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The 7th annual Conference "Regions and Cities of Russia.." (permalink )

On May 30th, 2007  State Debt Committee of the City of Moscow and  Mosfinagency held the 7th annual Conference "Regions and Cities of Russia: “Organisation of financing of  investment programmes " (Venue - Offices of the City of Moscow Government, 36/9 Novy Arbat Str.).

The Conference, earlier named “Regions and Cities of Russia: Borrowing as an Instrument of Economic Policy”, remains the only All-Russia forum on sub-federal and municipal borrowings in the Russian Federation.

            Tht 7th annual Conference  focused mainly on the problems of financing national and long-term investment projects as well as on the prospects for private public partnership.

The main topics discussed at the Conference were:

-        problems related to realization of top priority national projects and long-term investment programmes,  the sources for their financing;

-        new edition of the Budgetary Code and  intergovernmental fiscal relations;

-        cooperation of federal and local authorities for realization of investment programmes in the Russian regions and cities;

-        mechanisms of attracting private capital for financing Russian regional and municipal investment programmes, prospects for development of private public partnership;

-        development of  municipal and sub-federal bond market in the Russian Federation,  problems related to municipal and sub-federal debt management, prospects for establishment a Federal municipal financing agency, and other issues.

 

The Programme of the Conference is below, together with those presentations which were made in English. Presentations in Russian can be found in the appropriate section of the Russian version of this web-site.

 


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