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%.

Contributions are therefore invited which fit with the following themes and which are based on an original piece of research and are potentially publishable. - Urban/Territorial Politics - State Centrism and Territorial Politics - Institutions and Economic Development/Growth - Regional Policy in...

Conference program: Peace Science Society Workshop: - The Militarized Interstate Disputes Project: Introspection and Projection - Evolutionary Approaches to Peace Science Peace Science Roundtable Discussion: - Emerging Challenges to U.S. and Global Security

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...

This two-day event provides secondary educators the opportunity to participate in a forum on the complex and interdependent global economy. This year's Global Economic Forum focuses on classroom-ready activities to accompany the forum's content.

The ongoing process of globalization has heightened research and policy interest in the importance of external factors as drivers of the domestic inflationary process. Modern models of the inflationary process put the pricing decisions of firms at the core of the analysis. For firms that sell in...

"Will 2013 mark a new era for the global economy? The U.S. will see a new Congress - and possibly a new president. For better or for worse, a potentially smaller euro zone will have settled its debt crisis one way or another. And slumbering China and Brazil are expected to awake with a jolt and...

Each Spring, thousands of government officials, the private sector, journalists, academia, civil society representatives, and other interested observers gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF. At the heart of the gathering are meetings of the joint World...

For the ASE sessions at the 2013 ASSA meetings we welcome proposals for papers on all aspects of the evolving social nature of exchange. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Going local: Farmers' and other local markets re-personalize exchange - Community investment as a way to...