Forum Sessions: - Developments and trends in social security - Demographic challenges - Governance and management - Extension of social security coverage - Focus on Africa - Social Security Summit

This day and a half event will bring together scholars from the new Financial Literacy Research Consortium to present their research and discuss how programs, educational products, and policies can best promote financial planning and financial security. The conference agenda is designed for...

Theme: Sustainable Transformation through Global Knowledge Sharing: Empowerment by attainment of social, political, economic and ethical goals Tracks: Corporate Governance, States and Societies,Technology and Innovation, Economics, Finance, and Accounting Issues, Social Policy and Empowerment,...

This conference sets about finding policies that reduce vulnerabilities of the poor to shocks, sustain the socioeconomic balance and promote development that is equitable in times of growth and crisis alike. We are interested in high-quality papers as well as innovative projects, including...

The goals of the Center for Retirement Research are to promote research on retirement issues, to transmit new findings to a broad audience, to help train new scholars, and to expand access to valuable data resources.

Topics: - Safety of machinery: safety concepts and principles, design rules and strategy, maintenance of machinery - Risk assessment: Hazard identification, historic experience, mitigation, risk estimation and evaluation, assessment methodology, comparison of methodologies - Practical...

Papers and Symposia are invited in the following subject categories: Consumer, Environment, Marketing, Natural Resources, Trade, Rural/Regional Development, International Development, Policy, Innovation, Industrial Organization, Production/Management, Health and Nutrition, Other – Specify.

This conference has two main objectives. First, to bring academics together in a multidisciplinary setting. There is an increasing realization that each academic discipline cannot thrive on its own without capitalizing on the rapidly developing research and findings across the disciplines. The...

The Forum will focus on four specific themes; energy efficiency, commercialization of Russian innovations, modernization of the Russian Industry and the primary objective – launching the roadmaps for the EU–Russia Innovation Cooperation 2010 – 2013, The event will gather Finnish, Russian...

The conference is intended to encourage further research in the area of local institutional determinants to enhance and foster productivity, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation in this field.