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Transcript - Governing Global Finance: The Role of Civil Society IMF Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops Economic forums are free of charge and open to the public; no registration is needed. The forums are accessed through the entrance to the IMF Center at 720 19th Street N.W., Washington D.C., a half block north of the IMF building's main entrance. For further information, please contact Simon Willson of the IMF's Public Affairs Division (telephone number: 202-623-7689, E-mail swillson@imf.org). |
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ECONOMIC FORUMS AND INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS
Governing Global Finance: The Role of Civil Society Thursday, April 5, 2001, 2:30 p.m.– 4:30 p.m. IMF Center Auditorium, Room R-710 International Monetary Fund 720 19th Street N.W., Washington D.C. Globalization is multifaceted, with many important dimensions -- economic and social, political and environmental, cultural and religious -- that affect everyone in some way. Its implications range from the trade and investment flows that interest economists, to changes that we see in our everyday lives. These trends have attracted considerable and increasing attention in civil society over the past decade, as witnessed particularly starkly last year on the streets of Washington and Prague. To help address and explain these developments, the Civil Society and Global Finance Project has brought together 20 leading civil society organizers, officials of multilateral institutions, and academic researchers to investigate the role of civil society in the governance of global finance. The project has sought to assess the fruits, unfulfilled potentials, and/or negative repercussions of civil society engagement with global finance to date; and to suggest steps to maximize the benefits and minimize the shortcomings of civil society involvement in global finance. The project participants have addressed these issues from diverse regional, professional, disciplinary, and ideological perspectives. Their papers will be published as a book in 2001. The project is intended to make relevant policy circles aware of the latest thinking on this subject, offer proposals to take forward civil society involvement in global financial governance, and provide the project with feedback that can be incorporated into the final book manuscript. The IMF is hosting a presentation of the Civil Society and Global Finance Project in its public Economic Forum series. The panelists are: Nancy Birdsall, Director of Economics Programs, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington; former Executive Vice President, InterAmerican Development Bank . Kamal Malhotra, Senior Civil Society Advisor, Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Program, New York. Nodari Simonia, Director, Institute of International Relations and World Economy (IMEMO) and Presidium Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Alison Van Rooy, Senior Fellow, North-South Institute, Ottawa. Albrecht Schnabel, Peace and Governance Program, United Nations University. Jan Aart Scholte, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick. The forum will be moderated by Thomas Dawson, Director, External Relations Department, IMF. |