CofFEE announces the Creating a Culture of Full Employment Conference which will incorporate the 7th Path to Full Employment Conference and the 12th National Conference on Unemployment. It will be staged in Newcastle over two days - Thursday, December 8 and Friday, December 9, 2005. Pencil in...

The wide range of topics to be covered by the studies may include but is not limited by: a) Globalization and the chronic poor b) ‘Corporate globalization’ and the poor. c) Threshold and externality effects of globalization and dynamics of ‘between-country inequality’ e) Global economic...

Das WSI-Herbstforum 2005 lädt ein zur Diskussion über die Frage, inwiefern Eigenverantwortung und Solidarität als Leitprinzipien eines modernen Sozialstaats dienen können und sollen.

This year looks set to be an eventful one for the water industry. Companies will be implementing their investment programmes as agreed during PR04, and the need for effective business plans will be essential in seeing them through the coming years. On the agenda as well is the Water Framework...

In recent years, a variety of organizational models for infrastructure have been developed, tested, succeeded/failed, and been re-launched. Among the standard policies have been privatization and unbundling of formerly vertically integrated industries; more recently, concessions for specific...

ESSLE is designed to bring together economists in the field from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. It provides a unique opportunity for researchers from different universities and countries to discuss their work in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term...

The Hamburg-based HWWA Institute for International Economics and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU) are organising a joint workshop on this issue in order to advance our knowledge on the effects of FDI in CEE and to provide a discussion forum for experts in this...