The conference will have three main themes: 1. The Private Sector and Agriculture and Rural Development 2. Trade Links to the Private Sector and Poverty Reduction 3. Business, Finance and Poverty Reduction

A suggestive list of categories may be: - market regulation - market structure (sectoral/inter-sectoral, labor/product) - governance - role/implication of the public sector - fairness, justice, distribution - labor market regulation and welfare systems - financial sector - international context...

Note that papers and panels on other topics from all areas of comparative economics are also welcome. - Comparative economics - Economic Development - The Enlarged EU - EU Candidates - EU and its Neighbourhood - The Lisbon objectives - Privatisation and governance - Finance and Monetary Issues -...

The theme for the conference is: Multilateralism, Bilateralism and Development. This theme was chosen because this is the first time that the conference is being hosted in Africa and several countries in the region are putting a lot of effort into bilateral, multilateral and regional trade...

We seek submissions from all disciplines in Economics and Administrative Sciences. Potential subtopics include, but are not limited to, Political Economy , International Political Relations , Managerial Issues , Cultural Issues , National Autonomy , Environmental Issues , Technology and ICT ,...

In virtually every country in the world more than 95% of enterprises are SMEs. Their economic and social importance cannot be under-estimated. The problems of funding such SMEs, also seems to cross international boundaries, because complete information about them is not always available to...

The WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong in December 2005 is meant to be the culmination of the negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). That agenda has proven to be both more ambitious and controversial that negotiators had foreseen when they established it in 2001. Since then, key...