2010 Global Development Finance Conference

Theme: Valuing Growth Trends in Development Finance A scientific understanding of the theory and practice of development finance is central to our understanding of how global financial architecture emerges and evolves across developing, emerging and developed economies. The recent financial crisis has exposed major weaknesses in our understanding of how the elements that drive global finance operate. At the heart of this failure is the scientific world’s inability to develop appropriate scientific research in development finance theory and practice.