Presentation
World Economy Society is a scientific association founded within the First Meeting of World Economy celebrated at the University of Huelva in 1999. Within these 10 years this society has acquired an international dimension with the addition of members from different countries (Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Portugal, United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, Germany, Israel, Morocco...) and has increased its size surpassing the 250 members, among which there are university professors, researchers, entrepreneurs, consultants, advisors and international officials.
World Economy Society is publishing the scientific journal Revista de Economía Mundial (Journal of World Economy) since that same year, along with the Publications Service of the University of Huelva. This journal has achieved a great international prestige and is indexed in the most important international databases such as EBSCO Publishing, DOAJ, EconLit, Latindex, Ulrich's, CINDOC, Dialnet, Latindex, Social Sciences Citation Index and Journal Citation Report.
The World Economy Meeting, annually held by the World Economy Society, is an international forum opened to different economic approaches, where research works about world economy are presented and discussed. It is also a meeting place for discussion, emphasizing to all researchers, teachers, students and other professionals in the economy that focus on the global economy analysis.
After 11 World Economy Meetings (Huelva University, León University, San Pablo CEU University in Madrid, A Coruña University, Seville University, Extremadura University in Badajoz, Complutense University of Madrid, Alicante University, Autonomous University of Madrid, Barcelona University and Huelva University), the Society of World Economy accepted the proposal of the Faculty of Economics at Santiago de Compostela University to organize the 12th Meeting of World Economy.
The Meeting of World Economy XII will be held between 26 and 28 May 2010 at the Faculty of Economics at Santiago de Compostela University, and it will be an international conference which is expected to involve more than 100 researchers about world economy from different countries, mostly members of World Economy Society.
At this conference the main aspects of the world economy will be discussed, but placing a particular emphasis on the problems and the ways to overcome the global crisis; It will be topic of the speaker lectures, plenary sessions and parallel sessions. Other topics to be attended by the full conference will be the challenges of merchant shipping, the economic growth and the inequalities into world context.
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