"It is one of the features that the X'ers and the Y'ers and the millennials consider an expectation or an entitlement, not a luxury," Mr. Prendergast said at the gathering, which was hosted by the Citizens Budget Commission.
Fan's approach met some resistance from others attending the economists' gathering, which was hosted by the Brookings Institution and China's Economists 50 Committee, a group of practitioners from both the Chinese government and academia.
The world's international community is gathering for the UN general assembly, which is hosting a summit on refugees and migrants, and for a leaders' summit on the global refugee crisis, hosted by Barack Obama.
In simplest terms, the Jackson gathering — which was officially co-hosted by Governor Haley Barbour and Bennie Thompson, a black congressman from Mississippi — was a commemoration of a historical period, in the spirit of reconciliation and even apology.
The rest stayed away, despite fierce American pressure to go, because they believe that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process needs resurrecting from the dead, not underpinning.Morocco, which was host to the first economic gathering, and Bahrain, which is currently host to the American fleet in the Gulf, both refused the invitation.
South Korea is playing host to the biennial gathering, which was first convened by Mr. Obama two years ago in Washington and is devoted to preventing dangerous nuclear material, like highly enriched uranium, from falling into the hands of terrorist groups like Al Qaeda.
Lauren Windsor, a liberal blogger who hosts an online news program called "The Undercurrent," obtained audio recordings of the secret gathering, which was held at a resort near Laguna Beach, California.
The interfaith gathering, which is put on every year by the Louisville-based Center for Interfaithostlations, will host figures like Karen Armstrong, Pico Iyer, Vandana Shiva, Linda Sarsour and Jim Wallis for a long weekend of events centered on the theme "Sacred Wisdom: Pathways to Nonviolence".
In Biprohalsha village in Natore district, some 200 km north-west of Dhaka, the girls are hosting one of their twice-monthly gatherings which are part of UNICEF's adolescent empowerment project.
The gathering was hosted by Labour MP Fabian Hamilton, who is chair of the all party parliamentary group for Tibet.
The gathering was hosted by the International Association for the Study of Obesity and its policy group, the International Obesity TaskForce.
