Topics: - Quantification of the Impact of Reform - Short- vs. Long-Term Effects of Reform - Product and Labor Market Reform - Financial Sector Reform - EU Convergence and Reforms - Reforms and the Functioning of EMU - Distributional Consequences of Reform - Timing, Sequencing, and Clustering of...

Each spring, thousands of government officials, journalists, civil society organizations, and invited participants from the academia and private sectors, gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. At the heart of the gathering are...

East Asia continues to be the world’s economically fastest-growing region and its most populous. Projected to maintain an average growth rate above 7% in 2015, it boasts some of the world’s most prosperous economies such as Australia, China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. East Asia is...

The objective of the conference is to verify and assess the process of the building of market economies in Europe after 25 years, including lessons learnt from transition and focusing on the challenges lying ahead. Conference panels: - The foundation: monetary and exchange rate policy - Bricks...

The Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) each year bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty...

The theme of this year’s conference is “Investing in International Markets”. We invite academic paper submissions for the conference that examine the decision to invest in international markets by corporations, institutional or retail investors. As in past years, we aim to bring together a...

Key themes of the conference: - Identifying and measuring monetary policy spillovers - Implications for the international monetary system - Policy coordination issues

Topic: Sharing Prosperity, Delivering Results UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs and World Bank leaders discussed what it will take to boost income growth among the bottom 40%.

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...