2024 Global Meeting of the Emerging Markets Forum

Our 17th Global Meeting will take place this year in Washington DC in October at the Cosmos Club, prior to the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It will start with an opening plenary followed by a reception on Tuesday 22 October and will end with a closing reception on Thursday 24 October.

The agenda is built under the following overarching theme: Re-globalization: Challenges and Possibilities, and will focus on the following seven key topics of worldwide interest:

State of the Global Economy and Implications for the Global Economy

Global Trade and Emerging Economies — How to move forward with “Re-globalization” to Benefit the EMDEs?

Private Investment Flows into EMDEs — How to Revive Private Flows Particularly into Africa Investments

Reform of Multilateral Development Banks — What Should Emerging Markets Do?

From a Unipolar to a Multipolar World — Whether and How?

Asian Century Revisited — Can Major Asian Economies Avoid the Middle-Income Trap?

Long-Term Development of Latin America—Overcoming the Resource Curse, and Fighting Inequality

Background papers: