Bei der Nacht des Wissens öffnen mehr als 50 Hochschulen, außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen und weitere wissenschaftliche Institutionen in Hamburg und der Metropolregion ihre Türen. Das GIGA lädt Sie an diesem Tag herzlich zu einer globalen Informationsreise ein und bietet...

The Program on Labor and Development is concerned with the functioning of labor markets in developing countries, with a particular focus on employment and earnings both in wage employment and in self-employment. The aim of the 2017 IZA Workshop on Labor and Development is to bring together...

The Conference aims at bringing together academics, policy makers, representatives from international organizations and businesses to discuss the challenges and opportunities – and the possible future – of the proliferation of global value chains (GVCs). The focus is on how to make the most...

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers, parallel sessions with contributed papers, and a poster session (with two discussants for all posters) will reflect the current...

Economic Development: Asset markets in developing countries - Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

In September 2013, the United Nations began to discuss the post MDG 2015 agenda. Global Sustainable Development Goals seems to be the new slogan. The emphasis in the field of employment is placed on social protection, skill training, better business climate (plus a move to large-scale...

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with the keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with contributed papers and posters will reflect the current state of research in development economics...

Researchers on development issues are invited to present papers for the EADI General Conference under the Working Group sessions. EADI Working Groups: - Aid Policy and Performance - Conflicts, Security and Development - Development Aid of the Non-DAC Donors - Development Evaluation - Disasters...

The workshop aims at exploring a general framework for the social sciences for investigating how competition processes interact with conflict and cooperation. This framework will provide a deeper understanding of social interactions, political reforms, the functioning of markets and political...