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  "title": "Press Release: IMF and World Bank Group Launch Website for 2009 Annual Meetings in Istanbul",
  "publication": "IMF News, July 6, 2009",
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  "summary": "Press Release No. 09/252",
  "publishDate": "2009-07-06",
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      "heading": "Event overview",
      "content": "- Press Release No. 09/252\n- Date: July 6, 2009\n- Annual Meetings location and dates: Istanbul, Turkey, during October 6-7, 2009\n- Historical note: This is the second time Turkey will be hosting the Annual Meetings—the first time was in 1955, also in Istanbul—making Turkey the only country to host the Annual Meetings twice.\n- Membership: The IMF and the World Bank Group have 186 member countries."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Website and access",
      "content": "- Newly-designed website launched for the 2009 Annual Meetings, accessible at www.fundbankmeetings.org or www.bankfundmeetings.org.\n- Website features:\n  - Online press accreditation\n  - CSO accreditation\n  - Schedule of events\n  - Program of Seminars\n  - Access to documents, speeches, transcripts, photographs, and video that will be released during the Meetings\n  - Hyperlink to the host government of Turkey website: http://www.istanbul2009turkey.org"
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      "heading": "Meeting program and sequence of events",
      "content": "- Main plenary session: October 6-7, 2009\n- Preceding events starting on September 30, including:\n  - Launch of the World Economic Outlook\n  - Launch of the Global Financial Stability Report\n  - Program of Seminars\n  - Group of 24 meeting\n  - Meetings of policy-steering bodies:\n    - IMF’s International Monetary and Financial Committee\n    - World Bank’s Development Committee"
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      "heading": "Purpose and anticipated focus",
      "content": "- Institutional purpose: At the Annual Meetings, the Board of Governors of the IMF and the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group meet to discuss the work of their respective institutions.\n- Participants: Central bankers, ministers of finance and development, civil society organizations, private sector executives and academics.\n- Expected discussion topics given the current economic crisis:\n  - Outlook for the global economy\n  - Developments in financial markets\n  - Impact of the crisis on countries, including low-income countries\n  - Response of member countries and the international community to the crisis\n\nSource: Press Release No.09/252, IMF press release titled \"IMF and World Bank Group Launch Website for 2009 Annual Meetings in Istanbul,\" July 6, 2009.\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Republic of Türkiye and the IMF\n- Press Releases\n- PRESS CENTER\n- online press accreditation\n- https://www.imf.org/en/home\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2015/09/14/01/49/pr09252"
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    "Published: July 6, 2009",
    "Press Release No. 09/252",
    "Date: July 6, 2009",
    "Annual Meetings location and dates: Istanbul, Turkey, during October 6-7, 2009",
    "Historical note: This is the second time Turkey will be hosting the Annual Meetings—the first time was in 1955, also in Istanbul—making Turkey the only country to host the Annual Meetings twice.",
    "Membership: The IMF and the World Bank Group have 186 member countries.",
    "Newly-designed website launched for the 2009 Annual Meetings, accessible at www.fundbankmeetings.org or www.bankfundmeetings.org.",
    "Website features:",
    "Main plenary session: October 6-7, 2009",
    "Preceding events starting on September 30, including:",
    "Institutional purpose: At the Annual Meetings, the Board of Governors of the IMF and the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group meet to discuss the work of their respective institutions.",
    "Participants: Central bankers, ministers of finance and development, civil society organizations, private sector executives and academics.",
    "Expected discussion topics given the current economic crisis:",
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    "[online press accreditation](https://www-amsweb-ext.imf.org/press-ext/)",
    "[https://www.imf.org/en/home](https://www.imf.org/en/home)"
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