Friday, Oct 25, 2024 | 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Location: HQ2-03B-768B Lecture Room
Session Abstract: Debt policies by the international financial institutions have attracted intense controversy over the past decades, exemplified most recently by the popular discontent expressed in most of the Global South countries following several rounds of austerity measures proposals. Situating the Global South financial crisis, the session will explore how to effectively solve the debt and fiscal conditionality crises in a way that will allow these countries to advance development goals.
• Moderator: Jason Rosario Braganza, Executive Director, Afrodad
• Panelist 1: Jane Nalunga, Executive Director, SEATINI
• Panelist 2: Eric LeCompte, Executive Director, Jubilee USA Network
• Panelist 3: Samantha Kanoyangwa, Coordinator, African Sovereign Debt Justice Network
• Panelist 4: Mark Flanagan, Deputy Director, Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, IMF J
oin Here: https://imf.zoom.us/j/94315177099?pwd=SBsrwZbSO71z5MpaC4HOEG416vAQGM.1
