The Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Growth Network (PEGNet) Conference on Poor Countries, Poor People, and the New Global Players

The Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Growth Network (PEGNet) conference 2011 on poor countries, poor people, and the new global players will be held at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany, September 7 to 9, 2011.

The Conference will provide a platform for high-level dialogue between development researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. The conference days will feature parallel-sessions based on invited and contributed papers and project presentations. These will be complemented by a debate, a roundtable discussion, and keynote speeches by renowned speakers from academia, economic policy and development practice. Confirmed speakers include Justin Lin (World Bank), John Page (Brookings Institution), Rolf Langhammer (Kiel Institute), and Nancy Qian (Yale University).