This new edition of the Lisbon conference aims to bring together large numbers of researchers, policy makers for a review of the Lisbon Strategy, and a debate on the economic crisis and the prospects or a “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. The conference will cover areas of applied...

Forum Sessions: - Developments and trends in social security - Demographic challenges - Governance and management - Extension of social security coverage - Focus on Africa - Social Security Summit

The different topics take into account the main factors (economic, geographic, social, political, technical, cultural etc.) influencing the localization and globalization of food production and the consequences in terms of sustainability and consumer welfare. The first topic analyses what is...

Minsky's question of how to stabilise an unstable economy is obviously of renewed importance today. But are the present policies merely stabilising an unsustainable accumulation regime based on income polarisation and the dominance of financial markets? What are the economic and political...

The theme of 2010 conference is ‘Agriculture and the Wealth of Nations’, aiming to explore the importance of agriculture as well as the relationship and interaction between agriculture and the whole economy. Topics: - Agriculture and the Macro-economy - Agriculture and Economic Development -...

With a forward-looking perspective, this International Policy and Research Conference will aim to: - Identify the new demographic context which encompasses, among other things, the challenges of an evolving life-cycle and of increasing migration - Analyse the consequences of the current...

We invite submission of papers particularly addressing the following themes: 1) assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity conservation instruments, taking into account spatial considerations and/or governance settings; 2) the development of new, incentive-based instruments...

Im ersten Jahrzehnt des 21. Jahrhunderts ist eine rasante Schwerpunktverschiebung der Weltwirtschaft zu den Schwellenländern zu beobachten, vor allem zugunsten der wachstums-starken Bevölkerungsgiganten China und Indien. Der OECD-Report Global Perspectives on Development 2010 diskutiert unter...

The conference provides an opportunity for academicians, PhD students and professionals in social and environmental accounting to present their research projects, to discuss their preliminary findings and full paper in a supportive and interactive atmosphere.

In 2010, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre’s (CPRC) ten years of poverty research will be celebrated with this mega-conference. The conference aims at bringing together leading researchers on poverty in an attempt to understand and synthesize the contemporary ‘state of the art’ in...