Research about the causes and implications of inequality is ongoing, and this workshop aims at both providing some answers and promote further efforts. Understanding the roots of inequality is an important issue, and the first step to designing measures aimed at promoting equality of opportunity.

Netspar stimulates innovative academic research in all disciplines in the social sciences related to aging and retirement. Topics of interest related to aging and retirement are: - Wellbeing and Welfare of Older People, - Communication and choice, - Work, Retirement, Housing, and Healthcare, -...

GARNET's core theme is ‘Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: the Role of the EU’. To integrate research from Europe and beyond, GARNET organises an international conference every year starting 2006. This one, held in Amsterdam, will be the first.

Overview of sections and respective lecturing rooms of the conference: - Competitiveness and Economic Policy - Roles and Issues of the Public Sector in a Modern Welfare State - Manager and His or Her Role in the Successfulness of a Company - Financial Management of Companies and Institutions -...

This workshop will seek a highly interactive exchange seeking common ground between the themes of poverty and the role of access to finance in development. We are interested in work, both empirical and theoretical, that examines this set of barriers to establishment and growth. Possible areas...