Major Theme: The Way Forward - Austerity or Stimulus The Conference will seek to explore the apparent contradictions of the policy stances that are now emerging amidst the global unemployment crisis. More specific themes: - Reflections on the global financial crisis? Reform agendas etc. - Any...

The main objective of the conference is to take stock of the state of current research and identify knowledge gaps: - How can poverty data be used to compare the situation in different industrialized nations? - What are the scope and the limitations of such comparisons? - How can we define the...

The second annual conference invites contributions from those who critically engage with, extend or operationalize the Capital as Power approach in their own research. We also welcome contributions by those who present other power-centered alternatives to existing theories of capitalism....

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...

Invited speakers: Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota) Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario and RCEA) Richard Rogerson (Arizona State University) Gianluca Violante (New York University)

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,...

The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is a household-based panel study which began in 2001. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of research based on the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Attendance at the...

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...

Topics of debate: - Analysis of the capitalist management of the economy and proposals for global self-management. - The new crisis of global capitalism: analysis and responses from the perspective of the workers’ economy. - Self-management: the historical assessment. - Self-management in its...