The overall theme of the conference is "Framing the future through the Sustainable Development Goals" with subthemes on: - Technology, wages and growth - The changing architecture of trade policies - Energy transformation—winners and losers - Challenges to achieving the sustainable development...

The overall theme of the conference is "Global Economic Analysis in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities" with subthemes on: - Sustainable Development, - Climate change policies and adaptation, - Whither regionalism in the absence of a global trade agreement? - Agricultural innovation,...

Growth and Comparative Economic Development - Oded Galor (Brown University) Structure of the Course: Day 1: - Lecture I: From Stagnation to Growth: An overview - Lecture II: The Malthusian Epoch Day 2: - Lecture I: Theories of the Demographic Transition - Lecture II: Unified Growth Theory and...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses selected empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

The conference will cover various aspects of the question “how to promote growing prosperity that is socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable” and explore their interconnectedness. Topics: - Growth & Prosperity - Environmental Sustainability - Social inclusiveness & Inequality