Today’s Inflation: Global Context and Local Solutions

A New World Bank/GDLN AP Seminar Series

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008

This seminar will be repeated to 2 country groups over 2 days.
See complete listing for locations and times in each country.

As inflation climbs to uncomfortable levels across East Asia, economic managers are faced with a new and traumatizing challenge: How can available management tools be deployed to address today’s inflation? What economic interventions can be used in a complementary manner to mitigate adverse effects on the welfare of low income and other specific groups?

These and other topical questions will be examined in “Today’s Inflation:  Global Context and Local Solutions”, the first in a series of distance learning seminars focusing on Economic Management offered by the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) Asia Pacific and organized with the support of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

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Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Asia

A Collaborative Research Project

Throughout 2008

Four Japanese institutions—the Building Research Institute (BRI), National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and Mie University—are conducting a research project on Disaster Mitigation in Earthquake Prone Areas in Asia with research institutions across the region, using the GDLN as a platform to strengthen the network and facilitate collaboration.

Hitotsubashi University Asian Public Policy Program Reunion

Alumni Strengthen Network via GDLN

Since 2006

Hitotsubashi University’s Asian Public Policy Program (APPP) has been using the GDLN to forge ties among alumni across Asia. In a virtual reunion, current master degree students, PhD candidates and faculty at the TDLC are joined by alumni in Beijing, Manila, Jakarta, Hanoi and other locations to discuss recent policy issues in Asia.

The APPP is an international program launched in the year 2000 with an emphasis on economic policy management. Each year, it accepts young professionals from Asia who wish to pursue careers in the public sector, and serves as a center for knowledge exchange between academic researchers, …

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