India, China to be focus of IMF-World Bank meet

India is set to share the centrestage with China at the upcoming IMF-World Bank meet in Singapore. The last time the meet was held in Asia was in Hong Kong in 1997 when Asia was in the thores of a financial crisis , which brought half-a-dozen east Asian countries on the brink of collapse.

Today, east Asia is the fastest-growing region with a phenomenal growth in commodity and stock markets.

The general theme in seminars in the Fund-Bank meet between September 16 and 18, spread over 37 sessions, is "Asia in the world and the world in Asia".

India and China will be the focus of attention of most of the seminars. In fact, the World Bank will come out with a book on this "Dancing with Giants: China, India and the Global Economy".

The list of 150 speakers at these seminars include Reserve Bank of India
Governor Y V Reddy, Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani, ITC Chairman Yogi Deveshwar, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath, Tata Sons Executive Director Alan Rosling and ICICI Bank Deputy Managing Director Nachiket Mor.

There will also be an "India Evening" to be organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on September 17.