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November 17, 2020
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8:00 a.m.
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Welcoming Remarks
Louis Marc Ducharme,
Chief Statistician and Data Officer, and Director,
Statistics Department, IMF
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8:05 a.m.
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Introduction to the Forum
Tao Zhang,
Deputy Managing Director, IMF
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Session 1: The Economics of a Pandemic: What are
the Data Needs?
Historically, crises have shown the importance of data
that allow detection of vulnerabilities, assessment of
their impact, and implementation of timely and targeted
corrective measures. This time, the COVID-19 pandemic
has abruptly transformed the economic environment and
created unprecedented needs for more timely and
granular data, including on socio-economic disruptions
linked to the pandemic. This session will consider some
emerging data needs for understanding economic and
financial developments and vulnerabilities exposed by
the pandemic and present examples of new approaches to
meeting those data needs.
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8:15 a.m.
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Introduction by the Chair, Louis Marc Ducharme, Chief Statistician and Data Officer, and Director, Statistics Department, IMF
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8:20 a.m.
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Juan Daniel Oviedo,
Colombia’s National Administrative Department of Statistics
(DANE), DANE’s- Block-by-block Vulnerability Index
Paper | Presentation
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8:35 a.m.
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Silvia Arini
and Rendra Putra, Statistics Indonesia,
Evidence of People's Mobility Data towards Economic
Activities
Paper | Presentation
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8:50 a.m.
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Questions from the audience
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9:05 a.m.
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Break
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9:15 a.m.
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Bruno Tissot
and Barend De Beer, Bank for International
Settlements, Irving Fisher Committee and South African
Reserve Bank,
Implications of COVID-19 for Official Statistics: A
Central Banking Perspective
Paper | Presentation
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9:30 a.m.
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Giovanni Veronese,
Claudia Biancotti, Alfonso Rosolia, Robert Kirchner, and Francois Mouriaux, Banca d’Italia,
Deutsche Bundesbank and Banque de France, COVID-19 and Official Statistics: A Wakeup Call?
Paper | Presentation
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9:45 a.m.
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Questions from the audience
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November 18, 2020
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Session 2: Weathering the Storm: Statistics at the
Time of a Pandemic
National statistical offices have previously confronted
pandemics (e.g., SARS in 2002 and N1H1 in 2009) and
natural disasters that disrupted statistical operations
and challenged them to respond to new data needs.
However, the disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic are
more profound and will likely be longer lasting. At the
same time, the pandemic has created opportunities for
innovation. How have data compilers overcome the
challenges? This session will discuss innovative
surveys and techniques for producing and communicating
timely and relevant statistics during the pandemic.
Watch Video (Part 1: 8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.)
Watch Video (Part 2: 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.)
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8:00 a.m.
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Introduction by the Chair, Ceda Ogada,
Secretary of the IMF
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8:05 a.m.
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Craig McLaren,
The United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics,
The United Kingdom experience: The Business Impact of
Coronavirus Survey
Paper | Presentation
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8:20 a.m.
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Ibrahima Tall, Senegal’s National Agency of Statistics and Demography,
Innovative Collection Methods During the COVID-19
Period
Paper | Presentation
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8:35 a.m.
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Questions from the audience
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8:50 a.m.
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Break
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9:00 a.m.
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Susana Cordeiro Guerra,
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics,
Sustaining and Modernizing Statistical Production
during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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9:15 a.m.
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Michael Levi
and Emily Liddel, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics,
Communicating the Accuracy and Relevance of Statistical
Data during a Pandemic: A practitioners’ Report
Paper | Presentation
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9:30 a.m.
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Questions from the audience
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9:45 a.m.
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Break
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Special Event: Celebrating the Third World
Statistics Day
The World Statistics Day is celebrated on October 20
every five years. Created by the United Nations
Statistical Commission, it was first celebrated on
October 20, 2010.
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10:00 a.m.
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Panel Discussion:
Celebrating Statistics: The Science and the Art of
Making Numbers Talk
Moderator: Louis Marc Ducharme, Chief Statistician and Data Officer, and Director,
Statistics Department, IMF
Panelists:
Ola Awad, President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Rashad Cassim, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB);
Chair of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank
Statistics
Henry Curr, Journalist, lead writer on economics, The Economist
Susana Cordeiro Guerra, President of the Brazilian Institute of
Geography and Statistics
Tim Harford, Author “How to Make the World Add Up” & FT Senior Columnist
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11:15 a.m.
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Questions from the audience
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November 19, 2020
Watch Video (Part 1: 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.)
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Session 3: How Well Statistics are Weathering the
Pandemic? Some Examples
This session will provide examples of measuring some
key macroeconomic implications of COVID-19 and
supplemental indicators that fill gaps in the data
needed in light of the pandemic
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8:30 a.m.
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Introduction by the Chair, Kalpana Kochhar, Director of the Human Resources Department, IMF
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8:35 a.m.
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Alberto Cavallo, Harvard Business School and NBER, Inflation with COVID-19 Consumption Baskets
Paper | Presentation
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8:50 a.m.
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Marshall Reinsdorf, IMF Statistics Department,
COVID-19 and the Weights of the CPI: Is Inflation
Underestimated?
Paper | Presentation
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9:05 a.m.
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Vivek Pandya
and Costa Lasiy, Adobe,
Tracking the Impact of COVID-19 on the Online Economy
in Real-Time
Paper | Presentation
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9:20 a.m.
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Questions from the audience
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9:35 a.m.
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Break
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| Special invited speaker |
| 9:45 a.m. |
Introduction by Louis Marc Ducharme, Chief Statistician and Data Officer, and Director, Statistics Department, IMF |
| Nouriel Roubini, New York University’s Stern School of Business, Pandemics: Financial Markets versus the Real Economy and the Need for New Data |
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Questions from the audience |
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Break |
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Session 4: Panel with Forum’s speakers on Q&A
This session will set up a panel with the speakers. It
will wrap up taking questions that have been put
forward before or during the Forum, either by emailing
them to
STAForum@imf.org, or through the chat function.
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10:45 a.m.
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Moderator: Gabriel Quirós-Romero, Deputy Director, Statistics Department, IMF
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12:15 p.m.
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Break
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Session 5: Keynote speech and one-on-one between Ian
Goldin and IMF Managing Director
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12:30 p.m.
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Moderator: Gerry Rice, Director of the Communications Department, IMF
Keynote Speech: Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalization
and Development, Oxford University,
Economics, Institutions, and Multilateralism: Lessons
from COVID-19
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1:00 p.m.
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One-on-one discussion
Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalization and Development, Oxford
University
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF
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1:45 p.m.
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Closure
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