Stockholm school
of economics
  • Education
  • Research
  • Outreach
  • Library
  • About us
  • Svenska
  • Login
  • Contact
  • Education
    • Bachelor Programs
      • Business and Economics
        • Program Description
        • Application & Admission
        • Student & Alumni Stories
        • FAQ
      • Retail Management
        • Program Description
        • Application & Admission
        • Student & Alumni Stories
        • FAQ
    • Master Programs
      • International Business
        • Program Description
        • Application & Admission
        • Student & Alumni Stories
      • Business & Management
        • Program Description
        • Application & Admission
        • Student & Alumni Stories
      • Finance
        • Program Description
        • Application & Admission
        • Student & Alumni Stories
        • Double Degree
      • Economics
        • Program Description
        • Application & Admission
        • Student & Alumni Stories
        • Double Degree
      • Accounting & Financial Management
        • Program Description
        • Application & Admission
        • Student & Alumni Stories
      • Double Degree
      • Previous Programs
        • General Management
        • Management
        • Marketing & Media Management
    • PhD Programs
      • Business Administration
        • Program Description
        • Application & Admission
        • Student & Alumni Stories
      • Economics
        • Program Description
        • Application & Admission
        • Student & Alumni Stories
      • Finance
        • Program Description
        • Application & Admission
        • Student & Alumni Stories
    • MBA
      • This is our MBA
        • Upcoming start
        • Program Modules and Courses
          • Concentration Innovation & Entrepreneurship
          • Concentration Financial Management
        • Participant Profile
        • Individual Coaching
        • Learning Philosophy
        • MBALive®
      • SSE MBA at a Glance
      • Your application
        • Tuition fee and payment structure
        • Present your business case
        • Benefits for the employer
      • Faculty, Advisory Board, Program Team
        • SSE MBA Faculty
        • SSE MBA Advisory board
        • SSE MBA Program Team
      • Voices of the program
        • Johan Berglund
        • Jenny Lantz
        • Mariette Kristenson
        • Carl Thorfinn
        • Mikael Runsiö
        • Södra
        • Ulrika Martinius
        • Charlotta Eriksson
      • Scholarships
      • SSE MBA Movies
      • Articles
      • Contact
      • FAQ
    • Executive Education
      • SSE Executive Education
      • SSE Riga Executive Education
      • SSE Russia - Executive MBA
      • Hanken & SSE Executive Education
    • Study at SSE
      • Welcome to SSE
      • Global Opportunities
        • Double Degree
        • Student Exchange
        • CEMS
        • GELS Scholarship
        • K-A Bonnier International Fellows Program
        • Wallenberg International Fellows Program
        • The Swedish Program
      • Tuition and Scholarships
      • Tests that we accept
      • Study in Stockholm
      • Student Life
        • The Introductions
        • Student clubs & activities
        • Sports, trips & tournaments
        • Career opportunities
        • Go international
        • Traditions & festivities
        • Inspirational lectures & workshops
        • Your voice matters
      • Student Association
      • Student Ambassadors
      • Housing
        • Pontonjärgatan
        • Luntmakargatan
        • Saltmätargatan
        • Lappkärrsberget
        • Högbergsgatan
        • Liljeholmen
        • Huvudsta
        • Contact
      • Student Handbook & Grading
      • After Graduation
      • Meet Us
  • Research
    • Departments
      • Department of Accounting
        • Research
          • Peer Reviewed Research Articles
          • Books and Book Chapters
          • Ongoing PhD-projects
        • Courses in the Bachelor Programs at SSE
        • Master in Accounting & Financial Management
        • PhD in Accounting and Financial Management
          • PhD Program in Business Administration
          • The Research School in Accounting - FIRE
        • People
        • History
        • News
        • Seminars
        • Contact
        • Accounting and Financial Management Center of Excellence - ACE
      • Department of Management and Organization
        • Research
          • Research areas
          • Projects and programs
        • Education
        • Publications
          • Books
          • Book chapters
          • Journal articles
        • People
      • Department of Marketing and Strategy
        • Research
        • Available Books
        • History
        • People
          • In Memoriam
        • Courses
        • Social Media
        • Contact
      • Department of Economics
        • People
        • News
        • Bachelor & Master Courses
        • PhD Program
        • Research
        • Seminar in Economics
        • Lunch Seminars
        • Dissertations
        • Job Market Candidates
        • Ohlin Lectures
          • Previous Years
        • Mini Courses
