Theme: New Thinking for a New World: Reimagining Globalization and Development
Sub-theme: Institutions, Inequality, and Sustainability in the Future of Global Development
Project Overview
This project is the maiden edition of The Emerging Scholars Conference (ESC) — a pioneering initiative to provide a dynamic academic platform for doctoral and early-career researchers, with final-stage PhD candidates being the hosts based on their doctoral theses. This edition’s theme critically engages with the dynamics of globalization and poverty in developing countries.
The conference is aimed to be an assembly of early-career and established researchers as well as think-tank analysts to explore and discuss institutions, inequalities, poverty, sustainability, and pluralist approaches to global development, with various thematic tracks and panel discussions carefully crafted with close alignment with the YSI Development Economics working group research questions.
About the Conference
The global economy currently stands at a complex and defining crossroads, with shifting geopolitical alliances, technological disruptions, polycrisis, deepening inequalities, and pressing demands for sustainability, all of which are reshaping how nations integrate into the world and develop. The proposed conference themed “New Thinking for a New World: Reimagining Globalization and Development”is targeted at inviting young and established scholars as well as think-tank analysts to rethink traditional paradigms of global interconnectedness and development pathways through fresh, interdisciplinary, and pluralistic perspectives. The conference will seek to explore how institutions,
Theme: New Thinking for a New World: Reimagining Globalization and Development
Sub-theme: Institutions, Inequality, and Sustainability in the Future of Global Development
Project Overview
This project is the maiden edition of The Emerging Scholars Conference (ESC) — a pioneering initiative to provide a dynamic academic platform for doctoral and early-career researchers, with final-stage PhD candidates being the hosts based on their doctoral theses. This edition’s theme critically engages with the dynamics of globalization and poverty in developing countries.
The conference is aimed to be an assembly of early-career and established researchers as well as think-tank analysts to explore and discuss institutions, inequalities, poverty, sustainability, and pluralist approaches to global development, with various thematic tracks and panel discussions carefully crafted with close alignment with the YSI Development Economics working group research questions.
About the Conference
The global economy currently stands at a complex and defining crossroads, with shifting geopolitical alliances, technological disruptions, polycrisis, deepening inequalities, and pressing demands for sustainability, all of which are reshaping how nations integrate into the world and develop. The proposed conference themed “New Thinking for a New World: Reimagining Globalization and Development” is targeted at inviting young and established scholars as well as think-tank analysts to rethink traditional paradigms of global interconnectedness and development pathways through fresh, interdisciplinary, and pluralistic perspectives. The conference will seek to explore how institutions, governance, and policy innovations can foster inclusive and sustainable development across the world in an era marked by heightened uncertainty and transition. By bridging insights from economics, political science, environmental and development studies, management, and digital transformation, this event aims to generate intense academic dialogue that will challenge orthodox models and thinking and advance new trajectories for equitable and swift global development. Through keynote sessions, panel discussions, and collaborative exchanges (presentations), participants will examine how reimagined global frameworks can help achieve shared prosperity, institutional resilience, and sustainability in the decades ahead.
Thematic tracks
Empirical, theoretical, and policy-targeted papers that engaged with the following thematic tracks are invited for presentation at the conference:
- Rethinking Globalization and Development
- Macroenvironmental dynamics in globalization-development outcomes nexus: A new pathway to sustainable development
- The future of increasing fragmented globalization: Implications of global value chains for trade resilience and development outcomes
- Financial globalization and the reconfiguration of global North-South relations: Implications of capital flows for emerging market vulnerabilities
- Public-private infrastructure investment partnership for inclusive growth and sustainable development
- Measuring and understanding multidimensional poverty in a globalized world
- Climate finance, adaptation, and resilience in a new world of the Global South
- Clean technologies and green growth: Sustainable development pathways
- Institutions, Governance, Inclusive Growth, and Social Protection/Inclusion
- Institutional quality, governance, and economic transformation
- The political economy of inequality and development in the Global South
- Extractive vs inclusive institutions in developing countries
- The role of institutional reforms in fostering sustainable development
- Globalization, labour market, income inequality, and public health
- Redistribution, social protection, and inclusive policy design
- Effect of epidemic and endemic diseases on poverty and human development
- Uncertainty, Risk, and Global Crisis
- Economic policy uncertainty, geopolitical risks, and development outcomes
- The polycrisis era: lessons for resilience and reforms
- Global shocks, financial stability, and poverty outcomes
- The role of digital transformation and innovation in crisis response
- Digitalization, Innovation, and Future of Work
- The digital divide and inclusive technological transformation
- Automation, artificial intelligence, and labour market disruptions
- Digital finance, digital innovation, financial inclusion, and development outcomes
- Innovation ecosystems and economic diversification
Panel Discussion Session
Reimagining Development Economics
- Pluralism and heterodox approaches to global development
- New frontiers in development theory and practice
- Interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to economic inquiry
- Emerging methodologies in economic and development research
