The conference is targeted at experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers (including commodity savings funds and sovereign pension funds) as well as academics. It aims to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the...

Topics include (but are not limited to): - Earnings inequality and workers’ well-being - Precarious versus stable jobs - Informality and job quality - Innovative ways to measure the quality of the work environment - The impact of early entry into the labor market on job quality - Gender...

The overall theme of the meeting will be “Water Security in a Changing World.” Topics: - Addressing the food-energy-health environment and water nexus - Assessing large- and small-scale irrigation investments - Moving toward integrated urban and basin management - Dealing with groundwater...

The goal of the conference is to bring together academics and policy makers to discuss labor markets dynamics and their relation with growth. Topics: - Labor market responses to macroeconomic and policy changes: structure of labor markets, downward wage rigidities, the institutional environment...

The lags in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy mean that policymakers must forecast the future path of the economy. Accurate forecasts are only possible with a clear understanding of the structure of the economy and the shocks affecting it. This two-week seminar aims to improve...

Recent shifts in the Arab world coupled with an economic contraction at the global level have created a new urgency for decision-makers across the region: the need to address the fundamental conditions required to revive growth and support human development. Now more than ever, it is critical to...

The Annual Meeting of the New Champions, the “Summer Davos”, is the foremost global business gathering in Asia. Introduced in 2007 in close collaboration with the People’s Republic of China and with the personal support of Premier Wen Jiabao, last year’s Meeting in Tianjin convened 1,300...

We welcome papers analyzing: - The measurement of both, inter and intra generational income mobility - The effect of educational, labor market and social policies in enhancing / obstructing social mobility - Political economy aspects of an emerging middle class: Do the poor face the risk of...

The organizers welcome submissions on the general theme of Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes. Relevant aspects of globalization include trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment and the operation of multinational enterprises, current account imbalances, real exchange rate...

Robust economic growth and an improved investment climate have underpinned the economic recovery of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), buoyed by an emerging market of nearly 600 million consumers. The planned economic integration by 2015 will see ASEAN emerge as the world’s...