Events: Macro Research for Development: An IMF-DFID Collaboration

Macro Research for Development: An IMF-DFID Collaboration

Events

Last Updated: July 28, 2017

The IMF will host a conference on Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality on November 7, 2016 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC.
The conference will start with a high-level panel on how fiscal policies can contribute to gender equality and women’s advancement, and will feature Ms. Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director, Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women, and Ms. Laura Tyson, Professor of Business Administration and Economics at the University of California Berkeley. Mr. David Rothkopf, CEO and Editor, Foreign Policy Group, will moderate. In addition, the conference will offer panel discussions with academics and public officials working on relevant topics, as well as a keynote speech by Prof. Diane Elson, and the presentation of results from an IMF/UK DFID project on gender budgeting.

The IMF and DFID hosted a conference on January 30-31, 2014 at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC. The central theme of the conference was macroeconomic challenges for LICs, and topics included capital flows to LICs, distributional impacts of fiscal policy, monetary policy in resource rich economies, financial market structure and stability, economic diversification, and growth and economic uncertainty. Many of the researchers who presented were new to the field of macro LIC research. More information can be found on the conference website.

“Toward Better Infrastructure in Developing Countries”, Washington DC, 2016
IMF Spring Meetings 2014, Africa Rising: Building to the Future—Session on Scaling Up Public Investment: Opportunities and Challenges
CSAE Conference, March, 2014, Session on Political Economy
Paper presented:
- Bias and Accuracy in the IMF/WB Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries
DFID has a complementary project ‘Growth Research News' on micro-oriented research on investment-growth linkages.
The paper by Buffie et al. (2012) was presented in:
- the African Economic Conference 2012, held in Kigali (Rwanda) from October 30th to November 2nd
- the International Growth Centre workshop on fiscal and monetary policy organized by the London School of Economics and held in London (UK) on November 2–3, 2012.
A course on the Buffie et al. model and country applications was offered to Fund staff on February 25-26, in collaboration with the IMF Institute for Capacity Development.
Giovanni Melina will present "A model-based Debt Sustainability Framework for Resource-Rich Low-Income Countries" (jointly written with Andrew Berg, Shu-Chun S. Yang and Luis-Felipe Zanna) at the 2013 CSAE conference, Oxford.

CSAE Conference, March, 2014, Session on Fiscal Policy 1: Public Investment and Natural Resources
Papers Presented:
- Government Spending Effects in Low-Income Countries
- Natural Gas, Public Investment and Debt Sustainability in Mozambique
Giovanni Melina presents "Debt Sustainability, Investment, and Natural Resource in Developing Countries" (jointly written with Susan Yang and Felipe Zanna) at the 2013 CSAE conference, Oxford.
Program of Seminars: Good Management of Natural Resources: Lessons and Opportunities for Low-Income Countries.

Kinshasa Conference, a High Level Conference, was co-hosted by Democratic Republic of Congo and the IMF on March 21-11, 2012 on the Management of Natural Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Andrew Berg gave a presentation on ‘the Macroeconomic Management of External Resources' at the NBER Africa Conference, Zanzibar in December, 2012.
Good Management of Natural Resources: Lessons and Opportunities for Low-Income Countries, October 10, 2012.

CSAE Conference, March, 2014, Session on Institutions and Growth, Chaired by Filiz Unsal
Paper presented:
- Financial Deepening, Growth, and Inequality: A Structural Framework for Developing Countries.
Conference on Financial Deepening, Macro-Stability, and Growth in Developing Countries. Organized by Era Dabla-Norris (IMF), Kenichi Ueda (IMF/CFSP), and Martin Cihak (World Bank/IMF). September 24, 2012. IMF, Washington, DC.

15^th Annual Global Development Conference, Accra, Ghana
IMF Spring Meetings 2014, Africa Rising: Building to the Future—Session on Structural Transformation and Economic Diversification
CSAE Conference, March, 2014, Session on Structural Change
Paper presented:
- Benchmarking Structural Transformation Across the World.
Frontier Asia: Economic Transformation and Inclusive Growth, Bangkok, Thailand January 27-28, 2013.
Conference on Diversification and Structural Transformation for Growth and Stability in Low-Income Countries, February 21, 2013. IMF, Washington, DC.
IMF-JICA Conference (Bangkok, Thailand; January 27-28) "Frontier Asia: Economic Transformation and Inclusive Growth."

“Conference on Gender and Macroeconomics,” Washington DC, 2017
“Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality”, Washington DC, 2016
Europe Gender Summit, Berlin, November, 2015
Center of Excellence in Finance Gender Responsive Budgeting, Ljubljana, April 2016