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8 – How to finance the development of the poorest countries on the planet.

During the first half of 2008, world prices of agricultural raw materials exploded, reaching "historical" levels. Since the world calls for a strengthening of regulation, here is the subject of a big question: How does one prevent hedge funds from playing with the vital needs of humanity?
Beyond this urgency, the issue of development of the poorest countries is based on initiatives of national and international organizations carried out in partnership with the private sector and
local association networks. A private sector that represents the greatest untapped resource for innovation and investment, in the race to achieve the Millennium Development Objectives.
All these initiatives aim to help governments and communities identify their own solutions to development challenges.

Jean-Michel SEVERINO - Managing Director - Agence Française de Développement (France)

The French Development Agency, a financial institution present on all five continents, aims at fostering economic growth and preserving the environment as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals set out in 2000 by the United Nations to cut poverty by half by 2015.
Jean-Michel SEVERINO, Managing Director of the French Development Agency, has held positions of responsibility, notably at the World Bank (World Bank director for Central Europe and vice-president for East Asia and the Pacific). He is also a member of the Governor’s Consultative Committee of the African Development Bank.

Rajendra SHENDE - Head of the OzonAction Programme, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (France)

Mr. Rajendra M. Shende is a UN diplomat engaged in providing policy advise to more than 140 developing countries to eliminate use of Ozone Depleting Substances and assists them so that they get multiple development benefits by complying with the Montreal Protocol.
Before joining UNEP, Mr. Shende had a career in corporate business world in India, including senior management positions in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energy in the manufacturing processes.

He is Coordinating Lead Author of Special Report on Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and global climate system as part of the assessment reports by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that won Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Download his Powerpoint presentation: Powerpoint Rajendra SHENDE