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2006 Calendar of Emerging Markets News & Events |
Contact:
In Washington
Corrie Shanahan
Phone: + (202) 473-2258
Cell phone: + (202) 294-4697
Email: cshanahan@ifc.org
Joseph O’Keefe
Phone: + (202) 458-4032
Cell phone: +(202) 413-5109
Email: jokeefe@ifc.org
Year 2006 Will Be 50-Year Milestone for the Emerging Markets
Concept Born with the Founding of
International Finance Corporation
Private Sector Financing Arm of World Bank Group
January
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Publication of Global Capitalism: Its Rise and Fall in the 20th Century by Jeffry A. Frieden. (Norton). Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University, specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations. Publication of Globalization and Economic and Financial Instability, edited by H. Peter Gray and John R. Dilyard (Edward Elgar).
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February 5-8 |
J.P. Morgan’s Annual Emerging Markets Winter Conference, Deer Valley, Utah.
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March |
Publication of Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization, by Paolo Mauro, Nathan Sussman, and Yishay Yafeh (Oxford University Press). Publication of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, by William Easterly (Penguin). Publication of Global Integration and Technology Transfer, edited by Bernard M. Hoekman and Beata Smarzynska Javorcik (World Bank Publications). Publication of Capitalism Unleashed, by Andrew Glyn (Oxford University Press).
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April 4-6 |
World Bank Group Private Sector Development Forum, Washington, D.C.; The PSD Forum brings together investors, economists, and development finance officials to discuss the latest research and trends in promoting private sector growth in the emerging market countries.
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April 4 |
Social Entrepreneurship Expo, Washington, D.C.; leading U.S. foundation executives meet with social entrepreneurs co-hosted by IFC and the Omidyar, Schwab, Case, and Lemelson foundations.
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May |
Publication of annual Global Development Finance 2006 research report by the World Bank Group; the report provides long-term data on the scale and type of various cross-border capital flows – foreign direct investment, bank lending, equity flows, official development assistance – into the emerging markets. Publication of Macroeconomics and Global Financial Markets, by Alfred Schipke (Springer).
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May 11-12 |
IFC Private Equity Conference, Washington, D.C.; one of the largest gatherings of emerging market private equity fund managers in the world. Publication of Standard & Poor’s annual Global Stock Market Factbook.
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June 7 |
IFC's Sustainable Emerging Markets Finance Summit, London; key stakeholders will explore the issues that are driving sustainable emerging market finance, such as climate change, shareholder value addition, and demographics. The Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards, created in association with IFC, this is the first truly global awards program dedicated to recognizing banks that have shown leadership and innovation in integrating social and environmental objectives into their operations, while still maximizing financial gain for the benefit of shareholders. IFC’s South Asia Department publishes New Industries from New Places: The Emergence of Hardware and Software Industries in India and China. (Contact: Neil Gregory).
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July |
Publication of World Bank’s Emerging Capital Markets and Globalization, which argues that the development of local capital markets in most of Latin America has been slow relative to other emerging economies.
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July 24 |
Founding date of the International Finance Corporation, private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group; IFC, the first multilateral created to promote private sector development in the developing nations, was a pioneer in foreign direct investment and coined the term “emerging markets” in 1981; today, IFC continues to introduce an ever-wider array of investors and securities instruments into the developing nations and is the global benchmark for environmental and social standards in project finance (the Equator Principles). See: www.ifc.org.
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Sept. 18 |
IFC will sponsor a one-day global investors conference in advance of the World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings in Singapore; the conference will include a broad spectrum of leading financial institutions, multinationals, equity investors, major domestic companies, and development partners from across the emerging markets.
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Sept. 19-20 |
Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund. Release of Doing Business in 2007, IFC and the World Bank’s annual investment climate research report, which tracks and compares barriers to starting and operating a business in more than 150 countries.
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December |
Publication of The Emerging Markets Century: World Class Companies and Strategies to Watch by Antoine van Agtmael, founder and president of Emerging Markets Management, LLC (Simon & Shuster). Van Agtmael, who coined the term “emerging markets” while working for IFC, served as division chief in the World Bank’s Treasury operations and as deputy director of IFC’s Capital Markets Department. While at IFC, he also created the world’s first emerging markets equity index; Agtmael previously published World Emerging Stock Markets (1993) and Emerging Securities Markets (1984).
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