Provisional Agenda

Monday September 24^th, 2007

   09: 30 am    Opening Remarks

                            Chair:                Oscar Tangelson, Vice Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina

                            Vice-Chair:        Mawakani Samba, Deputy Director Central Bank of DRC

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

   10:00 am    Voice and Quota Reform in the IMF

                            Chair:                Oscar Tangelson, Vice Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina

                            Lead Speakers: Mohammed Dairi, IMF Alternate Executive Director

                                          Amar Bhattacharya, Director G24 Secretariat

                Open Discussion

     11:30 am                     Break

     11:45 am    World Bank Long Term Strategic Exercise: Implication for Developing countries

                            Chair:                 Mawakani Samba, Deputy Director Central Bank of DRC

                Lead Speakers: Amr Mohamed, World Bank Alternate Executive Director (tbc)

                                          Raj Pratap Singh, World Bank Senior Advisor to Executive Director (tbc)

                              Open Discussion

     01:00 pm                     Lunch

     02:30 pm    Aid for Trade

                 Chair:                Mawakani Samba, Deputy Governor Central Bank of DRC

                       Presenter:        Sam Laird, Professor of Economics, University of Nottingham

                 Discussants:     Toufiq Ali, Ambassador and former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh at the WTO.
                                                       wa Bilenga Tshishimbi, Senior Advisor to Governor Central Bank  of DRC

                  Open Discussion

     04:00 pm                     Break

     03:00 pm    Infrastructure Finance: An Overview of Issues

                              Chair:               Mawakani Samba, Deputy Governor Central Bank of DRC

                        Presenter:       Stephany Griffith-Jones, Economist, Institute of Development Studies

                  Discussants:    Manuel Montes, Chief Policy Analysis Unit, DESA

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

                              Open Discussion

Tuesday September 25^th, 2007

                     Chair:               Oscar Tangelson, Vice Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina

09:30 am    Other Key IMFC/DC Issues

	Financial Market Turbulence
	Reserve Augmentation Line
	Clean Energy and Climate Change
	Other Topics

Open Discussion

10:30 am    Priorities for Research Program

                    Lead Speaker: Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Research Coordinator, G24

                    Open Discussion 

11:30 pm    Closing Remarks by Chair

Background Paper

    Stephany Griffith-Jones

            Enhancing the Role of Regional Development Banks; The Time is Now

            Alternative Loan Guarantee Mechanisms and Project Finance for Infrastructure in Developing Countries

    Sam Laird

             Aid for Trade: Cool Aid or Kool-Aid?

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