The development landscape has never been static but in these times of uncertainty and insecurity, we are witnessing ever more profound shifts in global relations, inequalities, and forms of exclusion. Dominant trajectories and paths of ‘development’ have led the world to the brink of...

The aim of the Globelics Academy PhD School is to support the training of PhD students from all over the world writing theses on issues related to innovation systems and development. The Academy brings together frontier researchers in innovation with PhD students from the South and the North in...

The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are low-income countries that face severe structural impediments to sustainable development. These countries are highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks and have low levels of human assets. To help the LDCs address these specific challenges,...

In accordance with the latest UN guidelines we regret to inform the 2020 WIDER Development Conference has been cancelled.

Theme: Effective and Efficient Strategies for the Financial Stability, Sustainability and Development of Asian Emerging Markets. Topics: Asset Pricing; Financial Crises; Auditing; Financial Education; Banking and Financial intermediaries; Financial Inclusion; Behavioral Finance; Financial...

The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and experience among economists conducting quantitative analysis for policy and decision making in the public and private sectors. The conference will cover all areas of modeling and data science applied to monetary, financial,...

The conference will showcase UNU-WIDER, its work, and the many people and institutions that are engaged with it. The conference will hold panel discussions on all of the main themes and findings of UNU-WIDER’s research during 2009-18 — finance, food and climate change; and transformation,...

The conference aims at bringing together Nordic and international scholars for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent results within theoretical and applied development economics research. We welcome submissions of individual papers in any field of development economics from researchers...

The workshop aims to: - Raise awareness of the potential of fintech applications for overcoming key financial inclusion challenges in the UK and Malaysia; - Identify the processes through which the regulatory and institutional environments in emerging economies can be realigned to fully exploit...

WWe are looking for contributions on the broad theme of economic development in Africa. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: mobile money and financial innovation; natural resource management; the quality of education and health; migration, remittances and the brain drain; the...