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Monday, September 11
8:00 a.m. Registration Opens Singapore City Hall
Thursday, September 14
9:00 a.m. Civil Society Forum opens
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
9:00 a.m. Civil Society Forum - Introductory Briefing for CSOs attending the 2006 Annual Meetings
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
10:00 a.m. Press Briefing: World Economic Outlook (WEO); IMF Economic Counsellor and Research Department Director Raghuram Rajan
Webcast  |  Transcript
Suntec Singapore
11:00 a.m. Civil Society Forum - Civil Society Accountability in Disaster Relief: Lessons from the Trenches CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
1:30 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Social Enterprises and Social Development: The Opportunities and the Challenges
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
3:15 p.m. Civil Society Forum - The Role of the International Monetary Fund in Low-Income Countries
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
4:45 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Low-Income Countries in Asia and the Role of the IMF
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
6:30 p.m. Civil Society Forum - CSO Planning Meeting for the Town Hall
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
Friday, September 15
8:00 a.m. Civil Society Forum - Breakfast meeting for CSO representatives with Homi Kharas, World Bank Chief Economist for East Asia Region and other regional senior staff to discuss Bank policies and work in the region.
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
9:00 a.m. Press Briefing: IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato
Webcast  |  Transcript
Suntec Singapore
10:30 a.m. Press Briefing: World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz
Webcast  |  Transcript
Suntec Singapore
12:30 p.m. Civil Society Organization Townhall Meeting; Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato, and World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz
Webcast  |  Transcript
Suntec Singapore
3:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Promoting Compliance and Conflict Resolution: Experiences of World Bank Group Inspection Panel (IP) and Compliance Adviser Ombudsman (CAO)
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
5:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - "Poor Women’s Interventions in Global Trade and Commerce – Issues and Implications"
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
Saturday, September 16
9:00 a.m. Annual Meetings Program of Seminars Pan Pacific Hotel
9:00 a.m. Group of 24 Ministers Meeting
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Suntec Singapore
12:00 noon Press Briefing: World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation; World Bank Chief Economist François Bourguignon and WDR director Emmanuel Jimenez
Webcast
Suntec Singapore
3:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Promises and Perils of Regional Trade Agreements in Asia
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
3:45 p.m. Press Briefing: Chair of the Group of 24 Ministers
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Suntec Singapore
4:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Panel Discussion and Launch: "Raising the Governance Bar in the Forest Sector: How the fight against illegal logging is benefiting Africa" and Launch of the G8 Illegal Logging Dialogue
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
4:15 p.m. Civil Society Forum - IMF: Rising Inequality in Asia
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
Sunday, September 17
8:30 a.m. Annual Meetings Program of Seminars Pan Pacific Hotel
8:30 a.m. Civil Society Forum - Breakfast meeting for CSO representatives with Katherine Sierra, Vice President, World Bank Sustainable Development Network and other senior staff to discuss Bank policies and work in sustainable development and infrastructure.
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
9:15 a.m. Civil Society Forum - "The Future of IFI Policies in Asia"
NTUC-Centre
9:30 a.m. Lithuania World Bank 'Graduation' Ceremony - Zigmantas Balcytis, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania; Shigeo Katsu, World Bank Vice President for the Europe and Central Asia Region; Svein Aass, Executive Director representing Lithuania at the World Bank
Suntec Singapore
10:00 a.m. International Monetary and Financial Committee Suntec Singapore
11:00 a.m. Press Briefing: African Finance Ministers
Webcast
Suntec Singapore
1:30 p.m. Civil Society Forum - World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
2:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Labor Standards in World Bank Operations
NTUC-Centre
3:00 p.m. Estonia World Bank 'Graduation' Ceremony - Aivar Soerd, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Estonia; Shigeo Katsu, World Bank Vice President for the Europe and Central Asia Region; Svein Aass, Executive Director representing Estonia at the World Bank Suntec Singapore
3:00 p.m. Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture on "Asian Monetary Integration: Will It Ever Happen?" by Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's Minister for Education and Second Minister for Finance Marina Mandarin Hotel
3:15 p.m. approx. Press Briefing: IMFC Chairman Gordon Brown and IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato
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Suntec Singapore
4:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Jobs for Disadvantaged Youth: Affirmative Action or Market Led Skills Development?
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
5:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - "An Investment Framework for Clean Energy and Development"
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
6:15 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Roundtable: Education for All
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
7:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Press conference: "NGO Report on the World Bank's Clean Energy Framework"
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
Monday, September 18
8:00 a.m. Civil Society Forum - Breakfast meeting for CSO representatives with Praful Patel, World Bank Vice President for South Asia Region and other regional senior staff to discuss Bank policies and work in the region.
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
8:30 a.m. Annual Meetings Program of Seminars Pan Pacific Hotel
9:00 a.m. Development Committee Suntec Singapore
10:00 a.m. Civil Society Forum - WDR 2007: "Citizen Youth" – Young People Exercising their Citizenship
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
11:00 a.m. Seminar by the African Governors Suntec Singapore
2:00 p.m. Small States Forum Suntec Singapore
2:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Governance and Social Accountability
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
3:00 p.m. Development Committee Press Briefing: Minister Alberto Carrasquilla, Chairman of the Development Committee; Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, and Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the IMF
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Suntec Singapore
Tuesday, September 19
8:30 a.m. Civil Society Forum - "Claiming Our Right to Know": Launch of the Transparency Charter for International Financial Institutions
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
9:00 a.m. Civil Society Forum - Treatment Access--Affordable Options for Low and Middle Income Countries
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
10:00 a.m. Annual Meetings Opening Plenary Session
Webcasts: Part 1 - Part 2
Suntec Singapore
11:30 a.m. Civil Society Forum - Press Conference: "Civil Society Advocates Respond to World Bank Anti-Corruption Strategy"
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
1:30 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Transparency and Poverty Reduction in a Resource Rich Developing Country: Lessons from Nigeria
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
2:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Presentation and discussion of World Bank Governance and Anticorruption Strategy with World Bank senior managers
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
3:00 p.m. Annual Meetings Plenary Session
Webcast
Suntec Singapore
4:30 p.m. Civil Society Forum - "Impossible Architecture" - Why the Financial Structure is Not Working for the Poor and How to Redesign it for Equity and Development
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
4:30 p.m. Civil Society Forum - Lessons Learned by the World Bank on Sustainable Development and Infrastructure
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
4:30 p.m. Civil Society Forum - The International Financial Institutions in Governance of Aid
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
6:15 p.m. Lecture by Anne Krueger (IMF First Deputy Managing Director, Sept. 2001- Aug. 2006) on "An Enduring Need: The Importance of Multilateralism in the 21st Century" Suntec Singapore
Wednesday, September 20
9:00 a.m. Civil Society Forum - Social Protection: Income Support to Older People
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
9:30 a.m. Annual Meetings Plenary Session and Closing Session
Webcast
Suntec Singapore
11:30 a.m. Civil Society Forum - Launch of "Odious Lending: Debt Relief as If Morality Mattered"
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
1:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum - "Discussion on the National Barriers to Sustainable Development Implementation in 15 Southern Countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America"
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
3:30 p.m. Civil Society Forum - The World Bank and the IMF after the Doha suspension: Quo vadis?
CSO Center, Suntec Singapore
6:00 p.m. Civil Society Forum closes CSO Center, Suntec Singapore