India will host a high-level IMF conference on Asia's economic performance next month that will explore the next stage of policy challenges in the region to maintain growth while boosting jobs and reducing inequality.
To be co-hosted by the Indian government, the three-day conference from March 11-13 in New Delhi will take stock of Asia's strong economic performance, its increased resilience to shocks, and the region's economic policy challenges. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and IMF Managing Director Christine lagarde would address it.
“Advancing Asia provides a forum for Asia-Pacific leaders to discuss a region renowned for its economic successes over the past decades,” lagarde said. As Asia's advanced, emerging market and developing economies move to the next stage of success, they face the key challenge of how to maintain and enhance the region's high growth record while boosting jobs, reducing inequality, accelerating infrastructure and human capital development and implementing other growth-enhancing reforms,” she said.