – Working Paper: http://www.bis.org/publ/work286.htm
• “Impact of Global Financial Crisis on South Asia” – February 17, 2009:
  http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/223546-1171488994713/3455847-1232124140958/gfcsouthasiafeb172009.pdf
• Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, State of the Region 2008-9: Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Asia Pacific Region and Economic Outlook: http://www.asiapacific.ca/sites/default/files/filefield/SOTR2008.pdf

Asian Development Bank

• Global Economic Crisis and ADB’s Response: An Update, December 2009 http://www.adb.org/Documents/Policies/Global-Economic-Crisis/in430-09.pdf
• Asian Development Bank Working Paper - The Global Economic Crisis: Impact on India and Policy Responses, November 2009: http://www.adbi.org/files/2009.11.12.wp164.global.economic.crisis.india.pdf
• Asian Development Bank Report - The Financial Crisis and Money Markets in Emerging Asia, November 2009: http://aric.adb.org/pdf/workingpaper/WP38_Financial_Crisis_and_Money_Markets.pdf
• “Global Financial Crisis and Proposed ADB Response”, January 2009
  http://www.adb.org/Documents/Others/in17-09.pdf
• Asian Development Outlook 2009 – Asian Development Bank
  Brief Summary: http://www.adb.org/Economics/
  Report: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ADO/2009/
  
  See also “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - World Bank and World Economic Forum.”

Europe

• The Importance of Wholesale Financial Services to the EU Economy 2009, September 2009 – City of London Report: http://217.154.230.218/NR/rdonlyres/DF649F73-2F5D-4C3E-AA24-E491A280A9B5/0/BC_RS_ImportanceofWholesaleFStoEUEconomy09.pdf
• Legislation issued by the European Parliament and of the Council, adopted on 27 July 2009:
  (a) on Credit rating Agencies: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/09/st03/st03642.en09.pdf
  (b) amending credit institutions capital requirements:
  http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/09/st03/st03670.en09.pdf
  (c) up-dating regulation on cross-border payments:
  http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/09/st03/st03665.en09.pdf 
  (d) relating to electronic money: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/09/st03/st03666.en09.pdf
  (e) establishing a community programme to support specific activities in the field of financial services, financial reporting and auditing:
  http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/09/st03/st03671.en09.pdf
• The Financial Crisis – Impact on and Response by the European Union – Congressional Research Service Report, 24 June 2009:
  http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40415_20090624.pdf
• High-level Principles for Remuneration Policies, Committee of European Banking Supervisors, 20th April 2009:
  http://www.c-ebs.org/getdoc/34beb2e0-bdff-4b8e-979a-5115a482a7ba/High-level-principles-for-remuneration-policies.aspx
• The de Larosiere Report – the High Level Group on Financial Supervision in the EU, 25th February 2009.  http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/finances/docs/de_larosiere_report_en.pdf

Committee of European Banking Supervisors

• Compendium of Supplementary Guidelines on implementation issues of operational risk, September 2009: http://www.c-ebs.org/getdoc/0448297d-3f85-4f7d-9fa6-c6ba5f80895a/CEBS-2009_161_rev1_Compendium.aspx
• High-level Principles for Remuneration Policies, 20 April 2009:
  http://www.c-ebs.org/getdoc/34beb2e0-bdff-4b8e-979a-5115a482a7ba/High-level-principles-for-remuneration-policies.aspx
• Consultation on High-Level Principles for Risk Management, 8 April 2009:
  http://www.c-ebs.org/Publications/Consultation-Papers/All-consultations/CP21-CP30/CP24.aspx

European Commission

• Communication on increasing transparency of the derivatives market, reducing counterparty and operational risk in trading and enhancing market integrity and oversight, 20 October 2009: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/financial-markets/derivatives/index_en.htm#communications
• European Commission 2009 Annual Statement on the Euro Area, 7 October 2009: http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/thematic_articles/article15859_en.htm
• European Commission Report: Economic Crisis in Europe – Causes, Consequences and Responses, 25 September 2009: http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication15887_en.pdf
• Commission Adopts Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Financial Supervision in Europe, 23 September 2009: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1347&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
• Communication on EU Approach to Assessing Restructuring Aid for Banks, 23 July 2009: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/legislation/restructuring_paper_en.pdf
• Communication on ensuring efficient safe and sound derivatives markets, 3 July 2009: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/financial-markets/derivatives/index_en.htm#communications
• European Commission Survey on European Employment and Social Policy, July 2009: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_316_sum_en.pdf
• Communication on European Financial Supervision, May 27, 2009 – proposed new EU financial regulatory system: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/finances/docs/committees/supervision/communication_may2009/C-2009_715_en.pdf
• Proposal for a Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers, April 30, 2009: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/investment/docs/alternative_investments/fund_managers_proposal_en.pdf

European Investment Bank

• Interim Revised Policy Towards Offshore Financial Centres, 14 July 2009: http://www.eib.org/attachments/strategies/eib_interim_revised_policy_towards_ofc_en.pdf
  
  See also “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank.”

Latin America and the Caribbean

• IIF Latin America Regional Overview March 2009: http://www.iif.com/emr/article+248.php  
  
  See also “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Economic Forum.”

REPORTS BY COUNTRY

Australia

• The Australian Money Market in a Global Crisis – RBA Bulletin, June 2009:
  http://www.rba.gov.au/PublicationsAndResearch/Bulletin/bu_jun09/Pdf/bu-0609-2.pdf
• Reserve Bank of Australia - Financial Stability Review Australia – March 2009 - http://www.rba.gov.au/PublicationsAndResearch/FinancialStabilityReview/Mar2009/Pdf/financial_stability_review_0309.pdf

Brazil

See “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - OECD.”

