FM Sitharaman Arrives in Washington to Attend IMF, World Bank Meetings

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived in Washington to attend the annual spring conferences of the IMF and the World Bank and lead the G-20 international locations in a sequence of intense interactions over a number of points going through the world.

Sitharaman, who’s main a high-powered delegation, is scheduled to kick off her public engagements on Monday from the distinguished Peterson Institute for International Economics by talking on “resilience and growth of the Indian economy” and interacting with the think-tank neighborhood.

Among key engagements of the finance minister right here embrace, spring Meetings of International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; internet hosting the Second G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) assembly beneath India’s G20 Presidency and G20-related facet occasions; World Bank Development Committee and IMF Committee Plenaries, interplay with international economists and think-tanks, bilateral engagements and interplay with international enterprise leaders and traders in roundtables.

Sitharaman is scheduled to handle the Indian diaspora right here on Saturday at a reception hosted in her honour by India’s Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu.

The focus of her varied periods associated to G-20 might be to deliberate on points akin to addressing meals and vitality insecurity, managing international debt vulnerabilities, strengthening Multilateral Development Banks, mobilising finance for local weather motion, advancing monetary inclusion, and accelerating progress on International Tax and Financial Sector points.

The assembly will take inventory of the progress made on outcomes envisaged beneath India’s G20 Finance Track agenda, the finance ministry mentioned in a media launch.

Sitharaman is probably going to meet Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to focus on problems with mutual curiosity.

During the go to, a gathering of the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable might be co-chaired by India, IMF, and the World Bank on April 12, to focus on the present international debt panorama and methods to handle current challenges in debt restructuring.

On April 14, a high-level seminar on “Macro-financial implications of Crypto assets” might be held to assessment the macro-financial implications of Crypto Assets and focus on insurance policies to leverage advantages and include dangers.

Sitharaman can even meet the G20 Expert Group on strengthening MDBs on April 15, 2023, to focus on the necessity for an up to date MDBs ecosystem for the twenty first century in the direction of financing sustainable improvement targets and transboundary challenges.

In between her hectic schedule right here in Washington DC, she is probably going to discover a while to go to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for her interplay with the scientist neighborhood there. Even on her final journey right here, she had gone to the National Science Foundation headquarters in Alexandria to get a firsthand expertise of the analysis and work being carried out by the US in the sphere of science and expertise.

As the nation’s finance minister, Sitharaman believes that for India to be a developed nation by 2047, a aim set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it wants to make investments massively in the sphere of science and expertise, particularly in vital and cutting-edge applied sciences.

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