UK woos India to solve Wall St crisis

New York, September 27: : In a bid to rope in countries like India to join hands in tackling the financial meltdown in the US, British Premier Gordon Brown has said it cannot be left to the elite G-8 club alone to come out with strategies and wanted the involvement of G-20, which includes developing nations, as well.

With ways to prevent recurrence of the financial crisis high on the agenda of the world leaders assembled for the UN General Assembly, the suggestion of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, an economist-turned politician, for a new international initiative to bring structural reform in the global financial system got instant support of Brown.

During their meeting on the margins of the UN General Assembly, Brown agreed with Singh that the existing global financial architecture was not robust enough to deal with the international turbulence in financial markets.

Highlighting the need for broader strategies, Brown said the G-20 will be well-suited to deal with the problem.

Singh said restoration of financial confidence is the need of the hour for the healthy growth of the economy. He said he will be to happy to work with Britain and other countries to give his expertise and work on ways to overcome the financial crisis.

The Indian Prime Minister, a former World Bank economist, suddenly finds himself in a situation where world leaders are looking forward to him to evolve ways to deal with the financial turmoil.

US President George W Bush, who is in the midst of firefighting operations to deal with the crisis, has already set the ball rolling when he told Singh that the one person he wanted to spend time with was the Prime Minister for his calming and serene effect.

Addressing the UNGA session, Singh himself said there is a need for a new international initiative to bring structural reform in the world's financial system with more effective regulation and stronger systems of multilateral consultations and surveillance.

The explosion of financial innovation unaccompanied by credible systemic regulation has made the financial system vulnerable.

"The resulting crisis of confidence threatens global prosperity in the increasingly interdependent world in which we live," Singh said.

Brown and Singh felt it was high time there was a single monitoring mechanism for a surveillance of the world's financial system. Singh felt the system must be designed in as inclusive a manner as possible.

Singh said the existing financial system was not serving the purpose The two leaders felt that the...

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Fly-by-night operators by Munnabhai on 2008-09-27 16:38:48.974563+05:30
We in India had similar problems, especially in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, when a large number of fly-by-night operators started chit fund and blade companies which were not regulated properly. Millions lost their hard earned money. Similar was the case when Harshad Mehta and Ketan Parikh bled the stock markets. But gullible people still get cheated regulators or no regulators!

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Importance Central Bank's Regulation by Muralidhar Bhat on 2008-09-27 11:24:51.817216+05:30
We now understand how important is the intervention in regulating financial sector. So, it is time that whole world followed the system, before it is too late.It is not fare to leave everything to market's control.

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