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The IMF and World Bank meet each autumn in what is officially known as the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group and each spring in the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. Names of the two groups are alternated each year so a different one has top billing.
The first four conferences in the 19th century focused on matters of coinage and the markets for gold and silver. After World War I, the scope of the conferences was expanded to matters of financial stability, then trade and economics more broadly; the two iterations in 1927 and 1933 were branded World Economic Conference.
Part of the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank [39] United States: Washington, D.C. October: Continuation of the meeting mentioned above [40] [41] 2014 Australia: Sydney: February United States: Washington, D.C. April [42] Australia: Cairns: September [42] 2015 Turkey: Istanbul: 9–10 February [43] 2016 China: Hangzhou: July [44] [45 ...
This is a subcategory of Category:Economic globalization containing articles about global economic organizations and conferences. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 191 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
Mount Washington Hotel. The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate what would be the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II.
Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre is the main venue of the 2006 IMF/World Bank annual meetings. Singapore 2006 was a group of several concurrent events that were held in Singapore in support of the 61st Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.
F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos in January 1992. Henry Kissinger with former USSR leaders at the WEF Annual Meeting 1992 Børge Brende, managing director and current president of the World Economic Forum, at the opening press conference in 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa