This international forum will certainly be a privileged moment to recognize the increasing importance of the social and solidarity economy in the development strategies of countries in the South and in the North. The creation of public policy in favour of its development has accelerated in Latin...

ADAPT and UNAM – National Autonomous University of Mexico invite professors, researchers, doctoral students, experts, practitioners and all those interested in the conference topics, from the perspectives of multiple disciplines – including, but not limited to, economics, sociology,...

Three six-day courses will provide flexible, advanced and accelerated training in Development Policy Modelling, Poverty Measurement and Analysis and Statistical Monitoring of Development.

Conference themes: 1. Governance; crime and violence prevention 2. Evaluating responses to shocks 3. Labor markets (including child labor), pensions, migration, and remittances 4. Urban development 5. Health and nutrition; HIV/AIDS 6. Demand-and supply-side incentive 7. Support to diversifying...

Program: - Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa - The School Reentry Decision of Poor Girls. Structural Estimation and Policy Analysis Using PROGRESA Database - Do Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Improve Work and Earnings among its Youth Beneficiaries? Evidence after a...

CSWEP is a subcommittee of the American Economics Association charged with addressing the status of women in the economics profession. It publishes a three-times-a-year newsletter, organizes sessions at the annual meetings of the AEA and the regional economics associations, runs mentoring...

The TOM network invites the submission of original papers on various topics in the field of migration research. Papers can come from various research disciplines, and can focus on empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented topics. These include: • Migrants' transnational practices and families...

The IAOS Conference Ottawa 2006 has adopted as its principal theme the subject People on the Move: Measuring Environmental, Social and Economic Impacts Within and Between Nations. The conference focuses on issues associated with measuring these aspects.

The Fair Trade and Sustainable Development colloquium aims to explore the contributions and limits of Fair Trade from the perspective of the social, economic and environmental goals of sustainable development. The goal of the conference is to continue the analysis begun at the first...