24 hour ECONOTHON: Development Never Sleeps

We did it! 24 hours of non-stop discussions on development economics. Thanks for watching and engaging!

Want to learn more about the economics behind international development? How can we stimulate economic growth, reduce poverty and help people in developing countries? We went live for a 24-hour “Econothon” where experts from the World Bank Group and beyond engaged a global audience on the development challenges facing the world today.

Economic growth, jobs, inequality climate change -- these development issues never sleep.

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Run of Show

12:00-12:25 pm	Interview with David Malpass, President, World Bank Group
12:25- 12:35 pm	The Economics of a Clean Energy Future
12:35-01:00 pm	Looking to the Future with Young Economists Ruth Hill, Lead Economist, World Bank Heather Moylan, Survey Specialist, World Bank Eeshani Kandpal, Research Economist, World Bank

1:00-1:30 pm	Panel Discussion: Adapting for an Uncertain World: Climate Change and Resilience Kristalina Giorgieva, CEO, World Bank Group Julie Rozenberg, Senior Economist Martin Heger, Economist, Environment Global Practice
1:30-1:40 pm	Interview: The Digital Revolution: Providing Opportunity for All Boutheina Guermazi, Director for the Digital Development Global Practice, World Bank Group
1:40-2:00 pm	Fireside Chat: How Does Growth Happen? Aaditya Mattoo, Development Economics, World Bank Group Pinelopi Goldberg, Chief Economist, World Bank Group

2:00-2:20 pm	Intro Trailer and Interview with LAC World Bank Vice President and the Chief Economist
2:20-2:30 pm	Session I: Inclusion/ Poverty: Panama
2:30-2:45 pm	Session II: Migration: Colombia and Venzuela
2:45-3:00 pm	Session III: Infrastructure: Ecuador
3:00-3:20 pm	Session IV: Environment Argentina
3:20- 3:30 pm	Session V: Resilience: Caribbean
3:30- 3:40 pm	Session VI: Gender: Mexico
3:40- 4:00 pm	Session VII: Sustainable Agriculture: Brazil

4:00-4:15 pm	Interview: Future of jobs David Mckenzie, Lead Economist
4:15-4:30 pm	Interview: Investing in People Aart Kraay, Senior Adviser, World Bank Group
4:30-4:45 pm	Interview: Reforming the Civil Service Dan Rogger, Economist, World Bank
4:45-5:00 pm	Interview: How to Help the World's Most Vulnerable States Alexandre Marc, Chief Technical Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence, World Bank

5:00-5:30 pm	Interview: Data Dives Raka Banerjee, Development Data Group, World Bank Group Haishan Fu, Director, Data Group, World Bank Sydney Gourlay, Survey Specialist, World Bank Malar Veerappan, Senior Data Scientist, World Bank Ben Stewart, Geographer, World Bank
5:30-5:40 pm	Interview: Gains and Losses from Tariffs Bob Rijkers, Senior Economist, World Bank
5:40-6:00 pm	Interview: Education Halsey Rogers, Lead Economist, World Bank

6:00-6:20 pm	Turning the Tables with David Theis David Theis, World Bank Group Spokesperson Heather Scott, AFP Lalit Jha, Press Trust of India
6:20-6:40 pm	Panel Discussion: Impact Investing Principles - The Private Sector in Development Neil Gregory, Lead Economist Afsaneh Beschloss, CEO RockCreek
6:40-7:00 pm	Panel Discussion: Does Trade Aid Development Pinelopi Goldberg, Chief Economist, World Bank Group Aaditya Mattoo, Development Economics, World Bank Group Caroline Freund, Global Director, World Bank Group

7:00-7:30 pm	Panel Discussion: Women's Empowerment Caren Grown, Senior Director, Gender, World Bank Rudaba Nasir, Global Lead for Women's Employment & Childcare, IFC Rita Ramalho, Senior Manager, World Bank Girija Borker, Economist, World Bank
7:30-7:50 pm	Interview: Is $1.90 enough? Dean Jolliffe, Lead Economist, World Bank
7:50-8:00 pm	Interview: What is the Blue Economy? Karin Kemper, Global Director, World Bank

8:00-8:25 pm

Fireside Chat: How to judge results
Arianna Legovini, Development Impact Evaluation Unit, World Bank Group
Sveta Milusheva, Economist, World Bank
Guadalupe Bedoya, Economist, World Bank

8:25-8:50 pm

Panel Discussion: Building the Perfect Taxation System
Gabriela Inchauste, Lead Economist, World Bank
Oyebola Okunogbe, Economist, World Bank

8:50-9:00 pm

Insuring Against Risk in Development(MIGA)
Moritz Nikolaus Nebe, Sector Manager, MIGA

9:00-9:10pm	Welcome and Overview by Victoria Kwakwa, EAP Regional Vice President
9:10-9:15 pm	Climate-smart Infrastructure in the Pacific
9:15-9:20 pm	Climate-smart Agriculture in Vietnam
9:20- 9:25 pm	Innovative Financing in East Asia Pacific
9:25-9:30 pm	Malaysia and the World Bank Group
9:30- 10:45 pm	Panel Disussion: What Will Drive East Asia’s Growth and Jobs Over the Next Decades?
10:45- 11:50 pm	Urbanization in East Asia Pacific
11:50- 11:55 pm	Building Human Capital in Indonesia
11:55-12:00 pm	East Asia's Rapidly Aging Population - Eldercare in China

