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 consisted of:

• Murtaza Syed (Economist)
• Shanta Devarajan (Economist, Professor of the Practice of Development at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service)
• Ahmad Ahsan (Director, Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh)
• Ijaz Nabi (Executive Director CDPR, Country Director IGC, Pakistan)
• Hadia Majid (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, LUMS)

Find the Programme Agenda here.

Watch the Session Here.