XXVIII G24 Technical Group Meeting

  March 23-24, 2009

  Auditorium, HQ1 RD-710

  IMF Headquarters, Washington, DC

 Draft Agenda

March 23, 2009 

      9:15-9:30 am         Opening Remarks by Chair

      9:30-11:15 am       Impact and Implications of Financial Crisis

                                     Chair:                Adib Mayaleh, Governor, Central Bank of Syria 

                                     Presenters:        Petya Koeva Brooks, Deputy Chief, World Economic Studies Division, IMF

                                                             Justin Lin, Chief Economist, World Bank

                                                             Jomo Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General, UN-DESA and Research Coordinator, G24 Secretariat

                                                             Ugo Panizza, Chief Debt and Finance Analyses Unit, DDF, UNCTAD

                                    Open Discussion

      11:15-11:30 am            Coffee Break

      11:30-12:45 pm      IMF Reform

                                      Chair:                Adib Mayaleh, Governor, Central Bank of Syria

                                      Presenter:          Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute and Center for Global Development

                                      Discussant:        Michael Sachs, Chief Director International Finance & Development, National Treasury of South Africa

                                      Open Discussion

      1:00-2:00 pm                Lunch

      2:00-3:30 pm          Reform of International Monetary System

        Chair:                Paulo Nogueira-Batista, Executive Director, IMF

 

        Presenter:         José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, Columbia University and Co-Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue

                                      Open Discussion

      3:30-3:45 pm                Coffee Break

      3:45-5:00 pm           World Bank Reform

                                       Chair:                Rogério Studart, Executive Director, World Bank

                                       Presenter:         Amar Bhattacharya, Director, G24 Secretariat

                                       Discussant:        Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development

                                       Open Discussion

March 24, 2009            

      2:00 pm                     HQ2 Meeting Hall 01A-830 drafting session for G24 members

Background Papers:          

The Contemporary Reform of Global Financial Governance: Implications of and Lessons from the Past by Eric Helleiner

Swimming Against the Tide: How Developing Countries Are Coping with the Global Crisis, World Bank

The Global Economic Crisis: Systemic Failures and Multilateral Remedies, UNCTAD (full report) (Executive Summary)

The Instability and Inequities of the Global Reserve System by José Antonio Ocampo

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