Canada

• Canada’s Economic Action Plan:
  Third Report to Canadians, September 2009 - http://www.fin.gc.ca/pub/report-rapport/2009-3/index-eng.asp
  Second Report to Canadians June 2009 - http://www.fin.gc.ca/pub/report-rapport/2009-2/index-eng.asp
  First Report to Canadians March 2009 - http://www.fin.gc.ca/pub/report-rapport/2009-1/pdf/EcoPlan_e.pdf

China

• China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States – CRS report, 3 June 2009: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS22984.pdf
• Lowy Institute Report: Dealing with the Inharmonious World – China and the Global Financial Crisis, February 2009: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=976
• China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States – CRS report, 9 February, 2009:
  Summary: http://opencrs.com/document/RS22984.
  Report: http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22984_20090209.pdf

India

• Banking and Finance in India: Developments Issues and Prospects – speech by Dr. K.C.Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, August 31, 2009: http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_SpeechesView.aspx?Id=435
• “Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on India Collateral Damage and Response” Speech delivered at the Symposium on "The Global Economic Crisis and Challenges for the Asian Economy in a Changing World" organized by the Institute for International Monetary Affairs, Tokyo on February 18, 2009 By Duvvuri Subbarao, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India - http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_SpeechesView.aspx?Id=410
  
  See also “Section A – Reports by International Institutions and Fora – World Economic Forum.”

Japan

• Recent Economic and Financial Developments and the Conduct of Monetary Policy – speech by Mr. Masaaki Shirakawa, Governor of the Bank of Japan. November 4, 2009: http://www.boj.or.jp/en/type/press/koen07/data/ko0911c.pdf
• Toward Stronger Corporate Governance of Publicly Listed Companies -
  the Financial System Council‘s Study Group on the Internationalization of Japanese Financial and Capital Markets – 18 June 2009
  Summary: http://www.fsa.go.jp/en/news/2009/20090618-1/02.pdf
  Report: http://www.fsa.go.jp/en/news/2009/20090618-1/01.pdf
• Financial Markets Report, Bank of Japan – 31 March 2009.
  Summary: http://www.boj.or.jp/en/type/ronbun/mkr/mkr0903.htm.
  Report: http://www.boj.or.jp/en/type/ronbun/mkr/data/mkr0903.pdf
• Address by Mr Masaaki Shirakawa, Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the Fourth Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan Round Table, Tokyo, 25 February 2009:
  http://www.bis.org/review/r090303a.pdf

Korea

• Global Financial System and Systemic Risks in the Korean Banking System - Korea Economic Institute Paper, May 2009: http://www.keia.org/Publications/AcademicPaperSeries/2009/APS-Kang.pdf

Latvia

• Latvia’s Recessions: The Cost of Adjustment with an ‘Internal Devaluation’ by Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray, Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2010: http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/latvia-recession-2010-02.pdf.

Russia

See “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and World Bank.”

South Africa

• South Africa Amidst the Crisis – Address by Mr AD Mminele, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, 3 November 2009: http://www.reservebank.co.za/internet/Publication.nsf/LADV/2FB82025BBFE6CC242257663004D2011/$File/South+Africa+Amidst+the+Crisis.pdf

United Kingdom

• Report by the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators on Boardroom Behaviours, June 2009:   http://www.icsa.org.uk/assets/files/pdfs/consultations/09.04%20ICSA%20Policy%20Report%206.pdf

Bank of England

• A risk-based methodology for payment systems oversight – Bank of England Financial Stability Paper, August 2009: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/fsr/fs_paper06.pdf   
• The UK Special Resolution regime for failing banks in an international context – Bank of England Financial Stability Paper, July 2009:
  http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/fsr/fs_paper05.pdf
• Periodic Financial Stability Papers 2006 - 2009: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/fsr/papers.htm
• Bank of England – Asset Purchase Facility: a Consultation on Proposals for Working Capital Facilities, June 2009: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/markets/apf/consultation090608.pdf

The City of London Corporation

• The Importance of Wholesale Financial Services to the EU Economy 2009, September 2009: http://217.154.230.218/NR/rdonlyres/DF649F73-2F5D-4C3E-AA24-E491A280A9B5/0/BC_RS_ImportanceofWholesaleFStoEUEconomy09.pdf
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Enforcement and Regulation, April 2009:  http://217.154.230.218/NR/rdonlyres/7A1E6585-3A23-4F09-BB4E-8E9FB471E117/0/BC_RS_Assessing_Effectiveness_Enforcement_Regulation.pdf

Financial Services Authority

• Joint HM Treasury and FSA Report, Reforming OTC Derivatives Markets, a UK Perspective, December 2009: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/hmt_fsa_otcderivativemarkets.pdf
• Speech by Lord Turner, Chairman of the FSA - Large Systemically Important Banks; Addressing the Too-Big-to-Fail Problem, 2 November 2009: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Communication/Speeches/2009/1102_at.shtml
• Speech by Lord Turner, Chairman of the FSA – Examining the Causes of the Financial Crisis, 29 October, 2009: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Communication/Speeches/2009/1029_at.shtml
• Speech by Lord Turner, Chairman of the FSA - Factors Determining the Success of Plans to Change the Structure of Regulation in Europe, 6 October 2009: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Communication/Speeches/2009/1006_at.shtml
• FSA Rules on Strengthening Liquidity Standards, 5 October 2009: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Policy/Policy/2009/09_16.shtml
• Reforming Remuneration Packages in Financial Services – Policy Statement and Final FSA Rules, August 2009: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Policy/Policy/2009/09_15.shtml
• Consultation paper issued by the Financial Services Authority - A Specialist Sourcebook for Building Societies: Enhanced Supervisory Guidance on Financial and Credit Risk Management, June 2009: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/cp/cp09_17.pdf
• The Turner Review – “A Regulatory Response to the Global Banking Crisis”, March 2009.  
  http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/turner_review.pdf

