Managing Volatility in Low-Income Countries

Tuesday April 27, 2010

April 27, 2010

Managing Volatility in Low-Income Countries

 

The IMF and the International Growth Centre (with hubs in LSE and Oxford University) conference will examine policy options to mitigate and manage risks associated with economic volatility and crises in low-income countries.

It will focus on three themes: (i) identifying shocks and their costs (9:30-10:30 am); (ii) building policy, institutional and reserve buffers (10:45 am -12:30 pm); and (iii) macroeconomic insurance (2-3:45pm), with a panel discussion concluding the event (4:00-5.30 pm).

        

 

Useful Information

  • When: Tuesday April 27, 2010
  • Where: International Monetary Fund
  • Address: 700 19th St., NW
    Washington DC, 20431
  • Room: HQ1-Events Hall (next to the Visitor's Centre)

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Managing Volatility in Low-Income Countries
 

Tuesday, April 27

8:45–9:15 am

***Breakfast***

9:15–9:30 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

John Lipsky (First Deputy Managing Director, IMF)

9:30–11:00 am

Session 1 Nature and Cost of Shocks

Chair

Hugh Bredenkamp (Deputy Director, Strategy, Policy, & Review Department, IMF)

Speaker 1 Norman Loayza (World Bank)

Speaker 2 Valerie Cerra (IMF)

Speakers 3 Nicola Spatafora/ Chris Papageorgiou (IMF)

11:00–11:15 am

***Coffee Break***

11:15–12:30 pm

Session 2 Self Insurance: Building Policy, Institutional, and Reserve Buffers

Chair

Antoinette M. Sayeh (Director, African Department, IMF)

Speaker 1 Paul Collier (Oxford)

Speaker 2 Rafael Portillo (IMF)

Speaker 3 Romain Ranciere (IMF/Paris School)

12:30–2:00 pm

***Lunch***

(By invitation, IMF PDR 1&2)

2:00–3:45 pm

Session 3 Macroeconomic Insurance and Hedging

Chair

Chris Towe (Deputy Director, Monetary & Capital Markets Department, IMF)

Speaker 1 Patrick Guillaumont (CERDI/ Université d'Auvergne)

Speaker 2 Eduardo Borensztein (IDB)

Speaker 3 Guillermo Perry (Centre for Global Development)

Discussant Alan Gelb (Centre for Global Development)

3:45–4:00 pm

*** Coffee break***

4:00–5:30 pm

Panel Discussion

Moderator

Reza Moghadam (Director, Strategy Policy & Review Department, IMF)

Panelists

Paul Collier (Oxford)

Francois Bourguignon (Paris School)

Benno Ndulu (Governor, Central Bank of Tanzania)

Louis Kasekende (Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Uganda)

Arvind Subramanian (Peterson/Centre for Global Development)