Increasing efficiency of financial markets

International financial markets now comprise a tight web of transactions involving securities trading, arbitrage in multiple markets and currencies, portfolio investments through a complex array of international funds, and massive transborder capital movements.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Recognizing imperfections
2. Recognizing
3. Offering comprehensive financial services
4. Maintaining financial system
5. Increasing efficiency

1. Reporting market prices
2. Reporting international movements of funds
3. Reconciling conflicting roles of money in capitalist systems
4. Reappraising value of money in capitalism
5. Liberalizing financial markets
6. Increasing effectiveness of informal lending
7. Expanding secondary financial markets

1. Restoring confidence in financial markets
2. Managing access to financial markets
3. Financing

1. Disrupting financial markets

1. Inefficiency of financial markets
2. Imperfections of capital markets

1. Overefficient
2. Inefficiency
3. Imperfection
4. Efficiency