HM Treasury

• Joint HM Treasury and FSA Report, Reforming OTC Derivatives Markets, a UK Perspective, December 2009: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/hmt_fsa_otcderivativemarkets.pdf
• Government welcomes Walker Review corporate governance reforms, 26 November 2009: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/govt_walker_reforms.htm
• Walker Review Final Recommendations, 26 Nov 2009: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/walker_review_261109.pdf
• New Financial Services Bill Introduced to Parliament, 19 November 2009: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/fin_bill_index.htm
• Michael Foot Report on British Offshore Financial Centres, 29 October 2009: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/indreview_brit_offshore_fin_centres.htm
• UK international Financial Services – the Future: A Report from UK based Financial Services Leaders to the Government, May 2009, http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/uk_internationalfinancialservices070509.pdf
• A Review of Corporate Governance in UK Banks and other financial industry entities (“the Walker Review”), 16 July 2009:
  http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/walker_review_consultation_160709.pdf
• Reforming Financial Markets, HM Treasury, July 2009:
  http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/reforming_financial_markets080709.pdf
• Reforming Financial Markets, Impact Assessment, HM Treasury, July 2009:
  http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/impactassessment080709.pdf

United States

• Written Testimony of Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to the House Financial Services Committee on Systemic Regulation, Prudential Matters, Resolution Authority and Securitization, 29 October 2009: http://www.financialstability.gov/latest/tg_10262009.html
• Proposed Guidance on Incentive Compensation - Federal Reserve, 22 October 2009: http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20091022a.htm
• Comments by the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation on the Proposed Creation of a Consumer Protection Agency, 13 October 2009: http://www.capmktsreg.org/press/Frank_CFPA_Letter_(10-13-09).pdf
• Administration’s Proposed Legislation Regulating OTC Derivatives Markets, 11 August 2009: http://financialstability.gov/latest/tg261.html
• Testimony of the Chairman of the Committee of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, on Regulatory Restructuring to the Committee on Financial Services, House of Representatives, July 24, 2009:
  http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/bernanke20090724a.htm
• Hearings of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs – Establishing a Framework for Systemic Risk Regulation, July 23, 2009:
  http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=dabb299b-02c3-4e4b-a116-0767b04768ff
• Remarks by the President on 21st Century Financial Regulatory Reform, June 17, 2009: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-the-President-on-Regulatory-Reform/
• Government Accountability Office report “Troubled Asset Relief Programme” - March 2009 Status of Efforts to Address Transparency and Accountability Issues.
  Summary: http://www.financialcrisisupdate.com/2009/04/gao-issues-third-tarp-report.html
  Report: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09504.pdf.  This follows an earlier report to be found at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09296.pdf

Congressional Research Service

• Systemic Risk and the Federal Reserve - Congressional Research Service, October 28, 2009: http://opencrs.com/document/R40877/
• Insurance Regulation: Issues, Background and Legislation in the 111th Congress – Congressional Research Service, August 19, 2009:
  http://opencrs.com/document/R40771/
• Financial Regulatory Reform: Analysis of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) as Proposed by the Obama Administration and H.R. 3126 – CRS report, July 17, 2009:
  http://opencrs.com/document/R40696/
• The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications – Congressional Research Service, July 10, 2009: http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34742.pdf
• China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States – CRS report, June 3, 2009: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS22984.pdf
• China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States – CRS report, February 9, 2009
  Summary: http://opencrs.com/document/RS22984.
  Report: http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22984_20090209.pdf
• “Causes of the Financial Crisis” – January 29, 2009 – Congressional Research Service
  Summary: http://opencrs.com/document/R40173.
  Report: http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40173_20090129.pdf

Reports by law firms

• A Guide to the Laws, Regulations and Contracts of the Financial Crisis by Davis Polk and Wardwell, September 2009: http://www.davispolk.com/files/Publication/d1ab7627-e45d-4d35-b6f1-ef356ba686f2/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/2a31cab4-3682-420e-926f-054c72e3149d/fcm.pdf

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

• US SEC Commissioner Kathleen L Casey, at Financial Executives International's 28th Annual Current Financial Reporting Issues Conference in New York on November 17, 2009 “Lessons from the Financial Crisis for Financial Reporting, Standard Setting and Rule Making,” http://www.iasplus.com/usa/sec/0911casey.pdf
• President Obama establishes Interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, November 17, 2009: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2009/2009-249.htm
• Joint Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on the Harmonization of Regulation, October 16, 2009: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2009/cftcjointreport101609.pdf

U.S. Treasury

• The Next Phase of Government Financial Stabilization and Rehabilitation Policies, September 2009: http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/docs/Next%20Phase%20of%20Financial%20Policy,%20Final,%202009-09-14.pdf
• US Treasury White Paper: Financial Regulatory Reform – a New Foundation – Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation, June 17, 2009: http://www.financialstability.gov/docs/regs/FinalReport_web.pdf  See also http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/regulatoryreform.html for legislation and factsheets
• Remarks of President Obama on 21st Century Financial Regulatory Reform, June 17, 2009: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-the-President-on-Regulatory-Reform/  - see also US Treasury White Paper: Financial Regulatory Reform – a New Foundation – Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation, June 17th 2009: http://www.financialstability.gov/docs/regs/FinalReport_web.pdf
• Financial Regulatory Reform, A New Foundation: Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation, June 17, 2009: http://www.financialstability.gov/docs/regs/FinalReport_web.pdf

