WASHINGTON: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar will lead Pakistan delegation at the Spring IMF-World Bank meetings and will also discuss Pakistan-US cooperation with top American officials at the USAID, and Treasury and State departments.
The finance minister will also speak at Washington’s Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and shed light on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif government’s policy to bolster economic growth and overcome the challenges in the years ahead.
The IMF-World Bank spring meetings are likely to feature discussions of Greece’s efforts to ease the terms of its bailout, and crushing debt in the Ukraine and Brazil. Two seminars on financial regulation and monetary policy will spotlight former Federal Reserve chiefs Paul Volcker and Ben Bernanke. Others will tackle a dizzying array of global dilemmas, including cheap oil, the future of food, the world’s aging population and the Ebola crisis – the last featuring UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
