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...

The summer school is organised by Maastricht University, in cooperation with the partner universities and the institutes of Isprit network and the US-based network of the Multidisciplinary and Comparative Program in Inequality and Social Policy of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard...

The scope of the conference stretches from theoretical to empirical and policy studies, including cooperation for natural resource management, economics of property rights and institutions, bio-economic modelling, economics of agro-biodiversity and studies linking international trade, poverty...

It is anticipated that many of the participants will focus on economic and financial dimensions of the complex globalization process -- considering among other things flows of goods, money, people, information and technology. Papers may assess the impact of globalization on various regions of...