2010

SECTION A - REPORTS BY INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND FORA

Bank for International Settlements

• Quarterly Review, December 2010: http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1012.htm
• The International Financial Crisis and Policy Challenges in Asia and the Pacific, July 2010: http://www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap52.htm
• Quarterly Review, March 2010: http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1003.htm
• Perspectives on inflation targeting, financial stability, and the global crisis, March 2010: http://www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap51.pdf
• Review of the Differentiated Nature and Scope of Financial Regulation, January 2010: http://www.bis.org/publ/joint24.pdf?noframes=1
• Compensation Principles and Standards Assessment Methodology, January 2010: http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs166.pdf
• Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision reinforces Basel Committee reform package, 11 January 2010: http://www.bis.org/press/p100111.htm

Committee on Capital Markets Regulation

• Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Agency will have biggest impact, October 12 2010: http://www.complinet.com/dodd-frank/news/analysis/article/dodd-frank-consumer-protection-agency-will-have-biggest-impact.html
• Financial Regulatory Reform, A new Foundation: Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulations: http://www.financialstability.gov/docs/regs/FinalReport_web.pdf

Development NGOs

• The Global Financial Crisis, A Plan for Regulatory Reform, Dec 22, 2010 http://www.kyc360.com/article/show/49?set=1

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

• Transition Report, November 2010—Recovery and Reform http://www.ebrd.com/downloads/research/transition/tr10.pdf

Financial Stability Board (formerly the Financial Stability Forum)

• Promoting global adherence to international cooperation and information exchange standards, March 10, 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_100310.pdf
• Oliver Wyman Report, Banking compensation reform, Summary Report of progress and challenges commissioned by the Financial Stability Board, March 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_100330b.pdf
• Thematic Review on Compensation, Peer Review Report, March 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_100330a.pdf
• FSB Framework for Strengthening Adherence to International Standards, 9 January 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_100109a.pdf
• The dependence of the financial system on central bank and government support, 2010: http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1003g.pdf
• Documents from the G20 Finance Meeting in Washington: http://www.economicsummits.info/2010/04/documents-g20-finance-washington
• Guidance to Assess the Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments: Initial Considerations, September 11, 2010: http://www.gloriamundi.org/library_journal_view.asp?journal_id=9515
• The Financial Crisis and Information Gaps, May 2010, jointly issued by the Financial Stability Board and the International Monetary Fund: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_100510.pdf
• FSB Overview report on progress for G20 Leaders, June 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_100627c.pdf
• FSB Report on Improving OTC derivatives markets, 25 October 2010:
  http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_101025.pdf
• FSB Letter to G20 Leaders on Progress of Financial Regulatory Reforms, 9 November, 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_101109.pdf
• FSB Report on Progress since the Washington Summit in the Implementation of the G20 Recommendations for Strengthening Financial Stability:12 November, 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_101111b.pdf
• Report on Supervisory Intensity and Effectiveness; 2 November, 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_101101.pdf
• Report on Principles for Reducing Reliance on CRA Ratings, 27 October 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_101027.pdf
• FSB-BCBS Interim Report: Assessing the Macroeconomic impact of the transition to stronger capital and liquidity requirements, 18 August, 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_100818a.pdf
• Interim report, reducing the moral hazard posed by systemically important financial institutions, June 18 2010: http://www.financialstabilityboard.org/publications/r_100627b.pdf

Group of 8

• G8 Muskoka Summit – June  2010. http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/g82010/index.aspx?lang=eng
  Official Documents: http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/summit/2010muskoka/index.html
• Canada’s G8 priorities, 26 January 2010: http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=3093
• 2011 G8-G20 Chairman, French President Sarkozy: - “We’ll overcome the Global Crisis’”, 12 July 2010: http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkozyglobalgovernance.html

Group of 20

• G20 & the November 2010 Seoul summit, 19 October 2010: http://www.parliament.uk/briefingpapers/commons/lib/research/briefings/snep-05028.pdf
• G20 Leaders urge “International Standards Joint Letter from the leaders of Canada, France, Korea, United Kingdom, and United States to other G20 countries highlighting the need for continued cooperation in developing international standards,” March 2010: http://www.iasplus.com/crunch/1003g20letter.pdf
• Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority, to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, in response to the question “Banks are different: Should accounting reflect that?”, January 2010: http://www.iasplus.com/uk/1001turnerspeech.pdf
• Leaders’ Statement: http://www.pittsburghsummit.gov/mediacenter/129639.htm
• Supporting Global Growth - A Preliminary Report on the Responsiveness and Adaptability of the International Financial Institutions by the Chair of the London Summit, Prime Minister Gordon Brown:
  http://www.pittsburghsummit.gov/documents/organization/129851.pdf
• 2011 G8-G20 Chairman, French President Sarkozy: - “We’ll overcome the Global Crisis’”, 12 July 2010: http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkozyglobalgovernance.html

Group of 30

• Enhancing Financial Stability and Resilience (report for purchase), 2010: http://www.group30.org/pubs/pub_MP.htm
• Twelve Market and Government Failures Leading to the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis (Report for Purchase), 2010: http://www.group30.org/pubs/pub_OP80.htm

ILO

• The impact of the global economic crisis on public administration, November 11, 2010: http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/insight/WCMS_146454/lang--en/index.htm
• Trade and Employment in the global crisis: Lessons for the future, October 25, 2010:  http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/insight/WCMS_145909/lang--en/index.htm
• “After the ILO-IMF conference in Oslo, what’s next?”, September 20, 2010: http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/insight/WCMS_144907/lang--en/index.htm
• Cooperatives and the crisis: “Our customers are also our owners”, July 2, 2010: http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/insight/WCMS_142558/lang--en/index.htm

