Stephany Griffith-Jones
By Stephany Griffith-Jones, financial markets program director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, USA. She has written and edited 20 books. Her latest, co-edited with Jose Antonio Ocampo and Joseph Stiglitz, is Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2010).
The notion of a financial transaction tax has been circulating for years. The United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals, held on 20-22 September 2010, was a perfect opportunity to see if world leaders were able to put their money where their mouth is.
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6 October, 2010
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