FONDAD

Fondad is an independent policy research centre and a forum for international discussion established in the Netherlands. Supported by a worldwide network of experts, it provides policy-oriented research on North-South issues in a globalising world, in particular international financial issues for developing countries. Fondad offers factual background information and practical strategies for policymakers and other interested groups in industrial, developing and transition countries.

History. Fondad was created in 1986 to discuss the functioning of the international monetary system and the debt crisis, with the view that the debt crisis of the early 1980s was a symptom of a malfunctioning, flawed system - see, for example, Jan Joost Teunissen's article "The International Monetary Crunch: Crisis or Scandal?", Alternatives, Volume XII, No. 3, July 1987.

Among the economists who supported the founding of Fondad were the late Robert Triffin and Jan Tinbergen. H. Johannes Witteveen, former managing director of the IMF and former minister of finance, who still actively follows current developments in global financial markets and the world economy, has been acting as a member of the Advisory Board and has contributed to several Fondad publications.

Publications. All books published by Fondad can be found under "New Publications" and "All Publications". You can read them on the screen, download them, and order them.
Under "Other Publications", you will find unpublished articles and articles published by others.

The Credit Crisis. On the newly created Fondad blog "Thoughts" there is an ongoing discussion by members of the Fondad network on the current turmoil of global financial markets. Fondad is planning a series of workshops on the credit crisis, in cooperation with the North-South Institute in Canada and other organisations. The first workshop will be held in New York at Columbia University. Other workshops will follow in Asia and Europe.

Asian Economic Integration, and National Development Strategies: Challenges to Asia in a Fast-Changing World - Kuala Lumpur Conference, August 2007.
With the Malaysian Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) and other co-sponsors, Fondad organised a very fruitful conference in Kuala Lumpur in August 2007. Papers were presented by Fan Gang (National Economic Research Institute), Lin See Yan (National Economic Action Council), Muhamad Chatib Basri (University of Indonesia), Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista (University of Philippines), Yung Chul Park (Seoul National University), Chia Siow Yue (Singapore Institute of International Affairs) and Wing Thye Woo (Brookings and University of California).