1  BIS Review 82/1999  What I would like to do today is survey some of the work taking place under the general heading of “reforming the global financial architecture” and to put some New Zealand perspectives on that process. Note that these are not necessarily the views of the New Zealand Government.
Rather they are the views of an individual who happens to have followed the discussion and attended a number of meetings where these issues were under discussion. My comments will be necessarily partial and selective. Why that is so is neatly summarized by Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley) in a recent publication (“Toward a New International Financial Architecture.