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14:30-16:00

Flagship Session 3. A Growth Reset for Emerging Markets

Key questions:

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What are the main characteristics and the key drivers of the slowdown?

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How are governments and businesses adapting to slow economic growth and what actions need to be 

taken to catalyze growth?

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Preventing the resurgence of financial crisis in emerging markets; 

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Deep depreciations of emerging market currencies;

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How to restart growth for emerging markets under new conditions?

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Lifting productivity growth: the role of urbanization;  

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Sustainable capital flow to emerging markets;

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Use of buffers (SWF reserves and pension funds) and its implications for banks and capital flows;

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What policy options should implement emerging economies to stabilize growth;

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New growth model and structural reforms for emerging economies.

Moderator: 

Ayhan Kose, Director, Development Prospects Group, World Bank

Speakers:

Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics, MIT, winner of the 2005 John Bates 

Clark Medal

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University

Ivan Miklos, President of economic think - tank M.E.S.A. 10, Deputy Prime 

Minister of Slovakia (1998-2002, 2002-2006, 2010-2012), Minister of Finance of 

Slovakia (2002-2006, 2010-2012), Euromoney`s Finance Minister of the Year for 

2004

Javier Guzman, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Mexico

Erik Berglof, Director, Institute for Global Affairs, London School of Economics 

and Political Science

16:20-18:00

Flagship Session 4. Monetary and Financial Challenges in Eurasia

Key questions:

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Policies for strengthening domestic currencies in Caucasus and Central Asia;

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Challenges for Central Asia and Caucasus in implementation of inflation targeting and free float regime;

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How macro prudential should be used in Eurasia?

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What are the implications for the financial and banking sector?

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Current instabilities and the downgrades in countries and banking ratings;

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Managing currency depreciation and currency mismatch: implication to corporate and banking sector of the 

region;

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Is the RMB becoming more important in settlements and invoicing currency in Eurasia as a new anchor? 

What are the consequences for exchange rate regime and policy options?

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Masood Ahmed, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF

Speakers:

Thomas Sargent, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, 2011 for the empirical 

research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy

Athanasios Orphanides, Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and 

Management, MIT, Governor of the Bank of Cyprus (2007-2012) 

Timur Suleimenov, EEC Minister of Economy and Financial Policy

Richard Luddington, Vice Chairman, Global Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley 

Turalay Kenc, Chair of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics, 

Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey (2011-2016) 

Juha Kahkonen, Deputy Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF

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ASTANA ECONOMIC FORUM

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25 May

09:30-11:00

Palace of 

Independence, 

Premium Hall 2,

1 floor

UNDP`s 50

th

 Anniversary event: 

EXPLORING NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO ACCELERATE THE SDGs

Organized by: 

United Nations Development Programme in Kazakhstan

Key questions:

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Celebrating UNDP`s 50th anniversary by highlighting its achievements and outlining its crucial role in the 

SDG agenda;

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Building on the success of MDGs, SDGs are universal goals accepted by all countries and applicable to 

all – both rich and poor, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development 

and respecting national policies and priorities. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three 

dimensions of sustainable development – economic, environmental and social.

Moderator:

Norimasa Shimomura, UN Resident Coordinator / UNDP Resident 

Representative in Kazakhstan

Munkhtuya Altangerel,  UNDP Deputy Resident Representative

Speakers: 

Gulshara Abdykalikova, Secretary of State of the Republic of Kazakhstan 

Cihan Sultanoglu, UN Assistant Secretary-General, UNDP Assistant 

Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the 

Commonwealth of Independent States

Byrganym Aitimova, Deputy of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of 

Kazakhstan

Kairat Kelimbetov, Governor of the Astana International  Financial Centre

Shigeo Katsu, President, Nazarbayev University

Fadi Farra, Lecturer on Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 

Partner at Whiteshield Partners 

  

Melita Vujnovic, WHO Representative and Head of Country Office

Aigul Solovyeva,  Member of the Presidium, Atameken, Deputy of IV, V 

convocations of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Nurlan Dossumov, Alliance of Volunteers of Kazakhstan, Manager of Pecha 

Kucha Astana

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