WORLD BANK GROUP AND INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND  2005 Spring Meetings APRIL 16–17, 2005 WASHINGTON, D.C. |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Press Credentials Pick-Up Opens | World Bank's Main Complex (19th Street entrance) | |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Technicians Set-Up Arrangements must be made in advance with the IMF's Media Relations Division (media@imf.org). |
IMF Headquarters (red and blue levels) | |
| noon | The Spring 2005 World Economic Outlook will be available to the press on the IMF's Media Briefing Center at http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/imfmbc/index.asp under embargo for release at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 13. The Media Briefing Center is a password-protected web site for journalists only.. | ||
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| 8:00 a.m. | Press Room Opens | IMF Headquarters (red and blue levels) | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Press Briefing: World Economic Outlook (WEO); IMF Economic Counsellor and Research Department Director Raghuram Rajan Webcast Transcript |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Press Briefing: World Bank Group President James D. Wolfensohn
Webcast (Media Player) (Real Player) Transcript |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters |
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| 10:30 a.m. | Press Briefing: IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato Webcast Transcript |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Press Briefing: Regional Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa by Abdoulaye Bio Tchané, Director, African Department, IMF; Anupam Basu, Deputy Director, African Department, IMF; Benedicte Christensen, Deputy Director, African Department, IMF; Siddharth Tiwari, Deputy Director, IMF Webcast Transcript |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Group of 24 Ministers Meeting Photo Pool (please assemble 15 minutes prior to the event starting time in the Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters) Communiqué |
Meeting Hall |
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| 10:30 a.m. | Latin American Press Briefing by Anoop Singh, Director, Western Hemisphere Department (WHD); Jose Fajgenbaum, Deputy Director, WHD; Charles Collyns, Deputy Director, WHD; Caroline Atkinson, Deputy Director, WHD; Markus Rodlauer, Senior Advisor, WHD; Christopher Towe, Senior Advisor, WHD Webcast Transcript |
IMF Auditorium, R-710 |
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| 2:30 p.m. |
Press Briefing by G-24 Chairman Mr. Paul Toungui, Minister of State, Finance, Economy, Budget and Privatization, Gabon; First Vice Chair: Mr. Jeremias Paul, World Bank Alternate Executive for the Philippines; Mr. José Costa, Senior Advisor, OEDAG; Chairman of the Deputies: Mr. Philibert Andzembe, Director for Gabon, Banque des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale; Mr. Ariel Buira, Director of the G-24 Secretariat Webcast Transcript Communiqué |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
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| 8:00 p.m. |
Registration moves to IFC Building | IFC Building (2121 Pennsylvania Ave.) |
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| 12:00 p.m. |
International Monetary and Financial Committee Meeting Photo Pool (please assemble 15 minutes prior to the event starting time in the Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters) Statements Communiqué |
Meeting Hall |
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| 3:00 p.m. | Press Briefing: World Bank briefing on Shared Economic Growth, HIV/AIDS and Women's Health in Africa. John Page, World Bank Africa region Chief Economist; Keith Hansen, Manger of the World Bank's Multi-country HIV/AIDS Program for Africa; and Elizabeth Lule, Advisor Health, Nutrition and Population Team.
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| 5;00 p.m. | Press Briefing: IMFC Chairman Gordon Brown and IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato Webcast Transcript |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
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| 8:15 a.m. |
Press Briefing: Education Fast Track Initiative; James D. Wolfensohn, World Bank President; Xavier Darcos, Minister of Cooperation and Development, France; Hilde Johnson, Minister of Development, Norway; Carin Jämtin, Minister of International Development, Sweden; Suma Chakrabarti, Permanent Secretary, DFID; Aileen Carroll, Minister of International Cooperation, Canada; and Rasheda Chowdhury, Executive Director, Campe (Bangladesh). (Journalists wishing to attend should contact Phil Hay at phay@worldbank.org.) Transcript |
World Bank Headquarters |
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| 9:00 a.m. |
Development Committee Session Photo Pool (please assemble 15 minutes prior to the event starting time in the Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters) |
Preston Auditorium, World Bank Headquarters |
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| 10:00 a.m. |
Press Briefing: World Bank Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Developments and Prospects 2005; World Bank Vice President for the MENA region Christiaan Poortman, MENA Chief Economist Mustapha Nabli, and Iraq Country Director Joseph Saba. Transcript |
Room B-610, IMF Headquarters | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Press Briefing: African Finance Ministers by Hon. Marcelino Ewono Edu, Equatorial Guinea; Hon. Abdoulaye Diop, Minister of Finance for Senegal.; Hon. Joseph Bandabla Dauda, Sierra Leone; Hon. Timothy T. Thahane, Lesotho Webcast |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
| 1:00 p.m. | Press Briefing: World Development Indicators (WDI); World Bank Chief Economist François Bourguignon Webcast: Media Player Real Player |
Main Press Briefing Room, IMF Headquarters, Room B-702 | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Development Committee Press Briefing: DC Chairman Trevor Manuel, World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn, and IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato Webcast Transcript | Main Press Briefing Room, IMF Headquarters, Room B-702 | |
| TBA | Press Room Closes | ||
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