Financiële sector
De financiële sector speelt een belangrijke rol in het functioneren van
de economie en maatschappij in veel landen. SOMO doet onderzoek naar de
manier waarop banken, verzekeraars en andere financiële conglomeraten
invloed hebben op het leven van mensen, armoede en duurzame
ontwikkeling, vooral in ontwikkelingslanden. Niet alleen de private
financiële bedrijven worden onder de loep genomen, maar ook de manier
waarop de financiële sector internationaal wordt gereguleerd, of beter
gezegd, geliberaliseerd. SOMO probeert duidelijk te maken hoe
internationaal overheidsbeleid en MVO initiatieven in deze sector al
dan niet leiden tot duurzame ontwikkeling.
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Sticking up for UNCTAD
19-04-2012
“The financial sector should serve the public interest again. Regulation of financial services has to be done in conjunction with the reform of trade agreements. UNCTAD, the UN body for trade and development, is the preferred organisation to monitor this process in the interest of developing countries.” In support of UNCTAD, senior researcher Myriam Vander Stichele of SOMO will address the thirteenth UNCTAD conference with similar words in Doha, Qatar on Thursday.
New issue of EU Financial Reforms newsletter
30-03-2012
WEED and SOMO just issued another edition of the Newsletter on EU financial reforms. It covers many financial reform processes and events, including the draft report by the European Parliament (just released!), which affect people all over Europe and in the world as the editorial explains.
Dutch financial institutions speculate in food markets
23-12-2011
On the eve of Christmas, the Dutch TV program Zembla broadcast the documentary Trade in Hunger, focusing on the activities of Dutch financial institutions on the derivates market in staple foods such as corn, grains, and sugar. This TV programme is based on the new SOMO report ‘Food Markets in Dutch. Dutch banks and pension funds in agricultural derivatives markets’, published today, revealing the extent to which the largest Dutch banks and pension funds are active on food derivatives markets.
Feeding the Financial Hype
06-12-2011
A new report, Feeding the Financial Hype, is released today by SOMO. The report highlights growing evidence that dramatically increased financial investments in commodity derivatives markets over recent years have caused food prices to soar. This has a negative impact on the poorest people, who spend up to 80 percent of their income on food.
Lack of vision in the EU’s financial reforms
02-11-2011
On the eve of the G20 Summit in Cannes, SOMO has analysed the European Union’s financial reform process, agreed on by the G20, in its new report “The missing dimension. How European financial reforms ignore developing countries and sustainability”. SOMO concludes that the EU’s financial reforms have been not only much too slow and too weak – aggravating the debt and bank problems in the Eurozone.