Institute of International Finance

• October 2010 Global Regulatory Update, October 30 2010: http://www.iif.com/regulatory/article+868.php
• December 2010 Global Economic Monitor, December 13, 2010 (membership required): http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+517.php
• December 2010 Capital Markets Monitor, December 9, 2010: http://www.iif.com/gcm/article+801.php
• Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies, 4 October 2010: http://www.iif.com/press/press+161.php

International Accounting Standards Board

• IASB and FASB update to G20 Leaders on modified convergence strategy, 24 June 2010: http://www.ifrs.org/News/Announcements+and+Speeches/update+to+G20+on+modified+convergence+strategy.htm
• Financial Crisis Advisory Group letter to the G20 on IASB and FASB progress, January 4, 2010: http://www.iasb.org/News/Announcements+and+Speeches/FCAG+Issues+Letter+to+G-20.htm

International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies

• Geneva Reports on the World Economy, A safer world financial system: Improving the resolution of systemic institutions, July 8 2010 (report for purchase): http://www.icmb.ch/index.php?rub=4&lang=en

International Monetary Fund

• World Economic Outlook, Recovery, Risk and Rebalancing, October 2010: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2010/02/index.htm
  See generally - key elements of the IMF's work on the financial crisis, and links to articles, documents and background information: http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/key/finstab.htm
• Preserving Debt Stability in Low-Income Countries in the Wake of the Global Crisis, April 1, 2010: http://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2010/040110.pdf.
• World Economic Outlook, Chapters 3 and 4, April 2010
  Chapter 3: Unemployment Dynamics During Recessions and Recoveries: Okun’s Law and Beyond: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2010/01/pdf/c3.pdf.
  Chapter 4: Getting the Balance Right: Transitioning out of Sustained Current Account Surplus: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2010/01/pdf/c4.pdf.

See www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft for IMF working papers on the financial crisis, including:

• Learning about Inflation Measures for Interest Rate Rules—Working Paper no. 10/296, December 1, 2010.
• European Financial Linkages: A new Look at Imbalances, Working paper No. 10/295.
• Weathering the Global Storm: The Benefits of Monetary Policy Reform in LA5 countries, working paper No. 10/292, December 1, 2010.
• Bank Capital: Lessons from the Financial Crisis, Working Paper no. 10/286, December 1, 2010.
• What caused the global financial crisis- Evidence on the Drivers of Financial Imbalances 1999-2007, December 1, 2010.
• Growth and Crisis, Unavoidable Connection?, Working paper no. 10/267, November 1, 2010.
• Slowdown of Credit Flows in Jordan in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis, Working Paper No. 10/256, November 1, 2010. 
• Post-Crisis Fiscal Policy Priorities for the ASEAN-5, November 1, 2010.
• The Impact of the Great Recession on Emerging Markets, Working paper No. 10/237, October 1, 2010.
• Financial Contagion through Bank Deleveraging: Stylized Facts and Simulations Applied to the Financial Crisis, Working Paper No. 10/236, October 1, 2010.
• Restoring Debt Sustainability After Crises: Implications for the Fiscal Mix, Working Paper No. 10/232.
• Adjustment under a Currency Peg: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the Global Financial Crisis, Working Paper No. 10/213, September 1, 2010.
• The end of an Era? The Medium-and long-term effects of the Global Crisis on Growth in Low-Income Countries, Working Paper No. 10/205, September 1, 2010.
• The Effects of the Global Crisis on Islamic and Conventional Banks: A Comparative Study, Working Paper No. 10/201, September 1, 2010.
• The Cross-Country Incidence of the Global Crisis, Working Paper No. 10/171, July 1, 2010.
• Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis, Working Paper No. 10/164, July 1, 2010.
• Can you Map Global Financial Stability?, Working Paper No. 10/145, June 1, 2010.
• Beyond the Crisis: Revisiting Emerging Europe’s Growth Model—European Department Working Paper, April 2010
• Credit Conditions and Recoveries from Recessions Associated with Financial Crises—Research Department Working Paper, March 2010
• Bank Credit During the 2008 Financial Crisis: A Cross-Country Comparison—Asian and Pacific Department Working Paper, February 2010
• Lessons and Policy Implications from the Financial Crisis—Research Department Working Paper, February 2010
• The Global Financial Crisis and Workers’ Remittances to Africa: What’s the Damage?—Middle East and Central Asia Department Working Paper, January 2010
• Are Financial Crises Alike?—Monetary and Capital Markets Department Working Paper, January 2010
• Canada’s Potential Growth: Another Victim of the Crisis?—Western Hemisphere Department Working Paper, January 2010
• After the Crisis: Lower Consumption Growth but Narrower Global Imbalances?—European Department Working Paper, January 2010
• The Spillover Effects of the Global Crisis on Economic Activity in MENA Emerging Market Countries—An Analysis Using the Financial Stress Index—Middle East and Central Asia Department Working Paper, January 2010 
• The Impact of the Global Crisis on Canada: What do Macro-Financial Linkages Tell Us?—Western Hemisphere Department Working Paper, January 2010
• Post Crisis Bank Behaviour: Lessons from Mercosur—Western Hemisphere Department Working Paper, January 2010

• Capital Inflows: The Role of Controls, February 2010, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/spn/2010/spn1004.pdf
• U.S. Consumption after the 2008 Crisis, January 2010, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/spn/2010/spn1001.pdf
• IMF Working Paper, Adjustment under a currency peg: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the Global Financial Crisis 2008-09, September 1, 2010: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2010/wp10213.pdf

