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 Global Economic Symposium (GES) is meant to give a new impetus to global problem-solving. Our world has become increasingly interdependent and its problems—climate change, financial crisis, failed states, vicious cycles of poverty, educational deficits, unsustainable energy demands, water...

The Global Economic Symposium aims to identify global challenges, examine their policy and business implications, and formulate concrete action responses to them. The Symposium is divided into Themes and each theme covers several symposium Sessions. Each Session of the GES deals with a problem...

The overarching theme of the GES 2011 is “Reinventing Global Citizenship in a Multipolar World.” GES Themes: - The Global Economy (Redesigning Fiscal Consolidation and Debt Management; The Economics and Psychology of Building Sustainable Finance; Coping with Systemic Risk; Reinventing...

The Global Economic Symposium (GES) aims to provide a new collaborative setting to analyze the world’s most important economic problems, create shared visions of the future and formulate innovative strategies to achieve these visions. GES Themes: - The Global Economy - The Global Society - The...

Economists working in this field are invited to submit a paper or an abstract for presentation at the UCLA conference. Papers focusing on general equilibrium growth and models of large trading economies are welcome. The roles of global and regional trade patterns, foreign direct investment,...

Economists working in this field are invited to submit a paper or an abstract for presentation at the Manila conference. Papers focusing on the patterns and implications of international trade and foreign direct investment in a growing world economy, as well as the conditions under which nations...

Economists working in this field are invited to submit a paper or an abstract for presentation at the Sydney conference. Papers focusing on the determinants of the patterns of international trade, investment and migration in a growing world economy and on the conditions under which nations...