The Swedish Government and the World Bank
invite you to the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics

Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World
May 31 - June 2, 2010
Clarion Hotel Sign, Stockholm, Sweden

The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) aims at promoting debate on current development issues by bringing together researchers, decision-makers and practitioners from all over the world. The ABCDE is one of the world's best known series of conferences for the presentation of new knowledge on development. The conference is
being co-organised by the World Bank and the Government of Sweden.

This year's ABCDE will take place in Stockholm, Sweden. The overall theme of the conference is: Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World. Plenary session themes include: Environmental Commons and the Green Economy, Post-Crisis Debates on Development Strategy, The Political Economy of Fragile States, New Ways of Measuring
Welfare, Social Issues/Human Development/Safety Nets.

Key speakers will include:

Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University
Tony Atkinson, Oxford University
Partha Dasgupta, Cambridge University
Eric Maskin, Princeton University
James Mirrlees, Cambridge University
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University
Torsten Persson, IIES, Stockholm University
Robert Solow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University

Date: May 31 - June 2, 2010
Venue: Clarion Hotel Sign, Östra Järnvägsgatan 35, Stockholm

For more information about the conference and registration, please visit:
http://econ.worldbank.org/abcde/sweden2010. Registration closes on May 3. Please note
that the number of participants is limited.

There is no conference fee but you are required to pay for your own accommodation, travel,
food and other living expenses (apart from meals included in the program).