INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY UNLOCKING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT: ROLE OF FINANCIAL SECTOR Bali, 8-9 December 2016
INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY
UNLOCKING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT: ROLE OF FINANCIAL SECTOR
Bali, 8-9 December 2016
Background
Asian countries, include Indonesia, are embarking on a new stage of its development, away from a heavy reliance on the commodity sector and toward a more balanced and equitable growth. To support and finance its enormous investment needs, countries will need to mobilize sizable fa1savings domestically and build a strong financial system.
This conference will provide an opportunity to look at some of the key issues in this area, including by taking stock at the international experience, and point to some important policy directions: how to mobilize savings and effectively intermediate those to the best investment opportunities? How to provide financing to underserved but key sectors of the economy, to SMEs and to public infrastructure? How to ensure that the financial development and deepening does not threaten financial and macroeconomic stability?
Objectives
The main objective of the forum is to look at the international experience, in designing financial sector policies to support rapid and sustainable growth and avoid the middle income trap and to come up with policy recommendations. The Forum will focus on these themes with presentations and discussions by policy-makers, influential thinkers, academics, and stakeholders:
- · International evidence on how to mobilize and utilize savings more productively to finance investment and meet development objectives: how an inclusive and efficient financial intermediation process through financial institution, instruments, and market (financial system) can promote sustainable economic development.
- · Debottlenecking the long-term financing challenges for strategic sectors of the economy, particularly infrastructure, by optimizing the role of financial system. It will also cover the utilization of non-traditional financial instruments such as project bonds, asset securitizations, and crowd-funding.
- · Addressing the trade-off between allowing financial system innovation and stability and development given the current challenges in emerging markets.
Presenters and discussants at the Forum will be expected to discuss policy options, strategies and challenges for Indonesia in avoiding the middle income trap.
Expected Outputs: Background paper, proceedings, report and summary of policy recommendations and priorities from the conference.
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