This year, the conference focused on Governance and Inclusion, with importance to climate justice, education and policy, digital innovation and economic development, market systems, social transformation, resilience and sustainability. It also covered a range of issues such as macroeconomic research, and political economy.

CDPR and the International Growth Center (IGC) organized a Panel session Addressing External Vulnerabilities in South Asia on day 2 of the conference. It explored Inequalities and Social Justice, through key issues in health and immunization, the historical trajectory in economic development, poverty alleviation, education and development, and a comparison of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh’s socioeconomic growth trajectories.

The panel consists of:

• Murtaza Syed
• Shanta Devarajan
• Ahmad Ahsan
• Ijaz Nabi
• Hadia Majid

Find the Programme Agenda here.