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.

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....

In line with the conference’s focus on growth, topics will range from the need to redesign global strategies, taking into account expected changes in global trade; to the challenges faced by firms when devising strategies, by harnessing the potential of new technologies to fuel growth. The...

Tracs: - Governance, Politics, Ethics and Conflict in Planning, - Informal Housing, Land Tenure and Government Programs, - Housing and Community Development, - Spatial Policies and Land Use Planning, - Planning Practice and Innovation in Planning Education, - Planning History, - Planning...

The 2nd Ibero-American Meeting of Socio-Economics, a SASE Regional Conference, will debate several issues that arise to the study of socio-economic development in the region, with a main focus on the State's role. More specifically, it will be emphasized: State´s capacity to promote a...

IARIW Session on Developments in Income Inequality Across the World

Theme Subjects: 1. Theory and methodologies in regional economics 2. Spatial analysis and spatial econometrics 3. Location and concentration of economic activities 4. Geographical information science and spatial analysis 5. Economic growth and regional development 6. Globalization and regional...

The RSA 2014 Global Conference in Brazil will focus on thinking about paths, policies and ideas to strengthen vulnerable places and to develop cohesive and resilient territories. We acknowledge that only adaptive and flexible regions can succeed in an ever-changing world. This conference offers...

Empirical or theoretical papers in the following areas are especially welcome: - Measurement of national income and wellbeing - Income distribution - Inequality (of income, wealth, education or opportunities) - Poverty - Socioeconomic mobility - Definition and measurement of the middle class -...

The VI World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA) has the objective to bring together economists, econometricians and regional scientists to discuss the present achievements and future challenges and opportunities in spatial data analysis. The 2012 SEA World Conference plans...