The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Erich Gundlach (Claussen-Simon-Professor of Economics University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth...

Program: - Cash Transfers and Social Assistance - Climate Change, Poverty and Migration - Education, Informality and Inequality - Education and Discrimination - Education and Labor Markets - Labor Market Programs and Employment - Health, Participation and Remittances - Welfare and Social Effects...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marcel Fafchamps (University of Oxford) The first part of the course discusses contract enforcement mechanisms, with a particular focus on trust, relational contracting, and reputation...

The conference invites papers around the issues which may involve questions around the workings and structure of the International Labour Organisation, the world of work in the current context of global recession, issues surrounding social unrest as linked to rising unemployment, and the future...

The Symposium will start by considering the significance of mobility in developing regions, including relevant cultural aspects. The following panel will explore ways of promoting mobility in developing regions in a sustainable manner. As the next step, sustainable mobility will be considered in...

We are looking for original empirical and theoretical contributions that have implications for concrete policy recommendations in any of the four broad areas outlined below: 1. The necessity of a new global development agenda. 2. The content and purpose of a new global development agenda. 3....

The seminar aims to establish an informal network of young scholars in the field of development economics. Doctoral students from DIW Berlin/Humboldt University Berlin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Frankfurt University, Heidelberg University, Georg-August-Göttingen University, Mannheim University and...

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...

Submissions of papers consistent with one of the conference topics, or their interaction, or with related issues such as corruption, social benefit fraud, and other illicit economic activities are welcome. Papers may be theoretical, empirical, experimental, agent-based, etc.

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 will reflect the current state of research in development economics and provide...