2017 Special Focus - Pathways to Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for State and Society. Themes: 1: Environmental Sustainability, 2: Sustainability in Economic, Social and Cultural Context, 3: Sustainability Policy and Practice, 4: Sustainability Education.

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...

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 -...

Experts speakers will debate topics including: - The real potential of PPP in Brazil - Gearing up for the impending airport auctions - Looking towards the renewable energy auctions: Changing the landscape for Brazilian energy - Emerging expectations and opportunities for wind power in Brazil -...

Topics: - Remaking the World of Education: Neoliberal Agenda and Spaces of Resistance - News ways of Governance and Educational Policies: The Tensions between the Local, the National and the Transnational Level’s - Education, Citizenship and Identity(ies) - Education, Migrations, Human Rights...