World Bank Group Development Committee

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Feature Story | Apr 23, 2022

Helping Countries Cope with Multiple Crises

This year’s Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund took place at a time of overlapping global crises. The war in Ukraine has compounded concerns about inflation, COVID-19, climate change, and debt, with many other countries also facing fragility and conflict.

Feature Story | Oct 15, 2021

Ensuring a Strong Recovery for Developing Countries

The global economy is experiencing an uneven recovery, with the risk that it will worsen inequality and leave low- and middle-income countries behind.

Virtual Development Committee October 2020

Feature Story | Oct 16, 2020

Laying the Foundations for a Resilient Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate countries, overwhelming health systems, disrupting productivity, threatening food security, multiplying job losses, and reducing incomes, particularly for the poorest.

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Feature Story | Apr 17, 2020

Decisive Action in an Unprecedented Crisis

The world is experiencing unprecedented challenges from COVID-19—the coronavirus pandemic—that could erase development gains for many countries.

Feature Story | Oct 19, 2019

Staying focused on better outcomes for the world’s poorest people

The World Bank Group, in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, can help emerging and low-income countries bolster potential growth, increase their resilience to shocks, boost domestic revenues, and continue building policy buffers.

Future Meetings

The joint Bank-IMF Development Committee meets every fall at the time of the Annual Meetings of the Boards of the Governors of the World Bank and the IMF, and every spring at the Spring Meetings, to discuss the progress of the work of the Bank and the Fund. Following the Annual Meetings tradition, the Development Committee meets in Washington two years out of three and, in order to reflect the international character of the two institutions, every third year in a different member country.

2022

Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.

Development Committee	Friday, October 14, 2022
International Monetary and Financial Committee	Saturday, October 15, 2022

2023

Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.

Development Committee	Saturday, April 22, 2023
International Monetary and Financial Committee	Saturday, April 22, 2023

Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, Marrakech, Morocco.

Development Committee	Saturday, October 14, 2023
International Monetary and Financial Committee	Saturday, October 14, 2023

Chair and Executive Secretary

Azucena Arbeleche

Chair

Azucena Arbeleche is the Development Committee Chair since October 15, 2021, and is the Minister of Economy and Finance of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay.

Diariétou Gaye

Executive Secretary

Diariétou Gaye is the Development Committee Executive Secretary. The Secretariat carries out the diverse day-to-day working on the Committee on the growing number of development issues.