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From depressing crude oil prices in the last 18 months, to devaluation of the Chinese Yuan, to the challenges of global warming, climate change and rebating migrant crisis, the world is definitely in need of economic salvation.
The World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), institutions defining global economic policies, will be meeting in Washington DC to decide the fate of our planet.
Who are you? An analyst, economic adviser, lawmaker, national policy maker, activist or just a concerned citizen of the world who is interested in what becomes of global economy?
Whoever you are, TheCable got you covered. Tijani Mayowa is in Washington DC to deliver straight to you the events, the policy prescriptions, the discoveries, and the lessons – just as they unfold.
Of course, our focus would be on Africa with Nigeria at the centre stage.
HERE ARE KEY EVENTS WE WILL BE MONITORING CLOSELY:
APRIL 13
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, would be speaking on “Low-Income Developing Countries: Conference on Sustainable Economic Development in a Challenging Global Environment”.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance and distinguished visiting fellow, Centre for Global Development, will join a panel of World Bank researchers and Harvard professors to discuss “inequality, growth and resilience”.
In the same vein, Michelle Obama, first lady of the US, will be delivering a special address on learning for girls, with opening remarks from Jim Yong Kim, WBG president.
Akinwumi Adesina, president of African Development Bank, will also join a group of distinguished professionals to discuss “Future of Food: Why Healthy, Safe and Sustainable Food is a Basic Necessity”.
APRIL 14
The world is working towards sustainable development, necessitating a session on “Financial Solutions for Today’s Development Challenges” with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in view.
Nigeria’s Arunma Oteh, vice president and treasurer of the World Bank Group, joins other technocrats in dissecting the way to go at such challenging times.
APRIL 15
On Friday, Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria’s minister of finance, will join her counterpart from Rwanda, Claver Gatete, in a discussion on “Sub-Saharan Africa: Just a Rough Patch?”.
Mitsuhiro Furusawa, deputy managing director, IMF and Akinwumi Adesina, will also be on the panel for the discourse.
April 16
Global Infrastructure Forum 2016 will be held on Saturday, with key panellists including Akinwumi Adesina of AfDB, Ahmad Mohamed Ali, president of the Islamic Development Bank; Jim Yong Kim and Ban Ki-Moon, secretary-general of the United Nations.
On the same day, there will be a meeting of African finance ministers, on the state of the continent.
April 17
If sustainable development will achieve the big dreams set by the UN, there has to be “a new vision for financing development”.
Bill Gates, the world’s richest man and co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will join Justine Greening, secretary of state for international development in the UK; Jim Yong Kim, and a host of others in coursing a path forward.
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Nice topics with notable Nigerians contributing to the thematic focus. The blah blah blah is Ok but let charity begin at home. Come and replicate the theme here at home in the Nigerian context.