Lisbon, Portugal
9 – 13 September, 2002

Generous subsidies from Unesco, the World Bank and the European Commission and international organisations...

• Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission
• Nicholas Stern, Chief Economist at the World Bank” Meeting the Challenge of Monterey”
• Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich, “ Human Nature and Social Interaction- When do Deviations from Homo  
  Oeconomicus Matter ? “
• William Easterly, Center for Global Development “ The Elusive Quest for Growth “
• Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town, “What have we learnt about Contemporary South Africa from a small Household Panel Study ?"
• Takatoshi Ito, University of Tokyo, “ Debt, Deflation and Declining Growth: New Challenges of the Japanese Economy”
• David Canning, University of Belfast, “ Geography and Poverty Traps”
• Edmond Malinvaud , INSEE, Paris “ Structural Reforms addressed to the Labour Market and Macroeconomic Policies”
• Jean Tirole, IDEI, Toulouse “Psychology and Economics”
• Gilles Saint Paul, IDEI , Toulouse “Thoughts on Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Timing of Structural Reforms
• Hans Gersbach, University of Heidelberg “Structural reforms and the Macroeconomy: the Role of General Equilibrium Effects”
• Alan Deardorff, University of Michigan, “The Past and the Future of the European Union”
• Arjan Lejour and Richard Nahuis, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, “The Costs and
  Benefits of the EU Enlargement: An analysis of the Internal Market and Structural Funds”
• Michel Boldrin, University of Minnesota, “ EU and Enlargement and Economic Growth”
• E.M. Graham, Institute for International Economics, “Foreign Direct Investment; its effects on Economic
• Growth and Host Country Policy”
• Ercan Uygur, University of Ankara “ The two-tier Crises in Turkey and the Aftermath”
• Victor Becker, University of Buenos-Aires, “Economics as Science, a Discussion of some Methodological Issues”
• Oded Stark, University of Bonn & University of Vienna “Overlapping”
• Jose de Gregorio, Bank of Chile, “The Role of Direct Foreign Investment and Natural Resources in Economic Development”
• Ashoka Mody, International Monetary Fund, “ Is Foreign Direct Investment Integrating the World ?”

1. One special invited session organised by the Global Development Network on “Growth in Developing and Transition Countries”

• Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Virginia Tech and Sergei Guriev, New Economics School, Moscow
• Hadi Salehi Esfahani, University of Illinois and Micael Castanheira, ECARES, Brussels
• Janet Mitchell, National Bank of Belgium and Stepan Jurajda, CERGEI, Prague
• Jongil Kim, Dongguk University, Seoul and Charles Soludo, African Institute for Applied Economics, Enugu, Nigeria

2. One special invited session organised by the European Development Research Network on “Poverty Dynamics and Insurance”

• Johannes Jitting - Center for Development Research, Bonn
• Pramilla Krishnan – Cambridge University
• Jan Willem Gunning – Free University of Amsterdam
• Stefan Dercon, Oxford University

3. Fifty four parallel sessions with 200 contributed papers covering all areas of economics

IEA conference On Globalisation and Labour Markets
at the University of Nottingham, UK

The Centre for Globalisation and Labour Markets (GLM), based at the University of Nottingham in the UK, hosted a conference on the theme of "Globalisation and Labour Markets" in July 2000. GLM was delighted to welcome a distinguished group of economists from around the world.

Copies of all the papers presented can be found on our web site at
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/iea

It should be reminded that this congress was first planned to take place in Lima, Peru, in 1998. But, unfortunately, this did not prove possible. Taking into account of the situation, the congress had to be postponed to 1999.

Finally it has been possible to organise the Congress in Buenos Aires thanks to the generous grant given by the Central Bank of Argentina and to the considerable efforts made by Enrique Bour, former President of the "Asociacion Argentina de Economia Politica", in raising the suitable funding locally.

The Congress was hosted by the "Asociacion Argentina de Economia Politica" (AAEP) who was in charge of its organisation. All practical arrangements have been co-ordinated by an organising committee placed under the direction of Enrique Bour (chairman) and the late Rolf Mantel (vice-chairman). Furthermore, a considerable amount of work has been devoted to co-ordinating arrangements, both from the scientific and organisational point of view, in close liaison with the IEA President, Jacques Dreze, Secretary General, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, David de la Croix (chairman of the programme committee), programme committee members and the local organising committee.

David de la Croix and Enrique Bour

The scientific programme of the Congress combined invited lectures, with parallel sessions on "Macroeconomics" organised by Jacques Drèze and "Inequality" organised by Richard Freeman of Harvard University and the London School of Economics;

Report on the Twelfth World Congress of the International Economic Association
Buenos- Aires, Argentina 23-27 August 1999

The Twelfth Word Congress of the International Economic Association (IEA) took place in Buenos Aires, at the invitation of the Asociacion Argentina de Economia Politica (AAEP). Professor Enrique Bour, chairman of the Organizing Committee, has been responsible for the logistics and successful implementation of the Congress.

The IEA is most grateful to the AAEP, the Central Bank of Argentina and other sources in Argentina who generously agreed to ensure most of the funding of the Congress.

Generous subsidies were also provided by (in alphabetical order):

Asian Development Bank
European Investment Bank
Inter-American Development Bank
International Bank For Reconstruction And Development
UNESCO/ISSC
World Bank

The five days Congress program consisted of:

• two plenary sessions those by Jacques Drèze (CORE, Belgium) and Joseph Stiglitz (The World Bank).

• thirty three lectures were delivered, covered by two major topics:

	"Global Inequality. Where are we and where are we headed?" with a program arranged by Richard Freeman (Harvard, USA) with lectures on the global perspective, the developed world and the developing countries.
"Advances in Macroeconomics" arranged by Jacques H. Dreze (CORE, Belgium) with lectures on growth, fluctuation, money, the expectations revolution, employment and institutions, monetary unions and macroeconomics development.

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• one special panel as homage to Rolf Mantel with 4 speakers

• one special panel on the Argentine economy with 3 speakers

• seventy eight parallel sessions with 310 contributed papers covering all areas of economics

The opening session was delivered by Jacques H. Drèze, President of the International Economic Association: "On the Macroeconomics of Uncertainty and Incomplete markets", and the closing session was given in homage to Michael Bruno by Joseph Stiglitz of the World Bank " Is there a Workable Macroeconomic paradigm for LDC'S".

The choice of the contributed papers and the organization of the sessions were the responsibility of a Program Committee, composed of 28 members. 549 papers were submitted, on the final program were 310 contributed papers. Those taking part were drawn from 52 countries.

The full list of the Program Committee is as follows:

More than 1300 participants registered, coming from 54 countries. Argentina (with about 800 registrations), USA, France, UK, Belgium and India were the most represented countries.

Three congress volumes are to be published by Macmillan:

- "Macroeconomics"
- "Inequality"
- "Latin American Economic Issues"