11:00 pm-1:00 am

The Late with Nate Show
Nada Hamadeh, Program Manager, World Bank
Dr. Yoram Bauman, The Standup Economist
Aly Rahim, Practice Manager, World Bank
Victor Hugo Orozco-Olvera, Economist, World Bank

1:00-1:10 am	Achieving South Asia’s Potential: World Bank’s Strategy Hartwig Schafer, Vice President for South Asia, Noreyana Fernando, Communications Associate (Moderator)
1:10-1:30 am	Unique challenges of opportunities of South Asia & importance of economic analysis for development Hans Timmer, Chief Economist, South Asia Region Sayema Haque Bidisha, Professor, of Economics, University of Dhaka Nazmus Sadat Khan, local WB Economist (Moderator)
1:30-1:45 am	Urbanization Martin Rama, Chief Economist, Latin America and Carribean Yue LiI, Senior Economist, South Asia Region
1:45- 2:00 am	Informality and inward-looking approach Robert Beyer, Young Professional, South Asia Region Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Lead Economist and Global Lead South Asia, Middle East and North Africa, Poverty and Equity Rosy Khanna, Regional Industry Director, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Fei Deng, Country Program Coordinator, Pakistan
2:00- 2:20 am	Human Capital Ritika D’souza, Research Analyst, South Asia Region Shwetlena Sabarwal, Senior Economist, Education Global Practice Francisca Ayodeji Akala, Senior Health Specialist, Human Capital Project
2:20- 2:35 am	Female labor force participation Maria Beatriz Orlando, Lead Social Development Specialist, South Asia Region Sanjay Kathuria, Lead Economist, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment
2:35- 2:50 am	Climate Change Priya Shyamsundar, Lead Economist, The Nature Conservancy Muthukumara Mani, Lead Economist, South Asia Region
2:50- 3:00 am	Closing remarks

03:00-4:00 am
Africa's Digital Moonshot

04:00-04:30 am

Leveraging Trade to Reduce Poverty

4:30-4:35 am	Preview of what’s to come: Selena Batchily and Pierre Laporte
4:35-4:45 am	Four Questions with Africa Vice President Hafez Ghanem Hafez Ghanem, Vice President, Africa, World Bank
4:50-5:30 am	Panel Debate/Discussion/Report launch: The Future of Work in Africa (LIVE) Moderator: Selena Batchily Albert Zeufack, Chief Economist for Africa, World Bank Pierre Laporte, Country Director, Ghana, World Bank Dr. Edward Brown, Director of Policy Advisory Service, ACET Dinah Recheal Blankson, Blog4Dev winner, Ghana Kofi Dadzie, CEO and co-founder, Rancard
5:30- 5:33 am	Quiz Show: Africa
5:33-6:13 am	Panel Debate/Discussion: Powering Africa’s Transformation (LIVE) Moderator: Selena Batchily Albert Zeufack, Chief Economist, Africa, World Bank Momodou Njie, Director, West Africa Power Pool Harald Poeltner, Associate Partner, McKinsey Kenya Martha Wakoli, Project Development Manager, Virunga Power
6:13- 6:15 am	Quiz Show: Africa
6:15-6:30 am	Fireside chat with Chief Economist Albert Zeufack

6:30-6:40 am	A New Economy for MENA
6:40-6:45 am	First Digital Mashreq Forum
6:45-6:50am	Introduction Digital Maghreb
6:50-7:00am	Transforming MENA Labor Market
7:00-7:10 am	Economic Opportunities in Tunisia
7:10- 7:20 am	Second generation of reforms in Egypt
7:20- 7:30 am	Challenges and Opportunities in West Bank and Gaza
7:30- 8:00 am	Development and Humanitarian Continuum in Yemen

8:00-8:30 am

Interview: Is Debt Good or Bad
Marcello Estevao, Global Director, MTI
Evis Rucaj, Senior Economist, World Bank

8:30-8:40 am

Interview: The High Toll of Unsafe Roads
Dipan Bose, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank

8:30-9:00 am

Interview: Behind the scenes: Doing Business
Santiago Croci, Program Manager, Doing Business, World Bank Group
Charlotte Jiang, Senior Private Sector Development Specialist, World Bank

9:00-10:00 am

ECA Videos

Interview with World Bank Regional Vice President for Europe and Central Asia, Cyril Muller

Video Feature: On location in Tashkent exploring the dramatic reforms underway in Uzbekistan

Video Feature: Around the Region with Europe and Central Asia’s Country Directors

10:00-10:40 am

ECA Region Macro Economic Discussion

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank
Faruk Khan, Lead Economist for Ukraine World Bank
Apurva Sanghi, Lead Economist for the Russian Federation

10:40-11:00 am

Fireside Chat on Financial Inclusion

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank

11:00-11:15 am	IDA - The Fund for the Poorest Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Practice Manager, World Bank
11:15-11:30 am	Interview: Artificial Intelligence in Development Bilal Siddiqi, Economist Sam Fraiberger, Data Scientist, World Bank
11:30-11:45 am	Interview: The Rise of Behaviourial Economics Abigail Dalton, Operations Officer Samantha De Martino, Economist
11:45am-12:00 pm	Final Remarks with President David Malpass

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