The global economic system has delivered remarkable successes since the last time Tokyo hosted the Annual Meetings in 1964, with rising living standards and millions of people pulled out of poverty globally, thanks to rapid growth in trade and more integrated financial markets. But globalization is not without its limit. To mitigate economic anxieties and continue to harness the benefits of globalization, stronger cooperation among countries must successfully be brought to bear on some pressing issues of our time: tackling high unemployment in advanced countries; transforming growth models in fast-growing economies; ensuring that rapid change does not leave the vulnerable behind; building a resilient global financial architecture; and dealing with climate change, among others. Panelists will be asked to address how to bolster and reform the global economic system to tackle these problems and ensure that all countries and people prosper together.

Key questions to be addressed will include:

• How to bolster and reform the global economic system to tackle these problems?
• How to ensure that all countries and people prosper together?