Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2005

Description

The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics is one of the

world’s most popular arrangement of meetings for the introduction and conversation of new

information on advancement. It is an open door for huge numbers of the world’s best improvement scholars to introduce viewpoints and thoughts. In 1999, in acknowledgment of

Europe’s significant job in the arrangement of improvement help and so as to bring

the World Bank’s exploration on improvement into close contact with European viewpoints, the World Bank made an unmistakably European stage for banter on

advancement issues.

The 6th Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics in Europe

was held in Brussels, Belgium, on May 10–11, 2004. The meeting was co-sorted out by the Office of the Prime Minister of Belgium and the Ministry of Development Cooperation of Belgium. The topic of the gathering was “Doha, Monterrey,

what’s more, Johannesburg: Are We on Track?”

The meeting opened with addresses given by Jean-François Rischard, the

World Bank’s Vice President for Europe; Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister, Belgium;

what’s more, Marc Verwilghen, Minister for Development Cooperation, Belgium. Their

comments were trailed by an initial discourse by François Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, World Bank, and a keynote address by Joseph E.

Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate and Professor, Columbia University. Four papers were introduced on exchange streams, human capital streams, capital streams, and help streams.