Financing for development : perspectives and issues / Percy S. Mistry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125).

The Importance and Potential Value of UNCFD -- An Eroding Public Mandate for Aid? -- A New Raison d'Etre for FfD? -- Mobilising Domestic Financial Resources for Development -- Findings and Recommendations of the Zedillo Panel Report -- Additional Issues for Commonwealth Finance Ministers -- Targets for Increasing Gross and Net Domestic Savings -- Maximising Earnings from Trade for Financing Development -- Findings and Recommendations of the Zedillo Panel Report -- Issues for Commonwealth Finance Ministers to Consider in Enhancing Trade Prospects -- The Special Role of the Commonwealth Secretariat -- Mobilising External Private Capital for Financing Development -- Observations and Recommendations of the Zedillo Panel -- Issues for Commonwealth Finance Ministers to Consider in Mobilising Private Capital -- Backdrop and Analysis -- Private Capital Flows and Development -- The Distinction between Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment -- Foreign Direct Investment -- Actions to Encourage Foreign Direct Investment Flows -- Implications for Commonwealth Countries--Foreign Direct Investment -- Foreign Portfolio Investment -- Implications for Commonwealth Countries--Foreign Portfolio Investment -- Private Voluntary Flows -- Mobilising Official Development Assistance for Financing Development -- A Contextual Digression on Whether Aid Works -- Issues Raised by ZPR/SGR on Increasing Official Resource Flows -- Prospects for Increasing ODA and Other Official Resource Flows -- Global Taxation as a Means for Financing Development.