Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2000Boris Pleskovic, Nicholas Stern World Bank Publications, 2001 - 441 pages The 'Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics' is a global gathering of scholars and practitioners of development policy including participants from government, private sector, and academia. The 12th annual conference, held in April 2000, focused mainly on four areas: new development thinking, crises and recovery, corporate governance and restructuring, and social security including public and private savings. This conference emphasizes the contribution that empirical and basic economic research can make to the understanding of development processes and to formulating development policies. This book is the collection of conference papers from this forum. |
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