- Event name
- WIDER Conference on Sharing Global Prosperity
- Address
- Helsinki, Finland
- Date
- 6 September 2003 - 7 September 2003
- Contact person
Issues
For the rich world it is a time of unprecedented prosperity, built on rising flows of finance, trade, and investment, spurred on by the revolution in information technology. Yet in the developing world millions of people continue to live in the direst poverty and global prosperity appears to have passed them by.
WIDER's international conference will focus on ways to increase the global economy's benefits to poor countries and poor people
Conference topics will include:
- innovative sources of development finance
- private capital flows & foreign aid
- international trade & foreign investment
- globalization's development impact
Publications arising from this conference: research page