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XXIV G24
Technical Group Meeting
March 12,
2007
United Nations
Main Building
ECOSOC Room
New
York, NY
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In partnership
with the G77- New York Chapter
Provisional Agenda
08:45 am
Registration
09:45 am
Opening Remarks
Authorities of G24
Ambassador Munir Akram, Chairman of the Group
of 77 (TBC)
10:20 am
Voice And Participation
in BWIs
Chair:
Martin Abeles, Under Secretary of Finance for Argentina
Keynote Speaker(15
min): Rethinking the Governance of the IMF by Abbas
Mirakhor, Dean of the Board (IMF)
Discussant
(10 min): Brazilian report on 1-2 March G20 meeting
Discussant
(10 min): Low income country perspective
Background Paper:
IMF Voting Reform: Need, Opportunity and Options
by David Woodward, New Economics Foundation, London
Discussion
11:50 am
Break
12:00 am
New IMF Liquidity Mechanisms
Chair:
Martin Abeles, Under Secretary of Finance for
Argentina
Introduction (10 min): IMF Contingency
Financing for Middle Income Countries with Access to Private Capital Markets
by Jan Kregel,
Levy Institute, Bard College
Discussant
(10 min): Manuel Montes,
DESA
Discussion
01:00 pm
Break
01:15 pm
Lunchtime talk in the Delegates' dining room sponsored by Friedrich Ebert Foundation
"Global Imbalances -
Likely Implications for Developing Countries"
with Jose Antonio Ocampo, USG, DESA
02:45 pm
Break
03:00 pm
National Development Strategies Policy Notes
Financial Policies:
Financial Policies
by C. P. Chandrasekhar, Nehru University, New Delhi (10 min)
Macroeconomic Policy:
Macroeconomic and
Growth Policies Notes by Shari Spiegel, Columbia University (10 min);
Background Paper
on Macroeconomic and Growth Policies by Jayati Ghosh, Nehru University,
New Delhi (10 min)
04:30 pm
Break
04:45 pm
Summing up and concluding discussion
06:00
pm
Adjournment
Supplemental Paper by the Bretton Woods
Project and the One World Trust
Bridging the Democratic Deficit:
Double Majority Decision Making and the IMF by Peter Chowla, Jeffrey Oatham
and Claire Wren
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