Africa-Press – Angola. Delegations from Angola, Nigeria, and South Africa will meet on Monday in Washington, United States of America, with the World Bank Executive Director, Zainab S. Ahmed, as part of the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings.
The Angolan delegation, headed by Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa, will also participate in the G20 Representatives Meeting on Monday and will meet with the Vice President of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank Group.
For the morning, according to the work agenda, Angola is scheduled to participate in a Forum of Focal Points on the Human Capital Project, in which the Secretary of State for Planning, Luís Epalanga, will speak, followed by a bilateral meeting with the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund and another with the Executive Director of this multilateral organization, Adriano Ubisse.
In the afternoon, the Angolan mission will initially be engaged in a parallel event focused on “Perspectives on Pathways to Job Creation, Digital and Financial Inclusion” and a bilateral meeting with Crane Currency, one of the largest and oldest global providers of banknote solutions.
At the end of the first day, the agenda includes bilateral meetings with the director of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Makhtar Diop, with the Regional Director for Africa of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Ahunna Eziakonwa-Onochie, and, finally, participation in a side event on “Transport Corridors as Engines of Competitiveness and Regional Integration.
The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WB) begin, in Washington D.C., United States of America (USA), with the participation of 191 countries, including Angola.
Under the motto “Building prosperity through policies”, the event will take place under the “spectre” of the war in the Middle East – which involves the USA and Israel against Iran – whose continuation threatens to worsen inflation and slow down global economic growth, harming emerging and more developed countries.
The Spring Meetings of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), also known as the meeting of the Bretton Woods institutions, represent a privileged space for discussion on the formulation of economic policies and analyzes global economic perspectives.
They also debate issues on poverty eradication and economic development, with the participation of heads of central banks, ministers of finance and development, parliamentarians, private sector executives, representatives of civil society and academics.
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