XXXI Technical Group Meeting of the Group of Twenty‐Four

August 30, 2010

E‐ Building ‐ Gate 40

Meetings Room XXV, 1st Floor

Palais des Nations, UNCTAD

Geneva, Switzerland

Agenda

    August 30, 2010 

8:30 am          Registration

9:30 am          Opening Remarks by Chair

9:45 am          Role and Governance of the World Bank

    Chair:  Amar Bhattacharya, Director, G24 Secretariat

 

    Panelist:

Devesh Kapur, Director CASI, University of Pennsylvania

Rogério Studart, Alternate Executive Director, World Bank

Robert Wade, Professor, London School of Economics

Stephany Griffith Jones, Executive Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University

10:30 am           Open Discussion

11:15 am           Coffee Break

 11:30 pm          Delivering on IMF Quota Reform

                          Chair: Nkosana Mashiya, Chief Director International Finance and Development,

                                 National Treasury, South Africa

                          Presenter:

Amar Bhattacharya, Director, G24 Secretariat

                          Open Discussion

1:00 pm        Working Lunch

                          Heiner Flassbeck, Director, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD

2:00 pm        Open Discussion

2:45 pm         Climate Change and Development: What Next?

                       Chair: Rogério Studart, Alternate Executive Director, World Bank

                      Panelists:

Martin Khor, Executive Director, South Centre

Richard Kozul-Wright, Senior Economist, Economic Cooperation and Integration among Developing Countries Unit, UNCTAD

Michael T. Clark, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, UNCTAD

3:45 pm         Open Discussion

4:15 pm         Coffee Break

4:30 pm          Review of Upcoming International Development Agenda (Millennium Summit, G20, LDC Conference):

                       Implications for G24

                        Chair: Rogério Studart, Alternate Executive Director, World Bank

                         Panelists:

Jomo K. Sundaram, Assistant Secretary General, UNDESA and G24 Research Coordinator

Ugo Panizza, Chief of Debt and Finance Analysis Unit, DDF, UNCTAD

5:30 PM         Open Discussion

6:00 PM         Closing Session

                     Remarks by Chair

                      

 Background Materials:

Building on the Counter-cyclical Consensus: A Policy Agenda by Stephany Griffith-Jones & José Antonio Ocampo

Synthesis Paper: New World, New World Bank Group by World Bank Staff

CRED: A New Model of Climate and Development by Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth A. Stanton, & Ramón Bueno

Governance Challenges in Financing Green and Sustainable Energy Policies by Michael T. Clark

Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis and on Achieving the MDGs

Fiscal Policy and Global Growth by CP Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh

The Fallacy of Austerity-Based Fiscal Consolidation by Iyanatul Islam & Anis Chowdhury

Fiscal Consolidation, Growth and Employment: What Do we Know? by Iyanatul Islam & Anis Chowdhury

 

           

           

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