ILO-IMF Financing social protection in times of fiscal consolidation
World Bank/IMF 2018 Spring Meetings in Washington.
Side event "Financing Universal Social Protection to promote Inclusive Development and Reduce Inequality"
Date
Speakers
18 April 2018
Isabel Ortiz, Director of Social Protection, ILO: Financing universal social protection to promote inclusive development and reduce inequality
David Coady, Chief of the Expenditure Policy Division at the Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
Stephen Kidd, Senior Social Protection Specialist, Development Pathways: Inclusive lifecycle social protection: why is it opposed by the World Bank and IMF?
Carolina Dantas, Social Protection Officer, Trade Union Confederation of the Americas: How have IMF and World Bank policies impacted the development of social protection systems in Latin America
Anush Bezhanyan, Practice Manager, Social Protection and Labour, World Bank Group
Moderator
Peter Bakvis, Director ITUC/Global Unions – Washington Office, International Trade Union Confederation
World Bank/IMF 2015 Annual Meetings. Side event: Social protection, inequality and growth in times of fiscal consolidation
Date
Opening
Panellists
8 October 2015
Jose Manuel Salazar, ILO Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
José Antonio Ocampo, Professor Columbia Univ. former Minister of Finance (presentation)
Jonathan D. Ostry, Deputy Director of the Research Department, IMF (presentation)
Peter Bakvis, Director DC ITUC/Global Unions
Isabel Ortiz, Director, Social Protection Department, ILO - Launch of The Decade of Adjustment: A Review of Austerity Trends 2010-2020 in 187 Countries, published by ILO, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University and the South Centre (presentation)