The Vision for Turkey in the UN Security Council, Fall 2008

Financing for development is no longer about the old paradigm of aid dependency or charity, or about the North teaching the South. It is about an investment in a stable and inclusive future. That requires including new voices at the table, boosting South-South partnerships, and accepting that the North must learn to learn from the South. Today, as the world economy is buffeted by the worst financial crisis seen in decades, a crisis that entails grave implications for developing countries and threatens to undo the hard-won gains in growth and development of the past years, the world needs international economic cooperation even more.

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