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As the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings take place in Washington, please join Hudson Institute for a special conversation with Congressman French Hill (R-AR), member of the House Committee on Financial Services, to discuss how the U.S. and its allies can provide increased international development assistance to a cash-strapped Ukraine under Russian invasion, including through the World Bank and IMF. Congressman Hill, now in his fourth term in Congress, served previously at the Department of Treasury and at the White House, where he helped design economic relief packages for newly emerging post-communist societies after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He will be joined by Hudson Institute Distinguished Fellow Ken Weinstein.
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