May 20-21, 2008

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

• Agenda
• Meeting Report
• Powerpoint Presentation
• Participants

Sponsored By: Centre for International Governance and Innovation, CASE-Kyrgyzstan and New Rules for Global Finance

Financial Support: Open Society Institutes’ Central Asia Program

Meeting Objectives

To date, the debate about International Monetary Fund (IMF) Reform has been shaped largely by conversations within and among OECD countries and orthodox or mainstream economists. This project proposes to remedy this imbalance to the debate by sponsoring and/or encouraging a series of regional conferences that would enable developing countries to articulate their needs and priorities for future services from the IMF. In addition to four other meetings around the world, this meeting in Washington, DC would provide an opportunity to consider future global systemic needs that a reformed IMF should be prepared to address.

The purpose of these conferences is to influence the policy process. Therefore the regional outputs as well as outputs from a concluding conference will be designed so that the IMF Board of Governors and the Executive Board can understand and begin to implement. This implies that following the conclusion of the conferences, the work of implementation continues. A goal for the overall project should be a presentation to the Executive Board, and at least a written submission to all Governors. The Central Asia meeting will bring together senior officials and scholars from a number of countries of the region, along with a very select few other invitees, to analyze and discuss Central Asian perspectives on global monetary cooperation.