The Global Monitoring Report series, produced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, focuses on how the world is doing in implementing the policies and actions for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and related development outcomes. The reports are a framework for accountability in global development policy. This year’s Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs delves into country performance and reveals a diverse, and often hopeful, picture. For example, among developing countries that are falling short on the Millennium Development Goals, half are close to becoming on-track. With improved policies and faster growth, these countries can still achieve the targets in 2015 or soon after.
Taking the opportunity of the visit by the lead author of this report, Dr. Delfin Go, Lead Economist, Development Prospects Group of the World Bank, the World Bank Tokyo Office will organize a public seminar “Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs", featuring his presentation to discuss challenges faced with developing countries in the area of MDGs, and what developing countries will need to implement.
To attend, please register online at the World Bank Tokyo Office website http://www.worldbank.org/japan or send your name, affiliation, contact information via email to yhiraki@worldbank.org (admission is free).
The World Bank Tokyo Office - Tokyo Development Learning Center 10F, Fukoku Seimei Bld. 2-2-2Uchisaiwai-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011
Speaker
Dr. Delfin Go, Lead Economist, Development Prospects Group, World Bank
Delfin Go is Lead Economist in the World Bank's Development Prospects Group, and the lead author of Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs. He was formerly from the office of the World Bank Africa Chief Economist, where he focused macroeconomic issues, aid effectiveness and management, and conducted Country Policy and Institutional Assessments (CPIA). He has also undertaken analytical work on macro-micro linkages for probing the distributional consequences and the impact on growth, poverty, and MDG indicators of alternative macroeconomic frameworks, external shocks, levels of aid flows as well as the composition of public expenditure. Go has also served as the World Bank’s Country Economist and PREM Cluster Leader in Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia) and for Zambia. Go started his career at the World Bank as a Research Economist involved in research relating to investment and growth in developing countries, trade liberalization, public expenditure analysis, macro-fiscal performance, external debt and adjustment problems, and tools for fiscal analysis. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University.
Language
Japanese and English (with simultaneous translation)
Inquiries
Yukako Hiraki, the World Bank Tokyo Office yhiraki@worldbank.org Phone: 03-3597-6650
 
Dr. Delfin Go, Lead Economist, Development Prospects Group, World Bank
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