        • Conference in June
      • Department of Finance
        • People
          • Faculty
          • PhD Students
          • Staff
        • Bachelor Program
        • Master Program
        • PhD Program
          • Dissertations
          • Former PhD Students
          • Mini Courses
          • Workshops
          • PhD Seminars, Swedish House of Finance
        • Seminars
        • Vacancies
        • Job Market Candidates
        • Swedish House of Finance
      • Department of Law, Languages and Economic Statistics
    • Centers
      • Accounting and Managerial Finance
      • Arts, Business & Culture
        • Current and Recent Research Projects
        • People
        • Publications
          • Books and Doctoral Dissertations
          • Peer Reviewed Research Articles
          • Book Chapters
          • Conference Presentations
          • Reports
        • Events
      • Business Law
        • Courses
        • Libraries
        • Affiliated Organizations
          • Handelsrättsligt Forum
          • Mercurius Förlags AB
          • Stiftelsen MercurIUS
        • People
        • Links
      • Center for Retailing
        • Mission
        • Bachelor in Retail Management
        • Applied Retail Track
          • Retail Club Activities
          • Partners
        • Research
        • News
        • People
      • Consumer Marketing
        • About us
          • Nils-Erik Wirsäll
        • Consumer Knowledge
        • People
        • Contact
      • Economic Statistics
        • People
        • BSc and MSc courses
        • PhD Courses
        • Research
        • Seminars in Economic Statistics
        • News
        • Publications and Projects
        • Video Filmed mathematics lectures for new students
        • Projects
        • STATA
        • Vacancies
      • Entrepreneurship and Business Creation
        • Publications
          • Books, Chapters and Reports
          • Journal articles
        • Research
        • People
        • News
      • Governance and Management Studies
        • About the Center
        • People
        • Projects
          • Board Practice in Major Nordic Companies
          • Financialization and the New Swedish Model
          • From Industrial to Financial Capitalism
          • Governing Complex Co-operation. A Study of Swedish Corporatist Insurance Companies
          • Institutional investor corporate ownership
          • Institutional Analysis of Cross-border Hostile Takeovers
          • Institutionalization of Nomination Committees in Swedish Corporate Governance
          • Rethinking Corporate Governance
        • Publications
        • News
        • Seminars and Events
        • Contact
      • HRM and Knowledge Work
        • Research
          • Human Resource Management
          • Knowledge Work and Professional Services
          • Changing Organizations
        • People
        • Publications
          • Articles in scientific journals
          • Book chapters
          • Books
          • Student Thesis
        • Contact
      • Center for Digital Innovation and Transformation
        • Research
          • Digital Business Transformation and Structural Changes in the Networked Society
          • Digital Transformation Think Tank
          • Managing Digital Transformation – New SIR Book 2017
          • PhD projects
        • People
        • Publications
          • Digital Transformation
          • E-Business
          • Innovation
          • Mobility & NFC
          • Shaping Business
          • Technology and Industry Convergence
          • Other Research
          • Doctoral Dissertations
          • Industry Reports
        • Education
          • Managing Digital Transformation – Theory and Practice
          • Managing Digital Transformation in the Incumbent Firm
          • Strategic Thinking in a Global Digital World
          • Executive Education
          • Media Management (2003-2015)
          • Media Management Alumni
        • Contact
      • Innovation and Operations Management
        • Contact
        • People
        • Projects
        • Publications
      • Legal Research
      • Media and Economic Psychology
        • People
        • Publications
          • Books, Chapters and Reports
          • Conferences and Proceedings
          • Dissertations
          • Journal articles
          • Other publications
        • Research
        • Seminars
        • News
      • Modern Languages
        • Courses
        • People
      • Center for Retail Studies
        • Researchers
        • CFR Research School in Retailing
          • Courses and Schedule
          • Eligibility
          • Application
          • Business Collaborations
          • Important dates
          • Alumni Network
          • Contact
      • Research on Sustainable Markets
      • Sports and Business
        • About Us
          • Research and Ongoing Projects
          • Swedish Alliance for Women in Sport
        • People
        • Contact
        • News
      • Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies
        • Research
          • The Nonprofit Sector
          • Foundations
