A day of debates, discussions and conferences related to the economic situation and the challenges for Latin America and Peru will take place this Friday, March 8 through the Economist’s Day event, which is celebrated on the same date.
The event will be inaugurated in the morning by the Economy and Finance Minister Oscar Graham and will have three panels in which prominent economists will participate.
The first panel will be Monetary Policy and Digital Currencies: The Future of Central Banking, while the second will be entitled Inequality, Growth and Economic Development. These will be followed by the conference The Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America. And, finally, the third panel will be called Economic and Social Perspectives and Challenges in Latin America.
Some of the participants will be the professor from the Universidad del Pacífico and Peru21 columnist, Carlos ParodiTim Kehoe, of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve (USA), the former Minister of Economy, Alonso Segura, the former head of the Ministry of Production, Piero Ghezzi, and Carmen Reinhart, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group among other personalities.
The event will be co-organized between the Association of Economics Students of Peru, the National Congress of Economics Students 2022 and the Regional Congresses of Economics Students of Cusco, Huancavelica, Sullana and Tingo María, and the Infox online economics education platform.
In this regard, the founder of Infox, Yuliño Anastacio, explained that the event seeks to present referents who can speak and analyze various aspects related to the Latin American and Peruvian economic reality.
“This is a day that is being institutionalized as a special date, in which we sit down to reflect on the country’s problems because the situation itself shows us that it is very important that we are constantly searching for what is wrong. in the country. And the panels that have been raised show problems that are part of the future and of the present”, Anastacio highlighted.
He also added that the event reflects the spirit of Infox, through which it seeks to facilitate access to information and knowledge in economic matters through more than 80 courses related to macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance, financial risks, among many others. others.
“If I don’t know anything about anything, and I want to learn, then the courses are designed to learn from something elementary to something advanced,” said the economist, adding that the platform aims to fill the knowledge gaps in economic matters that may exist among students. , graduates and professionals whose activities are linked to the economy.