OECD

• The 2008-2009 crisis in Turkey: performance, policy responses and challenges for sustaining the recovery, 9 December, 2010: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/the-2008-09-crisis-in-turkey_5km36j7d320s-en
• Economy: Growth picking up steam but recovery uneven, says OECD Economic Outlook, 18 November, 2010: http://www.oecd.org/document/56/0,3343,en_2649_34109_46434360_1_1_1_37443,00.html
• OECD Economic Outlook, 2010: http://www.oecd.org/document/18/0,3343,en_2649_34109_20347538_1_1_1_1,00.html
• What is the economic outlook for OECD countries? An interim assessment, 9 September 2010: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/24/45968339.pdf
• Economy: Recovery slowing amid increased uncertainty, says Interim Economic Outlook, 9 September, 2010: http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,3343,en_2649_34109_45967548_1_1_1_37443,00.html
• Economic Outlook - interim projections on 5 April 2011, full economic outlook press conference on 24 May 2011: http://www.oecd.org/document/18/0,3343,en_2649_34109_20347538_1_1_1_37443,00.html
• The Financial Industry and Challenges Related to Post-Crises Exit Strategies, February 2010: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/17/56/44563803.pdf
• Monetary policy responses to the crisis and exit strategies—Economics Department Working Paper, February 2010: http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2010doc.nsf/LinkTo/NT00000C9E/$FILE/JT03278895.PDF
• Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis: Conclusions and emerging good practices to enhance implementation of the Principles, February 2010: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/53/62/44679170.pdf
• The Automobile Industry In and Beyond the Crisis—Economics Department Working Paper, January 2010: http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2010doc.nsf/LinkTo/NT000009FE/$FILE/JT03277464.PDF
• A bird’s eye view of OECD housing markets—Economics Department Working Paper, January 2010: http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2010doc.nsf/LinkTo/NT00000AFA/$FILE/JT03277653.PDF

United Nations

• Millennium Development Goal Gap Task Force Report 2010: The Global Partnership for Developing for Development at a Critical Juncture, September 2010: http://www.un.org/esa/policy/mdggap/mdggap2010/mdg8report2010_engw.pdf

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

• Pre-release of World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011, December 1, 2010: http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wesp2011files/wesp2011_prerelease1.pdf

UN Human Rights Council

• Report of the Human Rights Council on its twelfth session, Follow up to the tenth special session of the Human Rights Council on the impact of the global economic and financial crises of the universal realization and effective enjoyment of human right, 21 May 2010:  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A.HRC.12.50.Corr.1_en.pdf
• Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the impact of the global economic and financial crises to the realization of all human rights and on possible actions required to alleviate it, 18 February, 2010: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,4565c22541,465576502,4bbee6602,0.html

World Bank

• A flaw in the model…that defines how the world works, December 1, 2010:
  http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101208092950
• Bank Capital: lessons from the financial crisis, November 1, 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101110113157
• The great crisis and fiscal institutions in eastern and central Europe and central Asia, October 1, 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101020142440
• Egypt beyond the crisis: medium-term challenges for sustained growth, October 1, 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101020092638
• The Offshore Services Value Chain: Developing Countries and the Crisis—Policy Research working paper, April 2010: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2010/04/07/000158349_20100407091357/Rendered/PDF/WPS5262.pdf
• The impact of the global financial crisis on new firm registration, October 1, 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101012085129
• The impact of the global financial crisis on off-farm employment in rural China, October 10, 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101008100632

World Economic Forum

• “Improve the State of the World:  Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild”, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland 27-31 January: http://www.weforum.org/en/events/ArchivedEvents/AnnualMeeting2010/Wednesday27/index.htm

World Health Organisation

• World Health Organisation, Country-Kuwait, 7 November 2010: http://www.omwho.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Kuwait.pdf

World Trade Organisation

• Harvard Model Congress of Europe, World Trade Organization- Financial Crisis, Induction and Summary of the Problem 2010: http://www.hmceurope.org/2010/docs/updates/WTO_financial_crisis_update.pdf
• Report on G20 Trade and Investment Measures, March 8, 2010: http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news10_e/trim_report_08mar10_e.doc

SECTION B – REPORTS BY REGION

AFRICA

• Libya: Reforms needed to Sustain Rapid Growth, December 10, 2010 (membership required): http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+919.php
• Nigeria: Reforms needed to Sustain Rapid Growth, December 10, 2010 (membership required): http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+903.php
• South Africa: Monetary Easing has run its course, December 09, 2010: http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+903.php
• Egypt beyond the crisis: medium-term challenges for sustained growth, October 1, 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101020092638
• The Global Economic Crisis: Impact on Sub-Saharan Africa and Global Policy responses, CRS Report for Congress, April 6, 2010: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40778.pdf

See also, “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - International Monetary Fund and United Nations”

ASIA

• The great crisis and fiscal institutions in eastern and central Europe and central Asia, October 1, 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101020142440
• The impact of the global financial crisis on off-farm employment in rural China, October 10, 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101008100632
• Asian Financial Forum 2010, Asia in the New Economic Order, 20-21 January 2010: http://www.asianfinancialforum.com/eng/index.htm
• Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, State of the Region 2010-11 (Asia Pacific Region): http://www.pecc.org/research/state-of-the-region

Asian Development Bank

• Social Impact of the Global Financial Crisis in the Philippines (free online copy), December, 2010: http://www.adb.org/documents/reports/social-impact-crisis-ph/default.asp
• Global Economic Crisis, Implications for Asia-Pacific and ADB, Updates on ADB’s Response to the Global Economic Crisis, 8 December 2010: http://www.adb.org/economic-crisis/
• ADB Forum on Financial Crisis to Discuss Stimulus, Role of Central Banks, 2 November 2010: http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2010/13379-asian-financial-crisis/?p=orgmgt

See also “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - World Bank and World Economic Forum.”

