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Head of Research
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Research Topics
Innovative instruments of development finance
The rise of China and India
Sovereign Wealth Funds
helmut.reisen@oecd.org / Phone: +33 1 45 24 82 82
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Biography
Helmut Reisen is head of reseach of the OECD Development Centre and will coordinate the first OECD Global Development Outlook, to be published in 2010. His recent work includes analysis of sovereign wealth funds, an investigation into China's economic impact on poor countries and on their debt sustainability, a study on the comparative value of grants and concessional loans as instruments of development finance, and an overview of innovative approaches to funding the Millennium Development Goals.
Since July 2006, he has coordinated key analytical work for the OECD Global Forum on Development, which is engaging policy makers in informal dialogue on effective development finance.
Mr Reisen has written extensively in scholarly journals* and the financial press, including two prize-winning essays in the Amex Bank Review competition. He writes a regular economics column in Internationale Politik and in Financial Times Deutschland and is a member of the editorial boards of International Finance, Deutsche Bank Research Notes and Internationale Politik.
Mr Reisen holds a PhD from Cologne University and is a Professor of International Economics at the University of Basel. Prior to joining the OECD, he worked at Commerzbank AG, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, the Federation of German Industries and the German Ministry of Economics.
CV
> coming soon
Books & Studies
> The Rise of China and India: What's in it for Africa? (2006)
By Helmut Reisen, A. Goldstein, N. Pinaud and X. Chen
> After Gleneagles: What role for loans in ODA? (2006)
By Daniel Cohen, P. Jacquet and H. Reisen
> Innovative Approaches to Funding the Millennium Development Goals (2004)
By Helmut Reisen
> Don't Fix, Don't Float (8/2001)
By Jorge Braga de Macedo, D. Cohen and H. Reisen
> Pensions, Savings, and Capital Flows: From Ageing to Emerging Markets (1/2000)
By Helmut Reisen, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham
Working Papers & Policy Insights
> How to Spend It: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Wealth of Nations (02/2008 / FR)
By Helmut Reisen, OECD Development Centre Policy Insights No. 59
> Prudent versus Imprudent Lending to Africa: From Debt Relief to Emerging Lenders (01/2008)
By Helmut Reisen and Sokhna Ndoye, OECD Development Centre Working Papers No. 268
> Is China Actually Helping Improve Debt Sustainability in Africa? (10/2007)
By Helmut Reisen, G24 Policy Brief No. 9
> Loans or Grants (1/2007)
By Helmut Reisen, D. Cohen and P. Jacquet, Discussion Paper Series No. 6024, Centre for Economic Policy Research
> Exchange rate regimes and macroeconomic performance in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico (8/2005)
By Martín Grandes and H. Reisen, CEPAL Review Nº 86,pages 7-26. (also available in Spanish)
> Macroeconomic Policies: New Issues of Interdependence (1/2005)
By Helmut Reisen, M. Grandes and N. Pinaud
> Financing Global and Regional Public Goods through ODA: Analysis and Evidence From the OECD Creditor Reporting System (1/2004)
By Helmut Reisen, M. Soto and T. Weithöner
> Ratings Since the Asian Crisis (11/2003)
By Helmut Reisen
> Float in Order to Fix? Lessons from Emerging Markets for EU Accession Countries (11/2003)
By Jorge Braga de Macedo and Helmut Reisen
> Warning: Past Pension Fund Performance is No Guarantee for Future Performance (1998)
By Helmut Reisen, in OECD, Institutional Investors in the New Financial Landscape, Paris
> On the Wealth of Nations and Retirees (1994)
By Helmut Reisen, Amex Bank Review Awards Prize Essays, Finance and the International Economy Vol. 8.
Presentations
> Prudent versus Imprudent Lending to Africa after HIPC and MDRI (15-16 November 2007)
Conference presentation at "Debt Sustainability: A Long-Term Challenge", organised by the GTZ, Berlin.
> The Asian Giants' Integration into the World Economy: What Does it Mean to the Poor and the Rich? (14-15 November 2007)
Presentation at IIASA Conference 2007 on "Global Development: Science and Policies for the Future", Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria (watch the presentation on video)
> China’s and India’s Implications for the World Economy (19 December 2006)
Basel University Lectures Series
> China and India: What’s in it for Africa? (18-19 January 2006)
Prepared for Seventh Annual Global Development Conference, St. Petersburg
> Asia’s Growing Presence in the Global Economy: What’s in for Africa? (23 May 2005)
Presentation for ABCDE Conference, Amsterdam
> Demography, Exchange Rates and Financial Assets: A Two-Country Perspective (9/2004)
Prepared for CFS-Allianz Group conference on 'Capital markets in the long-term: Demography, economic development and funded pensions systems', Frankfurt/Main
> Will Basel II Contribute to Convergence in International Capital Flows? (2001)
Österreichische Nationalbank, 29. Volkswirtschaftliche Tagung 2001
Articles in Journals and in the Media
> Fonds souverains et économie du développement, Revue de politique économique 7/8-2008
> Schleichende Ansteckung statt Abkopplung (Financial Times Deutschland Blog - 15 April 2008)
> Anfällige Anlageregion Afrika?, Internationale Politik, April 2008
> Listen to "Cross Roads Debate" on RFI: 
> Ja, mach nur einen G8-Plan, Internationale Politik, 1/2008, pp.80-81.
> Loans or Grants?, Review of World Economics, Vol. 143.4 (4/2007), pp. 764-782 (with Daniel Cohen and Pierre Jacquet).
> Chine/Afrique: vers une dette plus soutenable ? Courrier de la planète n° 84, 01/08
> Neue Heuschrecken, Internationale Politik, 10/07 (English Version)
> Schwächelnde Schwestern: Verlieren Währungsfonds und Weltbank dauerhaft an Bedeutung?, Internationale Politik, 7-8/2007
> Wer hat Angst vor China in Afrika?, Internationale Politik, 5/2007
> Tante-Emma-Läden oder Supermarkt?, Internationale Politik, 1/2007
> Lob der Langsamkeit, Internationale Politik, 10/2006
> Der Fluch der schwarzen Schmiere, Internationale Politik, 7/2006
> Die asiatischen Giganten und Afrika, Internationale Politik, 4/2006
> Globalisierung, Proletariat und Prekariat , Internationale Politik, 1/2006
> Den Armen helfen – aber wie? , Internationale Politik, 11/2005
> Forgive Debt and Keep on Lending / Lob des Kredits (8-9/2005)
By Helmut Reisen and Daniel Cohen, Development & Co-operation / Entwicklung & Zusammenarbeit
> Live 8, Grants and Loans, (with Daniel Cohen), OECD Observer, 7/2005
> Schwarzmalers Albtraum, Internationale Politik, 7/2005
> China's Währungspolitik und das internationale Währungssystem, Internationale Politik, 4/2005
> Beben, Fluten und öffentliche Hilfe, Internationale Politik, 2/2005
> 50 Milliarden Dollar dringend gesucht!, Internationale Politik, 1/2005
> Fund ing the fight against global poverty, OECD Observer, 11/2004
> Tobin tax: Could it work?, OECD Observer, 2/2002
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