The subject of the conference is "The World in an Ever Changing Environment." Topics: Sustainable Development; Globalization; Spatial Input-Output (IO) Modeling; IO and Comparative Advantage; IO and New Economic Geography; Economic-Ecological IO Modeling; Models of the World Economy; IO and...

High commodity prices, favourable financial conditions and the hard-won economic reforms of the 1990s boosted regional economic growth to an average of 5% in the past years, with low inflation and strong current account surpluses. Besides dealing with the international financial turbulence and...