EUROPE

• The great crisis and fiscal institutions in eastern and central Europe and central Asia, October 1, 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101020142440
• Turkey: Central Bank Acts to Slow Capital Inflows, December 17, 2010(membership required): http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+552.php
• The Financial Crisis – Impact on and Response by the European Union – Congressional Research Service Report, 17 March 2010: http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/19383.pdf
• Draft Guidelines on renumeration policies and practices, Committee of European Banking Supervisors, 8 October, 2010: http://www.c-ebs.org/Publications/Consultation-Papers/All-consultations/CP41-CP50/CP42.aspx

Committee of European Banking Supervisors

• Committee of European Banking Supervisors, Revised Guidelines on Supervisory Disclosure, 28 January 2010: http://www.c-ebs.org/Publications/Standards-Guidelines/CEBS-Revised-Guidelines-on-Supervisory-Disclosure.aspx
• Guidelines on Enumeration Policies and Practices, 10 December 2010: http://www.c-ebs.org/cebs/media/Publications/Standards%20and%20Guidelines/2010/Remuneration/Guidelines.pdf
• CEBS Guidelines on the management of operational risks in market-related activities, 12 October 2010: http://www.c-ebs.org/documents/Publications/Standards---Guidelines/2010/Management-of-op-risk/CEBS-2010-216-(Guidelines-on-the-management-of-op-.aspx

European Commission

• High-Level Seminar on the political economy of crisis-induced reforms, 3 December, 2010: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/economy_finance/buti/buti_3_12_2010_imf_en.pdf
• The spread of the crisis, Effect of the crisis on public finances, European Parliament 14th January, 2010: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/economy_finance/buti/20100114_buti_ep_spread_of_crisis.pdf
• European Commission  Quarterly Reports on the Euro Area 2010:
  Q4 Quarterly report on the Euro Area, December 2010: http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/qr_euro_area/2010/pdf/qrea201004_en.pdf
  Q3 Quarterly report on the Euro Area, October 2010: http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/qr_euro_area/2010/pdf/qrea201003_en.pdf
  Q2 Quarterly report on the Euro Area, June 2010: http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/qr_euro_area/2010/pdf/qrea201002_en.pdf
  Q1 Quarterly report on the Euro Area, March 2010: http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/qr_euro_area/2010/pdf/qrea201001en.pdf
• Press pack: Financial Crisis-Europe’s response, December 2010:http://europa.eu/press_room/press_packs/crisis/index_en.htm
• Press Release, EP supports permanent crisis mechanism to shore up the euro, December 16, 2010: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/en/pressroom/content/20101215IPR10348/html/EP-supports-permanent-crisis-mechanism-to-shore-up-the-euro

European Investment Bank

• FEMIP: The Crisis and exit strategies in the Mediterranean partner countries, 29 November 2010: http://www.eib.org/attachments/country/femip_study_femise_executive_summary_en.pdf
• Economic and Financial Reports Volume 04/2010, Public-Private Partnerships in Europe-before and during the recent financial crisis, 27 July 2010: http://www.eib.org/infocentre/publications/efr-2010-v04.htm

See also “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank.”

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

• Mexico: Growth Moderating Peso Strengthening in 2011. December 17, 2010(Membership required): http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+555.php

See also “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Economic Forum.”

MIDDLE EAST

• Will Stabilisation limit Protectionism? The 4th GTA Report, A Focus on the Gulf Region, 15 February 2010: http://globaltradealert.org/gta-analysis/will-stabilisation-limit-protectionism-4th-gta-report

SECTION C – REPORTS BY COUNTRY

AUSTRALIA

• Reserve Bank of Australia, The Impact of The Financial Crisis on IMG Finances, RBA Bulletin, September Quarter 2010: http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2010/sep/9.html
• Reserve Bank of Australia, The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Bond Market, RBA Bulletin, June Quarter 2010: http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2010/jun/8.html
• Economic Market Report, Australia PRP, September 2010: http://prpaustralia.com.au/contentUploaded/ResearchReports/Economic%20Report%20Sep%20Qtr%202010.pdf

See also “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - International Monetary Fund.”

BRAZIL

See “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - OECD.”

CANADA

• Canada’s Economic Action Plan: 6th Report to Canadians, September 27, 2010:  http://actionplan.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?pageId=189
• Canada’s Potential Growth: Another Victim of the Crisis? –Western Hemisphere Department Working Paper, January 2010, http://www.ifm.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2010/wp1008.pdf
• The Impact of the Global Crisis on Canada: What do Macro-Financial Linkages Tell Us?—Western Hemisphere Department Working Paper, January 2010: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2010/wp1001.pdf  

See also “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - International Monetary Fund.”

CHINA

• The impact of the global financial crisis on off-farm employment in rural China, October 10, 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101008100632
• China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States – CRS report, June 3, 2009: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS22984.pdf

See also “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - Bank for International Settlements, Institute of International Finance, and World Bank.”

EGYPT

• Egypt beyond the crisis: medium-term challenges for sustained growth, October 1 2010: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469382&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20101020092638

ESTONIA

• IMF Working Paper, Adjustment under a currency peg: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the Global Financial Crisis 2008-09, September 1, 2010: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2010/wp10213.pdf

INDIA

• Paper, Determinants of Overnight Index Swap (OIS) Rates: Some Empirical Findings from an Emerging Market Economy, India, Reserve Bank of India Occasional Papers, Volumbe 21. No 1, Summer 2010: http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Content/PDFs/3DORIAS160810.pdf

See also “Section A – Reports by International Institutions and Fora – World Economic Forum.”

