Conferencia UNCTAD-UAM: Responsible Sovereign Financing

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has released in 2011 a set of “Principles on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing”. The purpose of these Principles is to fill in a crucial gap in international sovereign financing - the non-existence of a set of essential principles, for all types of sovereign debt contracting, that is globally agreed on. The Principles are conceptualized in a holistic way and are thus meant to be applied to sovereign borrowers, developed or developing countries alike, as well as their lenders.

In the context of the Campus of Excellence status awarded to the UAM-CSIC, UNCTAD and the University Autónoma of Madrid (UAM), through its schools of Law and Economics, are organizing the Conference "Responsible Sovereign Borrowing and Lending: The Search for Common Principles”.*

*http://www.uam.es/otros/unctad-uam/