On the 12 and 13 December 2011, Governments and traders from all over the world, will come together to review the progress made on the Trade Facilitation agenda and to explore the way ahead. They will develop a joint vision and framework to guide the future of Single Windows and their support to...

Key note speaker - Professor Jonathan Eaton, Penn State University

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marc J. Melitz (Department of Economics Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently to international forces. Some...

This Forum will provide a key platform for the sharing of information and discussion of the most important regional social security trends and priority issues in Africa. A unique networking opportunity, the Forum will bring together social security administrators, policy-makers and international...

A primary goal of the conference is to promote an international dialogue between decision makers, business and government leaders from countries in transition and Western developed countries. The conference will present information about the process of economic transformation in Central and...

We invite papers by academics, trade union researchers and social movement activists in the following areas: - basic analyses of what a ‘proper’ free trade system is; - analyses of current free trade policies, the implications of neo-liberalism as well as the concrete results of free trade...

Migrants from Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and North Africa continue to make their home in Western Europe - but how well are their needs being met? Migrant banking in Europe offers a range of exciting opportunities for both financial and non-financial players. For instance, there is a small...

Auf der Tagung „Die Rolle des Konsumenten in der Wirtschaftsethik“ nehmen deshalb am 29. und 30. November Experten das Verhältnis von Konsumenten- und Unternehmensverantwortung genauer in den Blick. Eröffnet wird die Tagung mit einer Buchvorstellung von „Die Verantwortung des...

Das Thema der Tagung lautet: “Wachstum – Fortschritt – Lebensqualität: (k)eine Geschlechterfrage?“. Im Mittelpunkt der diesjährigen efas-Fachtagung werden somit Fragen zu der Bedeutung der Geschlechterverhältnisse für die Entwicklung alternativer Wirtschafts- und...