IMF, World Bank to hold meets in ‘virtual format’
IMF and the World Bank hold their spring meetings in April and annual meetings in October, where finance ministers and central bank governors discuss global economic and financial developments. – EPA pic, March 4, 2020.
THE spring gathering of finance ministers and central bankers in Washington next month will be shifted to a “virtual format” due to the Covid-19 epidemic, said the International Monetary Fund and World Bank yesterday. The twice-yearly meetings of the development lending institutions attract thousands of officials, journalists and private sector participants from 180 member countries – just the kind of gathering health authorities have said should be avoided.
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