A group of 60 IIPM students, representing all the seven Indian centres of The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), is all set to attend an exclusive seminar, to be addressed jointly by a premium panel of economists from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund(IMF), in Washington, DC. Scheduled to take place on October 5, 2006, this seminar is a part of the institute’s unique international program, the Global Opportunity and Threat Analysis.

The students would be addressed by Shantayanan Devaranjan, Chief Economist (World Bank’s South Asia Region), Raghurajan (one of the managing Directors at IMF) and Debran on issues covering “Why India’s growth is like nobody else’s?”, “How can India grow so fast with such high fiscal deficit?” and “ India’s rapidly-growing states: What lessons for lagging states?”

Apart from a trip to the World Bank, these students have also been invited to various other institutions and organizations in the United States, during their 12 nights stay in the country.