IMF and India Host Regional Conference: Advancing Asia: Investing for the Future
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Government of India will co-host a high-level conference in New Delhi on March 11-13, 2016, to take stock of Asia’s strong economic performance, its increased resilience to shocks, and the region’s ongoing economic policy challenges.
Advancing Asia: Investing for the Future will bring together senior officials, corporate executives, academics, and civil society representatives from more than 30 countries spanning Asia and the Pacific.
According to IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. “As Asia’s advanced, emerging market and developing economies move to the next stage of success, they face the key challenge of how to maintain and enhance the region’s high growth record while boosting jobs, reducing inequality, accelerating infrastructure and human capital development and implementing other growth-enhancing reforms.”
Key topics to be discussed at the conference will include the most effective drivers of growth; income inequality, demographic change, and gender; infrastructure investment; climate change; managing capital flows; and financial inclusion.
Prime Minister Modi and Mme.Lagarde will be among the conference’s keynote speakers. Other official sector participants will include Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of India; Takehiko Nakao, President of the Asian Development Bank; Bambang Brodjonegoro, Minister of Finance of Indonesia; and Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia.
Attendance will be by invitation. The proceedings will be streamed live, and portions will be broadcast by Indian and regional television broadcasters.
For additional information about Advancing Asia please contact the conference Secretariat at apd-delhi-conference@imf.org.