The first World Congress on Communication for Development will focus on demonstrating that communication for development is an essential ingredient for meeting today’s most pressing development challenges and, as such, should be more fully integrated in development policy and practice.

Thematic Areas: • Economics • Political Philosophy • Epistemology • Methodology • Readings on the Austrian School of Economics

The Benchmarking Forum includes three workshops in which the impact of industry-specific SWOT analyses on economic strategies of regions will be major discussion points: - Regions as Technology and Life Sciences Locations - Metropolitan Regions with Financial Centres - Governance (policies) and...

Topics: Muslims in Europe Europeans in the Islamic world, 13th to 18th centuries European policies and rivalries for economic supremacy in the Islamic World and the islamic reactions (Africa and the Middle East). Nature and volume of the commercial relationship between Europe and islamic...