INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND WORLD BANK GROUP 2004 Spring Meetings APRIL 24–25, 2004 WASHINGTON, D.C. |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Press Credentials Pick-Up Opens | World Bank's H Building Auditorium (G Street entrance) | |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Technicians Set-Up Arrangements need to be made in advance with the IMF's Media Relations Division (media@imf.org). |
IMF Headquarters (red and blue levels) | |
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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 (embargoed until 11:00 a.m.) Webcast |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Press Briefing: IMF Acting Managing Director Anne O. Krueger, Transcript Webcast |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Press Briefing: World Bank Group President James D. Wolfensohn, Transcript Webcast |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
| 4:00 p.m. | Press Briefing: Global Monitoring Report; World Bank Managing Director Shengman Zhang; IMF Policy Development and Review Department Assistant Director Jim Boughton and Lead Author Zia Qureshi, Transcript Webcast |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Group of 24 Ministers Communiqué |
Meeting Hall | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Press Briefing: World Development Indicators (WDI); World Bank Chief Economist François Bourguignon, Transcript Webcast The WDI 2004 will be available to the press on the World Bank's Online Media Briefing Center at http://media.worldbank.org approximately approximately two days before the launch. The OMBC is a password-protected web site for journalists only. |
Main Press Briefing Room, IMF Headquarters, Room B-702 | |
| 11:30 a.m. | IMF Press Briefing on Latin America, Anoop Singh
Director, Western Hemisphere Department, Transcript Webcast |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
| 2:30 p.m. | Press Briefing: Chair of the Group of 24 Ministers, Finance Minister Conrad Enill of Trinidad and Tobago, Transcript Webcast |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
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| 11:00 a.m. | Press Briefing: African Finance Ministers, Transcript Webcast | Main Press Briefing Room, IMF Headquarters, Room B-702 | |
| 11:45 a.m. | European Union Press Conference: Ecofin Presidency, Mr. Charlie McCreevy; European Central Bank's President, Mr. Jean-Claude Trichet; European Commission's Director General, Mr. Klaus Regling | IMF Headquarters, Room B-610 | |
| 12:15 p.m. |
International Monetary and Financial Committee of the Board of Governors, Communiqué |
Meeting Hall | |
| 12:30 p.m. | IMF Press Briefing: "Next Step in European Integration: Adopting the Euro in Central Europe" by Susan Schadler, Deputy Director of the European Department, Transcript Webcast | Main Press Briefing Room, IMF Headquarters, Room B-702 | |
| 2:00 p.m. | World Bank Press Briefing on Latin America, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean David de Ferranti and WB Latin America and the Caribbean Chief Economist Guillermo Perry, Transcript | IMF Headquarters, Room B-610 | |
| 6:05 p.m. | Press Briefing: IMFC Chairman Gordon Brown and IMF Acting Managing Director Anne O. Krueger, Transcript Webcast Communiqué |
Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters | |
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| 8:00 a.m. | World Bank Press Conference: Education For All World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn, Netherlands Development Minister Agnes van Ardenne,Canadian Minister for International Cooperation Aileen Carroll; UK International Development Secretary Hillary Benn; Niger Finance Minister Ali Lamine Zene; French Development Minister Xavier Darcos; Chairman of the Global Campaign for Education Kailash Satyarthi; and Co-Chair of EFA FTI Hilde Johnson. Transcript Webcast | IMF Headquarters, Room R-710 | |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Development Committee Communiqué |
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| 11:00 a.m. | IMF Press Briefing: "Recent Economic Developments and Prospects in Africa" by Abdoulaye Bio Tchane, Director of the African Department, Webcast | Main Press Briefing Room, IMF Headquarters, Room B-702 | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Development Committee Press briefing: DC Chairperson Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn, and IMF Deputy Managing Director Agustín Carstens, Transcript Webcast | Main Press Briefing Room, IMF Headquarters, Room B-702 | |
| TBA | Press Room Closes | ||
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