In recent decades poverty research has changed almost beyond recognition, along with the techniques used in analytic work. Yet many researchers remain unaware of the many ways in which the frontiers of poverty analysis have been extended. The aim of this conference is to help rectify the...

This ESPAnet Conference in September 2008 thus looks forward into the global future of cross-border influences in social policy, but also analyzes the earlier experience of diffusion of social policy ideas. The conference offers a forum for debating policy learning, and lessons and evidence from...

The programme consists of lectures presented by staff members, presentations by doctoral students and discussion on their research plans.

The themes of the Eleventh Annual Conference are: - Globalization and economies in transition; - Development, poverty and vulnerability; - Energy and environment; and - Wealth, aging and income distribution