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Economy, Social Cohesion and the Environment

Meeting of the SI Committee on the Economy, Social Cohesion and the Environment

24-25 March 2003

Meeting in Washington DC on 24-25 March, members of the SI Committee on the Economy, Social Cohesion and the Environment furthered their discussions on the Committee's 'Governance in a Global Society - A Social Democratic Approach' report.

Presentations on policies of the World Bank were given by Ad Melkert, Executive Director of the World Bank, at the headquarters of which the meeting was held, and on the International Monetary Fund by Masood Ahmed, Deputy Director of the Policy Development and Review Department, with special responsibility for highly-indebted countries. A presentation was also given by Amar Bhattacharya, Senior Advisor from the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network at the World Bank. Delegates participated from Albania, Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United States (Full list of participants). The meeting agreed on substantial proposals, advancing the report of the Committee to be contributed to the forthcoming SI Congress.

The meeting was chaired by Christoph Zöpel, Chair of the Committee, of the Social Democratic Party, SPD, Germany, and it was decided that the Committee will next meet on 27-28 June in Berlin.


LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Chair of the Committee
Christoph Zöpel
(SDP Germany)


Secretary General of the SI
Luis Ayala


ALBANIA
Socialist Party of Albania
Anastas Angjeli


ARGENTINA
Radical Civic Union, UCR
Brian Thomson


FRANCE
Socialist Party, PS
Bernard Soulage


GERMANY
Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD
Ulla Burchardt
Katrin Werblow


HUNGARY
Hungarian Socialist Party, MSzP
Andras Balogh


ITALY
Democrats of the Left, DS
Fabio Nicolucci


MEXICO
Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI
Javier Sánchez Campuzano
Gustavo Carvajal Moreno


NORWAY
Norwegian Labour Party, DNA
Espen Villanger


PORTUGAL
Socialist Party, PS
Maria João Rodrigues


ROMANIA
Social Democratic Party, PSD
Adrian Severin


SPAIN
Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party, PSOE
Germá Bel


SWEDEN
Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP
Urban Ahlin


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Democratic Socialists of America, DSA
Frank Llewellyn


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Social Democrats USA, SDUSA
Joel Freedman


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
National Democratic Institute, NDI
Ivan Doherty


International League of Religious Socialists, ILRS
Andrew Hammer


PES Rapporteur
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Marcel Mersch


Socialist International Women, SIW
Pia Locatelli


SI Secretariat
Latifa Perry
Sophie Thérouanne


Ad Melkert, Executive Director, World Bank

Masood Ahmed, Deputy Director, Policy Department, IMF

Amar Bhattacharya, Senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank on Globalisation



Other activities

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