The conference will focus on the new global challenges for international fiscal and monetary policy. Just three years after the recent pandemic, policy makers are confronted with a new set of global challenges. These include increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, regional conflicts and climate...

Africa is the world region with the strongest population dynamics, resulting in a young and aspiring population that is set to almost double by 2050. More than a fifth of the world’s population will then live in Africa. This offers great opportunities for businesses and countries seeking to...

This conference is the kick-off-event of a new research initiative on “Geopolitics and International Economics” at the Kiel Institute. The conference brings together many of the world’s leading scholars working at the intersection of geopolitics and economics. Among others, the topics to...

The workshop provides an opportunity for all those interested in the European Integration and Debt Crisis to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Papers from all of the follwoing fields may be submitted: European integration, financial and debt crisis, monetary and fiscal policy,...

Each spring, thousands of government officials, journalists, civil society organizations, and invited participants from the academia and private sectors, gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. At the heart of the gathering are...

This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners interested in the short- and long-term development of the European economy and its international relations to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both theoretical and empirical...

The Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) each year bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty...

Topic: Sharing Prosperity, Delivering Results UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs and World Bank leaders discussed what it will take to boost income growth among the bottom 40%.

The Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) each year bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty...