"The theme for the 2013 Annual Meeting is 'Brilliantly Disguised Opportunities' -- focusing on understanding the many challenges on higher education's horizon and seeing them as opportunities in disguise."

Sessions will cover the following (preliminary) list of themes: - Industry and Growth: What’s New? - Deindustrialization in Africa: What Went Wrong and Why? - Breaking-in: Can Africa Enter Global Markets? - Industrial Development and Infrastructure: How Large a Constraint? - Industrial...

We look forward to receiving papers which relate to any economic or international business issues concerning the emerging market countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central/East Asia, including the role of institutional change (transition), both at country and international level.