The Summit on the Global Agenda is the world’s largest brainstorming event, bringing together the most relevant thought leaders of the World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils. Comprised of more than 80 groups of experts from academia, business, civil society, international...

Ukraine has reached a critical turning point in its economic development. As the country weighs the long-term benefits of its economic orientation and devises new strategies for the future, major shifts are taking place in the global economy that will reshape opportunities and challenges for...

Russia’s economic growth is embedded in a complex global and regional context. Regional champions within Russia are increasingly active in advancing new ideas and innovative models of development. In order to maximize this potential, public and private sector stakeholders need to analyse best...

Mongolia is currently one of the world’s fastest growing economies, with GDP growth for 2013 forecasted to be between 14-16%. The country is benefiting from a booming mining industry, which is still far from realizing its full potential, and the government has strong ambitions to use this...

Topics: - Energy and Resources - Health - Information Technology and Telecommunications - Infrastructure and Urban Development - Manufacturing - Mobility - Science and Technology Participation in these meetings is by invitation only.

Papers from economists and researches from other disciplines working on issues of language policy are solicited. The following is a non-exhaustive list of possible specific themes of individual contributions: - languages and economic efficiency (e.g. languages in the labor market, language as a...

Among the main questions to be addressed are: - Financing new infrastructures in the international debt and post-financial crisis era - Global comparison of different infrastructure roll-out and maintenance approaches including historical analysis - Analysing regulatory barriers to collaboration...

Topics: - Evaluating the effectiveness of policy instruments regarding the achievement of environmental targets - Assessments of environmental policies regarding their effects on economic welfare indicators - How to create sets of instruments with synergetic effects and how to avoid sets with...

Questions to be addressed in the workshop include: - What drives carbon prices? Is there evidence that firms reduced emissions relative to a business-as-usual scenario? Has the EU ETS induced the development new technologies, and/or the adoption of existing technology? - What is the relationship...

This workshop will investigate the determinants and evolution of gender gaps, by focusing on two promising prospects: the institutional design, which –if appropriately set- can allow different outcomes to reflect only differences in abilities rather than in gender, as shown for instance in...