"Poland – reaching the last mile of convergence". Presentation of the World Bank Group’s Systemic Country Diagnostic Update

Event date:
24.09.2024, 10:00 - 12:30
A World Bank seminar organised in collaboration with the SGH Warsaw School of Economics to be held on Tuesday 24 September. It will bring in an update on the Systemic Country Assessment (SCD) by World Bank Gropu’s leading experts. The seminar will be attended by World Bank representatives, external experts, as well as lecturers and researchers from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.
Seminar on “Poland – reaching the last mile of convergence”. Presentation of the World Bank Group’s Systemic Country Diagnostic Update
Agenda

09.30–10.10

Registration of participants

10.00–10.15

Welcome statements:

  • Professor Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, PhD, Vice Rector for Research
  • Paweł Karbownik, Deputy Minister of Finance,
  • Anna Akhalkatsi, World Bank Country Director for the EU

10.15–10.35

Presentation of the Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD):

  • Reena Badiani-Magnusson & Nathalie Picarelli, Senior Economists, World Bank

10.40–11.25

Panel Discussion on the Systematic Country Diagnostic

  • Prof. Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, PhD, SGH – moderator
  • Ines Rocha, IFC Regional Director for Europe
  • Jolanta Jaworska, Government & Regulatory Affairs Director IBM Poland, Baltics & Ukraine, President Digital Technology Employers Union Lewiatan
  • Paweł Śliwowski, Acting Head of the Polish Economic Institute PIE

11.25–11.40

Audience Q&A  

11.45–11.50

Closing remarks

  • Anna Akhalkatsi, World Bank

11.50–13.00

Lunch


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Type of event:
seminar
Category:
scientific
Location:

SGH, ul. Batorego 8, building S (Centrum Przestrzeni Innowacyjnej), auditorium I

Organiser:

World Bank Group

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