The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) held its Ninth Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) from 13— 15 December 2006 in Islamabad , Pakistan . Each SDC is designed to be a forum for sharing and exchanging dialogues on sustainable development with practitioners, civil society and policy-makers. The overarching theme of the SDPI's Ninth SDC is “Missing Links in Sustainable Development (SD): South Asian Perspectives”.

SDPI’s conference anthology At the Crossroads: South Asian Research, Policy and Development in a Globalized World was launched on 13 December 2006 at the occasion of the Ninth SDC. more....