          • Co-operatives
          • Membership
        • People
          • Lisa Maria Dellmuth
          • Stefan Einarsson
          • Torbjörn Einarsson
          • David Falk
          • Martin Gustavsson
          • Ebba Henrekson
          • Curt-Olof Mann
          • Marta Reuter
          • Erik Sjöstrand
          • Filip Wijkström
          • Fredrik O Andersson
          • Jan Ström
          • Katarina Friberg
          • Maria Grafström
          • Tino Schöllhorn
          • Erik Lundberg
          • Anna Lundstedt
          • Susanne Wallman-Lundåsen
          • Pelle Åberg
        • Education
        • European Civil Society Press
          • ECSP publications
        • Seminars and Events
      • Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research
      • Strategy and Competitiveness
        • Research
          • Strategy and International Business
          • Knowledge in Networks
          • Clusters and Competitiveness
          • Competitiveness Policy
        • Publications
          • Articles and Book Chapters
          • Books and Reports
          • Presentations
          • CSC in media
          • Other reports with contributions
          • Links
        • People
          • Visiting Faculty & Previous Staff
        • Contact
      • The Center for Market Studies
        • Research
          • VIS - The Value In Sight Group
          • IMG - International Marketing Group
          • Market Studies Research Group
        • People
        • Publications
          • Articles
          • Books
          • Book Chapters
          • Doctoral Dissertations
        • History
        • Contact
      • Swedish House of Finance
    • Institutes
      • European Institute of Japanese Studies
        • 欧州日本研究所(日本語)
          • EIJSアカデミーセミナー
          • 研究活動
          • EJARN
          • スタッフ・顧問会・役員会
          • 歴史
          • お問い合わせ先
        • Research
          • Working Paper
          • Publications
        • Education
          • PhD Program
          • Courses
        • Resources
        • EJARN
          • Activity
          • Members
        • Network
        • Recent Activities
        • Seminars
        • News
        • People
        • Board
          • Advisory Board
        • Contact
        • History
      • Center for Advanced Studies in Leadership
        • About us
          • Board and Funding
          • Contact us
        • CASL people
          • Meet faculty
        • Research areas
        • CASL in the press
        • News
        • Seminars
        • CASL impact
        • Publications
        • Leadership update
          • Editorial Team
          • Leadership update archive
        • Partners
      • Institute for Economic and Business History Research
        • People
          • Board
        • Research
          • Research Seminars
          • Heckscher Lectures
          • Håkan Lindgren Prize
          • About EHFF
          • Courses given by EHFF
        • Publications
          • Research reports
          • Working papers
        • Partners and Journals
      • Stockholm School of Economics Institute for Research
        • Research Centers
        • The SIR Research Award
        • Seminars & Conferences
          • Previous Years
        • SIR Publications
          • SIR´s Yearbook 2017
          • SIR's Yearbook 2016
          • SIR's Yearbook 2015
        • About SIR
          • The Board
          • Administrative Office
          • Vacancies
        • Contact
        • Internal
          • Research funding and applications
          • Finance and travel
          • Library/IT/Support
      • Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets
        • About us
          • More about us
          • Misum Board
          • Press Contact
          • Find us
          • PRME
        • People
        • Misum Research
          • Sustainable Finance
          • Sustainable Socioeconomic Development
          • Innovating Markets
        • Misum Archive
          • Academic Publications
          • Misum Interviews
          • Misum in the media
          • Misum Podcasts
        • Event archive
          • Sustainable Consumption
          • Cass Sunstein on Nudging
          • Green Finance
          • Misum/Mistra Financial Systems meets Harrison Hong
          • Misum och Naturskyddsföreningen seminarium
          • Nu kör vi mot 2030 - hur blir din affärsidé en vinnare?
          • Misum and Hybrid Talks
          • Från invandring till vinnvandring 22 mars
        • Events and Activities
        • News from Misum
      • Stockholm China Economic Research Institute
        • About Us
          • Statement from the Director
          • SCERI Board
        • Research
          • Working Paper Series
          • Financial Markets and Financial Integration
          • Financial Policies
          • Political Participation by Business Owners
        • Education
        • People
        • Seminars and Conferences
          • 2017 Conference
          • 2016 Conference
          • 2015 Conference
          • 2014 Conference
          • 2013 Conference
          • 2012 Conference
          • Lecture by Leif Johansson, Chairman of the Board of Ericsson, 8 April 2016
