Annual Meetings  Boards of Governors OCTOBER 1998
			International Monetary Fund World Bank Group WASHINGTON, D.C.

	1998 Program of Seminars Program Schedule

Saturday October 3

9:00	East Asia: The Road to Recovery Now available: Statement by Duck-Woo Nam
9:30
10:00
10:30	Welcome Coffee
11:00	Bank and Corporate Restructuring Under Stress		Early Warning Systems: Using Models to Predict Currency Crises		*Social Dimensions of Financial Crises
11:30
12:00
12:30	Luncheon
1:00
1:30
2:00	Strengthening Banking Systems
2:30
3:00
3:30	Tea
4:00	Corporate Governance in Developing Countries		Ratings, Investment Information and Transparency		*Economic Policy & Equity
4:30
5:00
5:30	Global Integration (keynote)
6:00
6:30	Reception
7:00

Sunday October 4

9:00	China - Policy Reforms and Emerging Role		Ecuador - A New Beginning		South Africa - Economic Reforms and Regional Opportunity
9:30
10:00	Indonesia - Challenges and Prospects (10:15-11:15)			*African Policy Reform - Workshop (10:15-11:00)
10:30
11:00
11:30	Brazil - Economic Update for Investors (11:30-12:30)		Unleashing Africa's Business Opportunities (11:15-12:30)		Malaysia: Steps to Reviving Growth (11:30-12:30)
12:00
12:30	Luncheon
1:00
1:30
2:00	Building Financial Systems for Growth in the Middle East and North Africa			Europe as an International Financial Center
2:30
3:00
3:30	Tea
4:00	Valuing Intellectual Capital		*Approaches to Debt Relief		Latin America: A Steady Ship in Troubled Waters?
4:30
5:00
5:30
6:00
6:30
7:00

Monday October 5

9:00	Knowledge for Development: Risks & Opportunities in the Info Revolution			Local Bond Markets: An Alternative for Emerging Market Borrowers
9:30
10:00
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Managing Knowledge in the Marketplace		*Building the Informed Economy: The Role of an Independent Media		The Role of Political Risk Insurance in Project Finance
11:30
12:00
12:30	Luncheon Keynote — Global Media, New Technologies
1:00
1:30
2:00
2:30	Bank/Fund Expo '98 Open House
3:00
3:30	The Millennium Computer Bug: Challenges for Developing Countries		*From Knowledge to Action: The Role of Think-Tanks in Policy Reform		New Trends in the Investment of Institutional Assets
4:00
4:30
5:00	Reception
6:00
6:30

Tuesday October 6

9:00	Annual Meetings Plenary Session relayed live to participants
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:30
1:00
1:30
2:00	A New Central Bank: The European Central Bank		From Stabilization to Growth: New Investment Opportunities in Bulgaria		*Labor Standards: Who Really Benefits?
2:30
3:00
3:30	Tea
4:00	*Corruption and Policy Reform			Financial Sector Reform in Hungary
4:30
5:00
5:30
6:00
6:30
7:00

* Public Policy Forums are open to all Program and other registered Annual Meetings participants, free of charge.

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