Policy Evaluation Institute to Host International Symposium on the 20th-21st

The Policy Evaluation Research Institute (PERI) will hold an international symposium at COEX in Seoul on the 20th and 21st.

Under the theme "Policy Evaluation, Opening a New Horizon," the event will host 15 world-renowned scholars from the United States, Japan, Singapore, and other countries to share their insights on policy fields.

In the session "The Development Process and Future of Policy Evaluation Research," An Jong-beom, Director of PERI, Richard Burkhauser, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, and Douglas Besharov, Professor at the University of Maryland, will present.

In the "Welfare Policy Evaluation" session, Timothy Smeeding, Professor at the University of Wisconsin, will present on "Research on Poverty Policy and Its Effects Using Multinational Data and Analysis," and Hong Kyung-jun, Professor of Social Welfare at Sungkyunkwan University, will present on "Past and Present Research on the Evaluation of Korea's Income Security Policy."

In the "Tax and Fiscal Policy Evaluation" session, Alan Auerbach, Chair Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Toshihiro Ihori, Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan, will present on tax and fiscal policies in the United States and Japan. Additionally, evaluations of financial industry policies and real estate and urban policies will also take place.

The Policy Evaluation Research Institute is a private research institute established in May last year by former Blue House Policy Coordination Secretary An Jong-beom, aiming to be Korea's version of the Brookings Institution.

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