List of Sessions: 1. Transnational Production of Urban Space: Convergent City Forms? 2. Urban Polarization 3. Marginalization and Inequality in Globalizing Cities of Developing Countries 4. Promoting Sustainable Urbanization in Developing Countries 5. Migration Networks in Asia: Their Processes,...

Fast growing economies of China and India have occupied the centre stage of global policy discussions and debates over the last few years. Given the phenomenal worldwide interest these nations have generated among academicians, policy makers and governments in recent times, the conference plans...

The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical issues. Possible topics include: - Financial market imperfections and business cycle fluctuations - Corporate finance and macroeconomic stability - Credit and the housing market - Banking...

The interpenetration of democracy and the economy has been subject to longstanding suspicions, on both sides. Economists frequently decry what they regard as ill-conceived interventions into the market from populist politicians. For their part, political scientists are often concerned about the...

Main Theme: “Globalization, Liberalization, Informatization and Human Behavior" Topics: 1. Theory of Economic Policy 2. Public Finance and Fiscal policy 3. Monetary and Financial Policy 4. Growth, Development and Population Policy 5. Industrial Organization and Industrial Structural Policy 6....

The conference focuses on the possible contribution of towns to rural development by acting as a place of knowledge creation and diffusion in order to avoid processes of decline and promote a geographically balanced and sustainable development in rural areas. An important question related to...

Topics: • Cuba-Europe relations: half century of approaches and dissents. • The European Union Treaty: ratification and implications. • The Enlarged EU. Its impact in the political and economical contemporary international relations. • Convergence and Cohesion: the Socio-economic...

In this 1st International Forum on Insularity in the Mediterranean the main focus areas will be four especially sensitive issues for island territories: agriculture and industry, tourism, transportation and communications and global change.

For the 2nd Halle Forum in 2008 the organisers are planning to bring together scholars dealing with development problems of cities in de-industrialised regions with a special reference to post-transition economies. Colleagues from CEE countries are particularly welcome. The special topic of the...

The conference is open to academic works concerning emerging economies, with a special attention given to the way the dynamic paths of development interact with the Globalization of economies and to the contradictions and the new challenges it brings with it. Topics: Growth and income...