          • 2018 Conference
        • News
      • Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics
        • About us
          • Contact
          • History
          • Board and Funding
          • Sister Institutes
          • Social media
        • Events
        • News
        • People
          • Affiliated Faculty
        • Publications
    • Dissertations
  • Outreach
    • Alumni and Friends
      • Upcoming Events
      • Official Alumni Associations
        • UK Friends of SSE
        • SSE Alumni Club
        • American Friends
      • Alumni of the Year Award 2018
      • Homecoming
      • Annual Fund
      • American Friends of SSE Scholarship
      • Rally for SSE!
        • terms
        • Bankgiro
          • Thank you
        • Prizes and winners
        • Sponsors
        • FAQ
      • Donate Now
      • Hermes Leadership Circle
      • Donor stories
      • Reunions
    • Corporate Relations
      • Corporate Partnership Program
        • New concept Capital Partners
      • Advisory Board
      • Corporate Partners
      • Involvement in Education
      • Voices about the Corporate Partnership Program
      • Team Corporate Relations
      • Innovative and Sustainable Business Development
        • Professorship, Center and Research Program
        • Professor Sarah Jack
        • Outreach Program
        • Our Supporters
    • Career Management
      • Career Services for International students
      • Skills Courses
      • MSc Mentor Program
        • Mentee
        • Mentor
        • Contact us
    • SSE Initiatives
      • Global Challenges
        • Educational shift
        • Courses
        • Global Challenges Foundation
        • Advisory Board
      • SSE Gunnar Hedlund Award
        • Previous winners
      • SSE Art Initiative
        • Events and Exhibitions
          • Symposiums
          • Research Colloquia
          • Collection
          • Exhibitions
          • Screenings
          • Art Talks
          • Streaming Poetry
        • Calendar
        • About us
        • Visit us
        • The Board Room
        • Sustainable Art
      • SSE and the Nobel Prize
        • Award Ceremony Speech
      • RAMP
        • Apply Now!
        • Admission Criteria
        • Application Process
        • Important Dates
        • Information Meetings
        • Our Internship Companies
        • Voices of RAMP
        • Class of 2016/2017
          • Adel al Lulu
          • Afaaf Naddour
          • Ali Rajab
          • Azeb Samuel
          • Basem Alsalameh
          • Bisrat Zeleke
          • Housam Hallak
          • Hussam Alhumsi
          • Ibaa Halal
          • Jack Bandek
          • Lana Haddad
          • Majd Dagher
          • Negin Namazi
          • Rand Entabi
        • Contact Us
      • Female Economist of the Year
        • About the scholarship
          • Previous winners
          • Press
          • Founder
        • Host Company 2018
        • Contact
      • SSE Business Lab
        • INITIATE
          • The Startup School
          • Sthlm Pitch Meetup
          • Hackathon
        • INCUBATE
          • Apply to INCUBATE
          • The Incubate Program
          • Professional Services Partners
          • Software & Tools Partners
          • Incubate Members
          • Incubate Alumni
        • People
        • Careers
      • SSE Sisters
  • Library
    • Services
      • Borrowing
      • Consult a Librarian
      • Off Campus Access to e-Resources
      • Databases
      • E-Books
      • Reading Impediments
      • Suggest a Book for Acquisition
      • FAQ
    • News
    • SSE Publications
      • Licentiate Dissertations in Fulltext
      • Doctoral Dissertations in Fulltext
      • Working Paper Series
      • Master's Theses
      • Bachelor's Theses
  • About us
    • Organization
      • Board of Directors and International Advisory Council
      • Management
      • Stockholm School of Economics Association
      • Professional Services units
        • Academic Affairs
        • Academic Support & Records
        • External Relations
          • Career Management
          • Communications & Marketing
          • Corporate Relations
          • Alumni and Foundation Relations
          • Special Events
        • Quality Assurance
        • Office of Finance and Accounting
        • IT Services
        • Human resources
        • Program Office
        • Research Office
        • Services and Purchasing
      • Departments
      • Mission and Vision
      • Equality and Diversity
      • SSE in Print
    • History
      • Year by Year
      • 100 Years Jubilee
        • Centennial Lectures
    • Accreditations and Rankings
      • International rankings
      • PRME
      • EQUIS
      • SSE Worldwide
    • Contact
      • Press Contact
        • Press Photos
        • Press Clips
      • School Visits
    • Vacancies
  • Svenska
  • Login
  • Contact
  • SSE
  • About us
  • News
  • SITE News
  • 2015
  • "Finance for Sustainable Development” conference highlights and speakers’ presentations
About us
  • Organization
  • History
  • Accreditations and Rankings
  • Contact
  • Vacancies

