Globalisation processes and technological change, as well as the on-going crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic, pose new challenges and traditional top-down development policies seem not to be suitable to address all these effectively. At the same time, a territorial and participatory approach to...

The workshop is a part of the 10th Annual ICSID Conference "Political Economy in a Changing World". Contributions from the fields of political economy, economics and political science are invited. We welcome submissions that adopt theoretical as well as empirical, qualitative as well as...

Focus: Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Topics: - Redistributive effects of fiscal, labour market and social policies - Social exclusion, poverty and inequality: concepts and measurement - Income mobility, life-cycle dynamics and intergenerational transmission of welfare -...

Recent German and international policy initiatives such as the Compact with Africa or the Marshall Plan with Africa all have had a strong focus on promoting (foreign) private investment for job creation. The development success of these initiatives hinges on their ability to create decent work...

Topics: - Collective actions and public goods - Comparative studies of governance - Social capital, trust, and cultural norms - Human capital and economic development - Political elites and economic performance - History and persistence of economic growth The conference will follow the EACES-HSE...

The seminar is going to take place during the 18th April Conference on Economic and Social Development at the Higher School of Economics, held in Moscow from April 11 to April 14, 2017. Contributions from fields of labour market, migration, investment, education, housing, health studies are...

The workshop is going to be part of the 4th ICSID Conference 2015 in Moscow. Contributions from the fields of political economy and political science are invited. Submissions that adopt research of recent processes and new challenges in political economy are especially welcome.

The seminar is going to take place during the 15th April Conference on Economic and Social Development at the Higher School of Economics. Contributions from all fields of economics are invited, as long as they relate to the general topic of comparative economic studies. Submissions that adopt a...

The central theme of the conference will be the consequences of and the lessons to be learnt from the economic and political rise of new global actors, including countries like China and India. The resulting power shifts and the strengthening of interactions between developing countries have...

Im ersten Jahrzehnt des 21. Jahrhunderts ist eine rasante Schwerpunktverschiebung der Weltwirtschaft zu den Schwellenländern zu beobachten, vor allem zugunsten der wachstums-starken Bevölkerungsgiganten China und Indien. Der OECD-Report Global Perspectives on Development 2010 diskutiert unter...