The IUSSP’s main activity is the organization of scientific seminars and conferences. Every four years, the IUSSP organizes the International Population Conference. This conference provides an opportunity for scientists, programme managers and policy makers from all over the world to review...

The MESD’12 raises the key question of the role multinational enterprises play, in the dynamic sustainable business environment. Because of the size and scope of their transborder activities, multinationals are global environmental actors and stewards. Their corporate strategies can accelerate...

The conference, as a major knowledge consolidation initiative, is structured around three key themes and under each of these a number of session topics are listed. We would like to invite proposals (panels, roundtables, sessions, presentations, etc.) that address these topics: - Key Theme 1:...

The objective of this Seminar is to explore opportunities to use social security to strengthen individuals' capacities to manage the social risks they face and make appropriate decisions, while developing their sense of responsibility. This involves raising awareness of the need for social...

The Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields of public economics, both applied and theoretical. Are especially (but not exclusively) requested papers in the following categories of topics: - Taxation (including transfers, social security, etc.) - Local Public Economics and...

Topics: - Inequality measurements - Economic growth, inequalities and poverty - Polarization, fragmentation, discrimination and horizontal inequalities - Economic and social mobility - Constitution of the middle classes - Poverty, vulnerability and vertical inequalities - Inequalities of...

The conference program highlights are as follows: - Pascal Saint-Amans (recently appointed Director of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration), Terrance McAuley (Assistant Commissioner, Compliance Services Branch, Canada Revenue Agency), and Michael F. Mundaca (of Ernst & Young...

Topics: - Introduction on the issues of commercial transport in urban areas - Data necessity and goods transport indicators for decision making processes - Strategies and measures for the organisation of a sustainable urban commercial/goods transport - Comparison of regulations in EU concerning...