The event will focus on policy-relevant research, applicable to identifying solutions to jobs challenges in low and middle income countries. To expand the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs and advance the discussion on the most effective policies, we are interested in papers that focus...

Topic: Development Economics.

The aim of the conference is to present and discuss the latest policy-relevant research to foster the creation of multi-sector, multi-disciplinary solutions to jobs challenges around the world based on research and empirical evidence. In addition to the regular sessions in all fields of labor...

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...

Keywords: foreign aid; official development assistance (ODA); development finance; Africa; freedom, democracy and human rights; growth and employment; gender equality; stability and fragility; and environment and climate.

The insights of behavioural economics have begun to be applied to development economics and in particular to the behaviour of poor households in poor economies. Does poverty promote departures from the standard text book model of rational choice? Do such departures in turn promote poverty and...

This workshop will take stock of what we know and what we need to know about cities and development; to gather experiences of urbanization and urban growth from across the world; and to offer policy options for an inexorably urbanizing world.

Papers on any topics related to African economic development, including in a comparative context, are welcome. This conference will largely consist of parallel sessions, with two plenary sessions.

Workshop topics include: - The concept and measurement of entrepreneurship in the context of developing countries. - The channels through which entrepreneurship drives economic structural transformation and growth and institutional development. - The advantages and disadvantages of small, micro,...

Developing country economies have grown faster than those of the developed countries. In particular, the emergence of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS) is reshaping the global economic and political landscape. The prospects and implications of the rise of CIBS are of profound...