The XV April International Conference on Economic and Social Development
The conference opens on the 1st April 2014 at the HSE with the participation of the World Bank and the IMF. The Deputy Chairman of the Conference Programme Committee Andrei Yakovlev spoke about some of the key sessions, lectures and seminars to look out for.
The Importance of a Good Diagnosis
Sebastian Galiani, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and Visiting Professor at Universidad de San Andres, will deliver a public lecture at the HSE’s XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. In advance of next week's Conference, the HSE News Service conducted this brief interview with Professor Galiani.
Video Interviews with Conference Participants
In a series of video interviews for the HSE news service some key speakers of the XIV HSE April International Academic Conference shared their views on global economic and social development.
‘To Keep our Position We Need to Improve Very Fast’
Alexander Shokhin, President of the HSE, in his interview at the XIV HSE April Conference spoke about barriers and prospects for the investment climate in Russia.
‘Science Can Help to Bring Countries Together in Different Ways’
Professor Jonathan Linton, Power Corporation Professor for the Management of Technological Enterprise of the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Technovation‘ journal spoke on ‘Centers of Excellence. Research Strategy and Portfolio Planning’ at the XIV HSE April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. He gave a special interview to the HSE news service.
What Does Political Activism Depend on?
Well developed telecommunications, and population density increase the chances of people taking part in public protests. Bad weather, poor salaries and the repressive habits of the authorities decrease them. So Anton Sobolev reported his findings to the XIV April Conference at HSE.
Close Cooperation between the HSE and Halle Institute
Philipp Marek, scientific researcher in Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany, and participant of the XIV HSE April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development gave an interview for the HSE news service.
‘Efficient Harvesting of Solar Energy Will Be as Dramatic as the Discovery of Extra-Terrestrial Life’
On April 3, 2013, Panos M. Pardalos, Academic Supervisor of the HSE Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis in Nizhny Novgorod, Professor at the University of Florida, USA, gave an honorary lecture on ‘Optimization and Modeling in Energy Networks’ as part of the XIV HSE April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.
Second Plenary Session of the XIV HSE April Conference: The Social Sphere in Search of Money and Ideas
The second day of the XIV HSE April Conference started with a plenary session on ‘Institutions and New Social Policy’. Problems of education, healthcare, and the labour market were discussed by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov, the Russian Minister of Education and Science Dmitri Livanov, Professor Simon Marginson of the University of Melbourne, and Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
Russia Is Emerging as a True Eurasian Power
Russia's collaboration with the countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and Asia in general, was the central theme of the session ‘Integration Processes as a Resource for Internal and External Development’.