The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) hereby has the pleasure of inviting you to a public seminar with Inge Kaul and Pedro Conceição, UNDP, on

The

New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges

Monday, 23 January 2006, 10.00-12.00

Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K

Background

Departuring from their recent publication The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges Ms. Kaul and Mr. Conceição take stock of how public finance has changed in response to the challenges – exigencies and opportunities – presented by globalisation.
They find that, at the national level, a major new role of public finance is to support the state in blending external and domestic policy demands, fostering policy harmonisation behind national borders, preventing negative externalities from spilling over or external shocks from spilling in and undermining the country’s stability or the security of its people. Public finance plays a major role in channeling public and private resources towards making this type of international cooperation behind national borders happen.
But to be resolved effectively and efficiently, many global issues also require some form of cooperation with others abroad – international cooperation beyond borders. Yet, the instruments that are being introduced into the international realm to deal with issues like global climate stability, terrorism, communicable diseases, or economic and financial crises, are increasingly those that reflect the new balance between markets and states, which has emerged throughout the world during the past several decades. As a result, the nature of international cooperation is changing fundamentally – from being a predominantly intergovernmental process and concerned with “foreign” affairs to a multi-actor process, based on public-private partnering and concerned with common issues, that is issues, which straddle across the domestic/foreign divide and bind nations and their people together.

Biographies

Inge Kaul is currently Director, Office of Development Studies, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York, a position she has held since 1995. Ms. Kaul has held a number of positions within the UNDP since she was first employed in 1981. Ms. Kaul has a Ph.D. from Konstanz University, Germany, in interdisciplinary studies (economics and sociology) and has written a number of books on diverse topics. She is currently member of a number of boards of professional organisations and commissions such as the International Task Force on Global Public Goods, Global Development Network (GDN) and more.

Pedro Filipe Teixeira da Conceição is currently Deputy Director and Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Development Studies, United Nations Development Programme (since 26 October 2001). He has a Ph.D. in Public Policy, from Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. Before his present position Mr. Conceição held a position as assistant professor at the Technical University of Lisbon’s IST.

Practical Information

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required by e-mail including name, title and organisation to or by following this link no later than 20 January 2006 at 12.00 noon. Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.

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