The symposium brings together policy makers, academics and business leaders to the INSEAD Middle East Campus in Abu Dhabi to share and discuss the latest cutting edge evidence on entrepreneurship and decent jobs in the MENA region.

The aim of the conference is to bring together policy makers and researchers to discuss developments in counterfactual methods applied to the impact evaluation of policy interventions, with a focus on EU employment and social policies.

Topics include (but are not limited to): - Earnings inequality and workers’ well-being - Precarious versus stable jobs - Informality and job quality - Innovative ways to measure the quality of the work environment - The impact of early entry into the labor market on job quality - Gender...

The Conference theme is: "Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and education". We invite you to submit an abstract in the range of the following streams within the ICSD2016 program: 1. Economic Sustainability: Financial Sustainability, SME,...

We welcome economic or econometric contributions on the following and related issues: - National safety as a public good - Strategic behavior and credible commitments (initiated by Thomas Schelling) - The theory of conflicts (initiated by Gordon Tullock, Jack Hirshleifer and Kai Konrad) - Theory...

In many societies, a large fraction of the population is involved in philanthropic activities like charitable giving or volunteering, as recipients or providers. Accompanying this are significant levels of public support for such activities. Yet in spite of this, the evidence base is inadequate....

TAKE 2016 will have the following objectives: a) To analyze the relation between the theory and the applications the economy of the 21st century. b) To understand how to improve the management of the knowledge based economy we live in. c) To analyze the today’s economy putting together...

Topics: The Third Sector and the Welfare state - Civil society and Democracy - NGOs and Globalization - Accountability and Transparency - Social Innovation and Social Enterprise - Advocacy and Public Policy - Philanthropy and Foundations - Volunteerism and Co-production - Managing Third Sector...

The workshop, organized within the 20th ICABR Conference, will bring together academics and development practitioners on issues related to international development. Topics: - Agricultural transformation and rural development; - Entrepreneurship and private sector development; - Development and...

The conference is devoted to investigating ways in which international migration affects economic and social change in developing countries. Possible topics include the effects of migration on poverty, inequality, and human capital formation; social networks and migration; diaspora...