Best practice and developing soft-law frameworks

Best practice and developing soft-law frameworks will provide capacity building on the use of an updated version of UNCTAD’s soft-law frameworks for both lenders and sovereign borrowers, including UNCTAD Principles of Promoting Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing (2012)UNCTAD Guide and Roadmap for Sovereign Debt Workouts (2015)

29 September 2022

La financiación soberana es una de las áreas menos desarrolladas del derecho internacional, ya que la deuda soberana se rige principalmente por la legislación nacional. Por eso, no existen límites claros en cuanto al comportamiento de los acreedores y los prestatarios, ni tampoco en cuanto a las expectativas de dicho comportamiento. Este vacío legal ha impedido que se implantasen medidas disuasorias adecuadas ante prácticas no responsables o subóptimas de otorgamiento y toma de préstamos soberanos.

05 July 2022

Sovereign financing is one of the most underdeveloped areas of international law as sovereign debts are mainly governed by domestic laws.  As a result, there are no clear boundaries relating to creditor and borrower behavior - or indeed expectations as to such behavior.

06 - 07 July 2022

This meeting will discuss policy options and recommendations to respond to and recover from external shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic; demonstrate key policy tools and research findings of the project; and open a dialogue among policy makers and experts from different regions to share their experiences and learnings.