On Thursday 8 December, the programme includes a special session on ‘Inequality and development’ featuring recent research from UNU-WIDER's WIID and SOUTHMOD - simulating tax and benefit policies for development Phase 2 projects.

This interdisciplinary workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss the post pandemic opportunities in various sectors of developing and emerging economies. As sustainability has become a focus of many industries during the pandemic and it is promoted by supra-governmental organisations as...

The ERF 26th Annual Conference was due to take place in Luxor, Egypt in March but has been postponed until later in the year. The main theme of the plenary sessions will be Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a Framework for MENA’s Development Policy. Global trends are defined as...

Under the general theme Future of Work: Democracy, Development, and the Role of Labour the XIII GLU Conference will debate these challenges with a focus on four sub-themes: 1. Structural Changes and Impacts on Labour 2. Trade Union Organization and Strategies 3. Labour Regulation 4....

The broad topic of the conference is ‘International Economics’. This includes, inter alia, the areas of Trade, International Factor Movements, Economic Integration, Trade Policy, International Trade Organizations, Economic Growth of Open Economies, Multinational Firms, International...

Topics: - Policy factors affecting entry mode, location and operations of FDI in developing countries - Inward FDI and upgrading within global value chains: assessing the evidence - Inter-firm linkages and spillovers from FDI: describing the transmission channels - Growing dynamism in...

Economic and Social Development Conferences, together with Economic and Social Development Association: promote, develop and improve the economic and social development, without territorial, ethnic and religious exclusivity, supporting the principles of economic efficiency, sustainable social...

The Economics of Security Initiative aims to analyze the causes, dynamics, and longterm effects of human-induced insecurity threats emerging from terrorism, organized crime and piracy. This workshop aims to bring together young and established researchers in security economics to present and...

he theme of the plenary sessions this year is “Corruption and Economic Development.” The themes of the parallel sessions are always varied enough to accommodate diverse research interests. Submissions for presentations in the parallel sessions may be made under the following areas: 1....