"Finance for Sustainable Development" conference highlights and speakers’ presentations

2015-05-14

On May 11 the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs organized Development Day 2015 at the Stockholm School of Economics. As in previous years, the conference gathered a mix of international scholars and practitioners from the public, private and civil society sectors. We hope that all of more than 100 participants enjoyed the conference and we will meet again next year at Development Day 2016.

Since 2011, the Stockholm Institute for Transition Economics (SITE) together with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has organized a yearly conference on timely topics within development policy. The conference invites scholars, policy makers and business representatives to a conversation about what current research says about challenges facing the developing world, how to translate that knowledge into action, and how broad segments of society can get involved in identifying and financing solutions. In 2011 the topic was aid effectiveness (leading up to the High Level meeting in Busan, South Korea, that year), in 2012 it was the Arab Spring. In 2013 the topic was the Post 2015 Development Agenda and in 2014 it was the role of women in development. The Development Day 2015 conference was dedicated to finance for sustainable development.

The conference started with welcome words by Anders Olofsgård, deputy director at SITE, and an opening speech by Helen Eduards, Head of the Department for Aid Management, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

John McArthur from the Brookings Institution held the first presentation “9 Priority Financing for Development Commitments” which sparked a discussion about the current state of financing for sustainable development around the world.

9 Priority Financing for Development Commitments from Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics

Raj M. Desai from Georgetown University and the Brookings Institution gave the next talk "Private Aid and the Financing of Development". During his talk, Professor Desai presented new data on private development assistance, discussed the "California Consensus" and gave examples of crowd funding platforms such as Kiva and the Global Giving Portal.

Private Aid and the Financing of Development from Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics

After a short coffee break Amadou Sy from the Brookings Institution presented "Financing Africa's Sustainable Development". He focused on the common African position on the post-2015 sustainable development goals, Africa's structural economic transition and the question how to finance Africa's lingering infrastructure needs.

Financing Africa’s Sustainable Development from Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics

Theo Talbot from the Centre for Global Development gave a talk titled "Paying for Success: Catalysing Private Investment for Development". He discussed the existing instruments available for using ODA to leverage private investments and offered suggestions for how to improve on the existing portfolio of instruments.

Paying for Success: Catalysing Private Investment for Development from Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics

Professor Dean Yang from the University of Michigan talked about "Migration, Remittances and Economic Development". Professor Yang covered existing evidence on the development impact of migration and remittances, as well as some evidence on how to boost the development impact of remittance flows.

Migration, Remittances, and Economic Development from Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics

After lunch, we saw the day's first panel, on the topic "A changing financial landscape: ODA, private aid and private investments". The participants; Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Director-General at Sida, Kerstin Hessius, CEO at Tredje AP Fonden, Adis Dzebo from Stockholm Environment Institute, Anneli Rogeman, CEO at We Effect and Amadou Sy from the Brookings Institution, discussed among other things the prospects of using private institutional money to finance, developing country infrastructure, the role ODA can play in promoting that, the differing objectives of NGOs and the private commercial sector, and the importance of putting the resources to use for an ecologically and socially sustainable development process.

After that, Jolanda Profos from the OECD presented the report "States of Fragility 2015". The report introduced a new concept for thinking about states of fragility and gave an up to date presentation of the opportunities and challenges facing fragile states trying to achieve the SDGs.

States of Fragility 2015 from Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics

The last session of the conference was a second panel on the topic "Fragile States and Remittances". Participants were Gary Milante, director at SIPRI, Annika Sundén, chief economist at Sida, Sadia Hassanen from Mångkulturellt Centrum, Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou, director at IDPS-OECD and Dean Yang from University of Michigan.

Torbjörn Becker, director of SITE, closed the conference expressing appreciation to all conference participants and speakers for insightful presentations and fruitful discussions. Conference topics were also debated on Twitter and Facebook so please check up these discussions using conference hashtag #DevDayFinance on Twitter. We've posted a selection of conference photos on our website and SITE's Facebook account. If you'd like to get copies of these photos, please download them from SITE's Facebook account under the Creative Commons license.

In order to make next Development Day conference even more successful we kindly ask you to fill out this short post conference survey that should take no more than 4 minutes of your time. We thank you in advance for your suggestions and comments.

Please complete the conference survey by clicking here!

On May 11 the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs organized...

Posted by Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics on Thursday, May 14, 2015

STOCKHOLM INSTITUTE OF TRANSITION ECONOMICS

  • Home
  • About us
  • Events
  • News
  • People
  • Publications
Stockholm School of Economics | Box 6501 | SE-113 83 Stockholm | E-mail: info@hhs.se | Phone: +46 8 736 90 00
Apsia
CEMS
EFMD
PIM Network
PRME