PRAGOTI

Pragoti reproduces the discussions on the Global Financial Crisis in the General Assembly held on 30th October 2008 featuring panel deliberations involving the newly constituted The Interactive Panel of the United Nations General Assembly on the Global Financial Crisis. The Task Force, presided by Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz of Colombia University, includes, Prabhat Patnaik from the Center for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr of the New School University, Pedro Páez, Minister of Economic Policy and Coordination of Ecuador, Calestous Juma of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Francois Houtart, Chief Editor of Social Campus. Ed: Full structured report including Video Links to follow. This is a rush piece sourced from the United Nations site. All courtesies due to the UN General Assembly website