The world is becoming global village and one after the other initiatives are being taken that indicate that the world wants to become one. After the establishment of WTO another landmark decision was taken by the world community. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000 the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets, with a deadline of 2015, that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s. Responding to the world's main development challenges and to the calls of civil society, the MDGs promote poverty reduction, education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality, AIDS and other diseases.

The Conference is being organized to provide a platform to researchers and academicians, bureaucrats and politicians, industry captains and social workers to come together and share there experiences and research. The following are the more specific objectives:

• to deliberate on the challenges and perspectives of the MDGs of the United Nations;
• to provide a forum for sharing the achievements made so far with regard to the 8 goals and 18 targets complemented by 48 technical indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals;
• to learn lessons from the half way journey made so far from 2000 to 2008 and how the second half till 2015 can be made better to achieve the MDGs;
• to share insights into best practices in each of the 8 goals so that others can derive benefit from the same.
• to learn from research in the area of MDGs and other important contemporary areas of management;
• to make recommendations to the policy makers and other interested stakeholders so that MDGs can be achieved as per the plan.

Themes of the first 9 annual conferences:
2000     International Business : Challenges and Perspectives
2001     Human Dimensions in the Information Age
2002     Technology Convergence – The Human Perspective
2003     Management And Technology – Vision 2020
2004     Learning Beyond Borders in WTO Regime
2005     Borderless World : Emerging Dimensions for Business
2006     Destination India
2007     India: Investment Destination
2008     Management of Transformation

If you are interested in the topics of the forthcoming conference to be held in Hungary, please browse the website for further details.