JAPAN

• Financial Markets Report, Bank of Japan – Aug. 31 2010: http://www.boj.or.jp/en/type/ronbun/mkr/data/mkr1008.pdf
• Financial Markets Report, Bank of Japan – Feb. 26, 2010: http://www.boj.or.jp/en/type/ronbun/mkr/data/mkr1008.pdf
• Address by Mr Masaaki Shirakawa, Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the Second IJCB Fall Conference entiled “Monetary Policy Lessons from the Global Crisis”, September 16, 2010: http://www.boj.or.jp/en/type/press/koen07/data/ko1009c.pdf

LATVIA

• Latvia’s Recessions: The Cost of Adjustment with an ‘Internal Devaluation’ by Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray, Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2010: http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/latvia-recession-2010-02.pdf.
• IMF Working Paper, Adjustment under a currency peg: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the Global Financial Crisis 2008-09, September 1, 2010: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2010/wp10213.pdf

LITHUANIA

• IMF Working Paper, Adjustment under a currency peg: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the Global Financial Crisis 2008-09, September 1, 2010: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2010/wp10213.pdf

LIBYA

• Libya: Reforms needed to Sustain Rapid Growth, December 10, 2010 (membership required):
  http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+919.php

MEXICO

• Mexico: Growth Moderating Peso Strengthening in 2011. December 17, 2010 (Membership required): http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+555.php

NIGERIA

• Nigeria: Reforms needed to Sustain Rapid Growth, December 10, 2010 (membership required): http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+903.php

NEW ZEALAND

See  “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - International Monetary Fund.”

PHILIPPINES

• Social Impact of the Global Financial Crisis in the Philippines (free online copy), December, 2010: http://www.adb.org/documents/reports/social-impact-crisis-ph/default.asp

RUSSIA

See “Section A - Reports by International Institutions and Fora - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and World Bank.”

SOUTH AFRICA

• South Africa: Monetary Easing has run its course, December 09, 2010: http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+903.php

TURKEY

• Turkey: Central Bank Acts to Slow Capital Inflows, December 17, 2010 (membership required): http://www.iif.com/emr/resources+552.php
• The 2008-2009 crisis in Turkey: performance, policy responses and challenges for sustaining the recovery, 9 December, 2010: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/the-2008-09-crisis-in-turkey_5km36j7d320s-en

UNITED KINGDOM

Bank of England

• News Release, The Financial Crisis Reform Agenda- Speech by Andrew Bailey, Bank of England, July 13, 2010: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/news/2010/059.htm
• News Release, Monetary Policy- From Stability to Financial Crisis and Back? – Speech by Kate Barker, Bank of England, 8 March 2010: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/news/2010/025.htm
• Understanding the International Bank Capital Flows during the Recent Financial Crisis – Bank of England Financial Stability Paper, 23 September 2010: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/fsr/fs_paper08.pdf

The City of London Corporation

• The total Tax Contribution of UK Financial Services-Third Edition, December 2010: http://217.154.230.218/NR/rdonlyres/68F49A7E-8255-415B-99A8-1A8273D568D9/0/TotalTax3_FinalForWeb.pdf

Financial Services Authority

• Statement of the FSA to Anton Valukas, the court appointed examiner of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., March 2010, http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/lehman.pdf

UNITED STATES

• Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs-Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., April 2010: http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2010/201020/201020pap.pdf
• Credit and Liquidity Programs and the Balance Sheet- Board of Governers of the Federal Reserve System, May 11, 2010: http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst.htm
• Restoring American Financial Stability Act, 2010: http://banking.senate.gov/public/_files/TheRestoringAmericanFinancialStabilityActof2010AYO10732_xml0.pdf
• Restoring American Financial Stability Act, 2010 Summary: http://banking.senate.gov/public/_files/FinancialReformDiscussionDraftRevised111009.pdf
• U.S. Consumption after the 2008 Crisis, January 2010: http://www.imf.org/external /pubs/ft/spn/2010/spn1001.pdf

 Congressional Research Service

• The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications - Congressional Research Service, February 04, 2010: http://opencrs.com/document/RL34742/
• Causes of the Financial Crisis, Congressional Research Reports for the people, April 09, 2010: http://opencrs.com/document/R40173/

Reports by law firms

• “Summary of the March 15, 2010 Draft of the Restoring American Financial Stability Act, Introduced by Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT)” by Davis Polk, March 17, 2010: http://www.davispolk.com/files/Publication/4347070d-1e50-4995-a6bf-0cd7f27577a1/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/19128e88-32c2-4906-b774-0d244a58f5d4/031710_Dodd_Bill.pdf
• Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. Chapter 11 Proceedings Examiner’s Report by Anton R. Valukas, Chairman of Jenner & Block, March 11, 2010: http://lehmanreport.jenner.com
• “The End of ‘Too Big to Fail’? Potential New Size and Activity Restrictions on Financial Firms” Debevoise & Plimpton, Financial Institutions Report, February 2010, Volume 2:  http://www.debevoise.com/files/Publication/03e2e683-f36e-488f-a603-032234a6969c/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/c751973d-b52a-408e-8ac7-1468aac35b43/FIReportFebruary2010.pdf

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

• SEC approves Money Market Fund Reforms, January 27, 2010: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-14.htm

U.S. Treasury

• Fact Sheet: Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee”—U.S. Department of the Treasury Press Room, January 14, 2010: http://www.ustreas.gov/releases/tg506.htm