As part of the continuing effort of capacity building in policy making in the area of pensions, the World Bank is pleased to announce a Regional Conference on Pension Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa. The objective of the conference is to provide the participating countries with an...

The main objective of this conference is to share information on promising experiences with higher education reform across the Asian and Pacific Island and South Asian countries that emphasize ways of ensuring the quality of higher education outcomes, but also the importance of improving system...

Objective and topics: The European banking sector and financial system have evolved greatly over the last decade. Fundamental changes include the adoption of new technology in the provision of banking services, disintermediation, financial liberalisation, the emergence of new financial...

This conference will provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues regarding alternative options central banks face when defining their price stability objective. Research papers on the optimal level of inflation; on the zero bound on nominal...

Topics: • Payments and monetary stability • Payments and the macroeconomy • Systemic risk in payments • The future of payments • Recent developments in market infrastructure • Recent developments in payment economics • The role of central banks in payments

The course explores key elements in designing efficient, equitable and financially sustainable population policies and reproductive health programs in the context of health sector reform and Millennium Development Goals. After attending the course, participants learn to recognize how the...

The main purpose of the CReCER Conference is to create greater awareness of the importance of sound accounting and auditing practices for economic development. The conference will also take stock of the various initiatives that have been undertaken over the recent period to strengthen accounting...

This course will present the methodology of econometric estimation of economic efficiency. We will examine the stochastic frontier model as an econometric extension of the classical microeconomic theory of production and cost at the individual producer level. Basic models for production, cost...

What are the likely employment effects of the new tax credit policies? How might road user charges alter patterns of transport use? Can a change in the provision of pensions affect the decision to retire? How much do policy reforms cost? To what extent are initial costs reduced through...

This three day course will study the specification, estimation, and application of discrete choice models. We will examine theoretical background and practical application of up to date and frontier techniques in the analysis of microeconometric models for discrete data. Actual studies will be...