Topics of interest include but are not limited to evaluation of European and international experience with policy approaches to: 1) labor market policy and reform 2) youth unemployment 3) inequality and poverty 4) informality 5) gender and family issues 6) education. Both single country and...

Programme: - Keynote Speech: Lower Social Mobility: The Long-run Cost of Higher Inequality; Maurizio Franzini, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland; Tim Callan, ESRI - Inequality in Germany; Gerhard Bosch, University of...

Topics: - Determinants and causes of poverty and its changes - Consequences and impacts of poverty on human capital formation, growth, consumption and so on - Assessment of poverty strategies and policies - The role of government, NGOs and other institutions in poverty reduction - Rural-urban...