Networking Breakfast and Return to Convergence: Re-igniting Reforms and Promoting Growth Discussion Panel.

EBRD, Annual Meeting and Business Forum 2014, Warsaw, Poland, AGM, Discussion Panel.,

The last 25 years of change and transition since the fall of the Berlin Wall in former communist Europe have produced both transition champions and transition laggards. What are the growth prospects for the region in the short term and the longer term? Will income convergence with the advanced countries resume and, if not, why not?

 

There is widespread consensus on the policies and reforms needed to invigorate growth, yet reforms have stagnated since the mid-2000s. What are the political, social and human capital constraints standing in the way of new reforms and how can these constraints be overcome? What can be done to re-ignite reforms and create a virtuous circle of sustainable growth and greater prosperity?

 

 

Moderator

Erik Berglof

 

Chief Economist, EBRD

Speakers

Jan Krzysztof Bielecki

 

Chairman, Economic Council of the Prime Minister

HE Daniela Bobeva

 

Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Development, Bulgaria

Ahmed Galal

 

Managing Director, Economic Research Forum

Fabrizio Saccomanni

 

Senior Economic Advisor, Istituto Affari Internazionali

Mateusz Szczurek

 

Minister of Finance, Poland

Andris Vilks

 

Minister of Finance, EBRD Governor, Latvia

 

 

 

Done