WWe are looking for contributions on the broad theme of economic development in Africa. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: mobile money and financial innovation; natural resource management; the quality of education and health; migration, remittances and the brain drain; the...

We are looking for contributions on the economics of migration in the development context. Topics of interest include but are not limited to brain drain vs. brain gain; the effects of financial and immaterial remittances such as political attitudes and social norms; the determinants of migration...

Topics: Human capital and labor markets; Formal and informal labor markets; Child labor and forced labor; Networking and entrepreneurship; Public sector employment; Agricultural and rural labor; Unemployment, underemployment and labor misallocation; Wage inequality and redistribution; Social...

The Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields in applied and theoretical Public Economics and, more generally, to papers in the area of: - Taxation and Redistributive Systems, - Welfare Economics, Well-being Measures, Inequality, - Normative Economics, - Political Economy, -...

ASWEDE promotes scientific research in development economics through workshops and conferences, and supports cooperation between development economists active in Sweden. The conference is open to development economists active in and outside of Sweden. We now invite submissions for the ASWEDE...

The INSEAD-EABIS Programme Committee invites the submission of extended abstracts that focus on one or more of the following in development and/or developing countries: - Research into the role and responsibilities of business in addressing any dimension of the sustainability and/or development...

This meeting is at the same time the annual symposium of the CEPR Development Economics Programme, the Twentieth BREAD Development Economics Conference and AMID Third Network Annual Conference. We invite submissions for the CEPR/BREAD/AMID conference from interested researchers on any topics...

We welcome contributions from theorists and empiricists alike who are interested in broadening our understanding of the economics of welfare which continues to flourish. Following work by Sen, Stiglitz and others that has helped to bring about the Sarkozy Report, the EU’s Beyond GDP memorandum...

Topics: - Health financing, macroeconomic issues and developing strategies - Financing strategies, articulating instruments, role of different actors - Incentive policies (supply and demand of care) - Effects of health allocated aid global aid on health outcomes - Financing, efficiency,...

Contributions from economics and the social sciences are invited. Possible fields of enquiry include: - Social cohesion and growth - Social cohesion and inequality - Governance, institutions and social cohesion - Social cohesion and (global) public goods - Education policies and social...