The Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) will host twenty high-level panels as part of the 2023 Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), scheduled in Marrakech from Oct. 9 to 15, a press release by the PCNS had announced.
This initiative, undertaken in collaboration with key partners, including the Emerging Markets Forum (EMF) and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC), demonstrates the Policy Center’s commitment to development financing reform and the restructuring of Bretton Woods institutions, through the lens of the New South.
The event covers four central themes, namely world economic outlook; development financing and reform of multilateral institutions; public debt; and resilience, particularly food security and the energy transition.
The panels bring together more than 130 international experts and economic and political decision-makers from more than 40 countries. Participants include Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics at Columbia University and the 2001 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics, Niale Kaba, Ivorian Minister of Planning and Development, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO); Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Minister of Environment, Sustainable Development, and the Congo Basin in the Republic of Congo, Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Indermit Gill, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics at the World Bank Group, and N.K Singh, Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission of India and Co-Chair of the Independent Expert Group of the G20 India, among others.
PCNS is a Moroccan think tank dedicated to the improvement of domestic and African economic and social public policies. It hosts a series of gatherings of different formats and scales throughout the year.