Topics: - Causes and consequences of violent conflicts: civil wars, interstate wars, terrorism, rebellion... - Arms trade - International trade, capital flows and violent conflicts - Institutions and violent conflicts - Multilateral institutions and conflicts - Political versus economic causes...

Developing country economies have grown faster than those of the developed countries. In particular, the emergence of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS) is reshaping the global economic and political landscape. The prospects and implications of the rise of CIBS are of profound...

The subject of the conference is "Knowledge for Growth: European Strategies in a Global Economy." The conference has thus two broad objectives. First, to take stock of the recent contributions on the knowledge economy and identify the building blocks of national and European Strategies to...

The conference will focus on the relationship between technological innovation, institutions and development, by exploring general subjects linked to innovation and competition at the firm, the industry and more aggregated stages, including the sector, the region and the national system...

Political, technological and commercial forces are driving growth in the international exchange of goods, services, jobs and people. These changes have resulted in very significant growth in economic prosperity and some major reductions in global poverty. The BRIICS (Brazil, Russia, India,...

Key iussues: - Climate Change - How can we build a solid economic framework for combating climate change beyond Kyoto? - Growth and Stability - How to deal with risks following the shocks of financial turmoil, cooling housing markets and higher energy and commodity prices? How should regulators...

Economic growth is more and more questioned internationally. A debate has been developing the last years in France on the concept of "Sustainable De-growth”". The question reaches the researchers: the so-called "decoupling" between ecological degradation and economic growth appears...