2007 World Bank-IMF spring meetings schedule (Bretton Woods Project)

2007 World Bank-IMF spring meetings schedule

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Members of staff of the Bank and Fund, board members, development and finance ministers are gathered in Washington 13-15 April.

Official meetings

13 April: Meeting of G24 group of developing countries
14 April: International Monetary and Financial Committee meeting
Tentative agenda: Global economic outlook; surveillance mandate; quota reform; the role of the IMF in middle-income countries (Reserve Augmentation Line/contingency financing); the role of the IMF in low-income countries (Malan report on Bank-Fund collaboration); progress reports on the activities of the IEO
15 April: Development Committee meeting
Tentative agenda: Africa Action Plan; Global Monitoring Report (gender and fragile states); voice; clean energy

World Bank civil society policy dialogues

12 April: IMF board accountability; WB health strategy; IFC performance standards
13 April: CAO overview; IMF in Africa; MIGA safeguard policies; country-based development model; fiscal space and infrastructure finance; training and capacity building; debt sustainability; DRC forestry and mining; IEO on IMF and aid to Sub-Saharan Africa; IDA 15
14 April: IMF governance; Chad-Cam pipeline; World Bank and climate change; UBUNTU campaign for Bretton Woods reform; IMF wage bill ceilings and education
16 April: WDR 08 Agriculture; education in fragile states; country systems; anti-corruption standards

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For full details of events, contact information for groups in Washington for the meetings, and links to documents released by civil society, visit IFIwatchnet.