UN/CEFACT supports activities dedicated to improving the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations, from developed, developing and transition economies, to exchange products and relevant services effectively. Its principal focus is on facilitating national and international...

The workshop is intended to bring together economists working on International Trade modeling and Globalization and Economic Development analysis. Of particular interest are works developing general equilibrium models of a static and/or dynamic nature with perfectly and/or imperfectly...

The following issues will be addressed: - Agricultural practices that increase the availability of food for poor people, e.g. production for domestic use; land reform, reduction of post-harvest losses; strengthening peri-urban agriculture; sustainable productivity increase, etc. - Policies for...

The focus of this conference would be labour and employment issues in the non-agricultural sector in India and other developing countries. The focus themes of the conference are as follows: I. Employment and Wages: Macro and Sectoral Issues II. Labour and Law III. Trade Unions and Industrial...

Topics : - Intra-industry versus inter-industry trade: effects on wages, employment, inequality and migration. - Offshoring, outsourcing and FDI: effects on home and host labour markets - Labour migration, trade flows, and FDI : substitutability versus complementarity - Trade, specialization...

The Italian Association for Population Studies (SIS-AISP), announces a call for abstracts for the Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione 2013 (Population Days 2013). Each contribution to the conference should be submitted in one of the following strands: - Fertility - Migrations - Health and...