The aim of the Globelics Academy PhD School is to support the training of PhD students from all over the world writing theses on issues related to innovation systems and development. The Academy brings together frontier researchers in innovation with PhD students from the South and the North in...

The conference will focus on Investment needs and climate in Finland. It assesses the extent to which firms are addressing the need to make their businesses more green and digital, against the backdrop of pandemic recovery programmes and unprecedented recent shocks. The conference brings...

The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are low-income countries that face severe structural impediments to sustainable development. These countries are highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks and have low levels of human assets. To help the LDCs address these specific challenges,...

In accordance with the latest UN guidelines we regret to inform the 2020 WIDER Development Conference has been cancelled.

The goals of the conference are to focus attention on emerging scholarship and establish links between researchers and data providers to promote new work on forced displacement. Papers presented at the conference will be eligible for consideration for a special issue on Forced Displacement in...

The theme for the Conference, ‘Real Work in the Virtual World’ addresses the changing contents of work and the upheavals of in current and future work, as well as the changing nature of work across occupations, industries and countries. Work is currently being reorganized globally, with...

We welcome submissions of individual papers in any field of development economics from researchers based in the Nordic countries and elsewhere.

The conference will showcase UNU-WIDER, its work, and the many people and institutions that are engaged with it. The conference will hold panel discussions on all of the main themes and findings of UNU-WIDER’s research during 2009-18 — finance, food and climate change; and transformation,...

The 35th General Conference is primarily organized around the following theme sessions: - Globalization and Inclusive Growth - Skills, Employment and Productivity – Measurement Analysis. - Measuring Capital and Wealth - Human Capital and Innovation - Is Productivity Growth Slowing Down? - The...