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Reviewing the World Bank-IMF Meetings: Challenges and Priorities

October 22, 202131:31

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Shihoko Goto, Meg Lundsager, and Suman Bery. They recap the recently concluded 2021 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund and discuss how these institutions are addressing concerns such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and debt sustainability for advanced and emerging economies around the world.

Guests

Meg Lundsager image

Meg Lundsager

Public Policy Fellow;
Former U.S. Executive Director and Alternate Executive Director, International Monetary Fund

Shihoko Goto

Shihoko Goto

Director, Indo-Pacific Program

Suman Bery

Suman Bery

Global Fellow;
Non-resident Fellow, Bruegel (Brussels)

Moderator

John Milewski

John Milewski

Director of Digital Programming; Moderator, Wilson Center NOW

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Indo-Pacific Program

The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. Read more

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