World Bank Briefing

Following a well established tradition, the AEB is pleased to announce the next World Bank briefing based on the World Bank’s “Russia Economic Report #36: Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy over the Boom and Downturn”.

The briefing will take place at the Residence of the British Ambassador in Moscow (Sofiyskaya Naberezhnaya, 14) on Friday November 11^th, 2016 from 10:00 – 11:30 (registration from 09:30).

Please register online for this event.

You will have the privilege to hear Apurva Sanghi, newly arrived World Bank’s Lead Economist for the Russian Federation.

Prior to that, Apurva Sanghi was based in Nairobi, Kenya as the Lead Economist for Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Eritrea. Before Kenya, Apurva was based in Washington DC where he led the Economic Growth Cluster of the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department. He is a selective commentator on economic issues in emerging markets, and his views have been expressed in opinion pages of major newspapers and blogs such as the Financial Times; the Economist; and Brookings.

Apurva is also a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) Special Report on Extreme Events, and was the team leader for the joint World Bank - UN flagship project on the economics of disasters. He has worked on development topics ranging from infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and agricultural economics. Before joining the World Bank, Apurva worked in private sector consulting; for the Thailand Development Research Institute; and held teaching and research positions at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University (Bangkok), and Yale University.

This time the Russia Economic Report #36 consists of three parts:

Part 1. Recent Economic Developments

Part 2. Outlook

Part 3. Special topic: Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy over the Boom and Downturn

Please have a look at the programme in ENGLISH and RUSSIAN.

The working language is English. Translation into Russian will not be provided.

Attendance Fees

AEB members’ participation for assigned representatives is free of charge;

Price for additional representatives of AEB members is 3,850 RUR (+ 18 % VAT);

Price for representatives of non-member companies: 7,700 RUR (+ 18 % VAT);

All payments are to be made through bank transfer or credit card ahead of the event. Once the transfer is made, the sum is not refundable. Please note that online payment with personal or corporate credit card is available. Please choose the “online payment” link when registering.

N.B. Please bring an ID with you for security checks at the entrance.

Please note that the registration will close as soon as we reach the maximum number of participants and that in any case we will not accept any more participants after 10 November 2016 at 10.00 AM.

Contact person:

Programme: Marie Rondelez, AEB Events Director, +7 (495) 234-27-64 (ext. 118), Marie.Rondelez@aebrus.ru;

Registration online: Tatiana Barysheva, AEB Events Coordinator, +7 (495) 234-27-64 (ext. 127), Tatiana.Barysheva@aebrus.ru.