Welcome to the United Nations
The annual UN/DESA Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy (also known as the Project LINK Meeting) starts today in New York and will lead off with a discussion on the world economic outlook facilitated by Peter H. Pauly, Vice-Dean and Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto; Juan Francisco Yepez-Albornoz of the International Monetary Fund; Marc Stocker of the World Bank, and Pingfan Hong, Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division in UN/DESA.
This year's three-day meeting will include presentations by a wide range of participants from academia, economic research institutions and international economic organizations including Kanemi Ban of Kochi University of Technology in Japan, Gregory Daco of Oxford Economics, Pavlos Karadeloglou of the European Central Bank and David Turner of the OECD. United Nations colleagues from the regional commissions of ECA, ECE, ECLAC, ESCAP and ESCWA will also be on hand to present the issues and outlook for their respective regions.
Project LINK is an international collaborative research group for econometric modelling, coordinated jointly by the Development Policy and Analysis Division of UN/DESA and the University of Toronto. Inputs from the meeting will be incorporated in the flagship publication, World Economic Situation and Prospects 2015, to be released in January 2015.
