The first World Congress on Communication for Development will focus on demonstrating that communication for development is an essential ingredient for meeting today’s most pressing development challenges and, as such, should be more fully integrated in development policy and practice.

The objective of this conference is to bring together recent economic and historical research that investigates the development of business and finance over the past centuries, how it interacted with legal, economic and political institutions, and the impact on economic performance. We welcome...

This conference will help to identify rural investment priorities, foster innovation in rural regions, increase services to sparsely populated areas and encourage urban-rural linkages. Through the co-operation between private, government and academic resources, this conference provides the...

Theme LINK is the only programme in Europe that focuses on the practical needs and challenges of those working in management and organizational development.

The conference, which continues to be one of the IBA’s most popular specialist events, brings together leading lawyers, competition specialists and regulators from around the world to discuss and examine the current policies and developments in international competition law.

Theme: "The Good Company.Catholic Social Thought and Corporate Social Responsibility in Dialogue."

Topics: - The Economics of Food Supply - Supply Chain Economics - Economics Theories and Practicalities for Campaigning

Some of the topics: - The choice between alternative sources of financing for innovative firms and their impact on strategic decision in entrepreneurial firms; - The determinants of knowledge-based entrepreneurship; - Venture capital, its contribution to the knowledge-based economy; - Economics...

Topics relevant to the conference include: - Pension research in general - Labour markets and pension decisions - Pensions and financial markets - New tools for studying pension system reform (eg surveys such as SHARE)

The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations come into effect on 1 October 2006. For the first time this will outlaw age discrimination in employment (whether against older or younger people). What difference will this make to current employment practices? Age discrimination legislation will not...