The 2011 Global Studies Conference will address a range of critically important ideas relating to globalization in the world today, as well as focusing on a special theme – Latin America and Globalisation: Emerging Societies and Emancipation. This is a conference for any person with an...

Latin America, a thriving region of more than 600 million people, has a promising decade ahead. It is a leading global trader of agro-products with major reserves of raw materials and immense rainforests, which are vital for the global climate and hold potential for renewable energies. Major...

Inhaltliche Schwerpunkte der Konferenz: • Politische und juristische Aspekte der Globalisierung • Außenhandels- und Währungsfragen einschließlich der Internationalisierung von Finanzdienstleistungen • Auswirkungen auf die Wirtschaftstätigkeit von Unternehmen • Konsequenzen für die...

High commodity prices, favourable financial conditions and the hard-won economic reforms of the 1990s boosted regional economic growth to an average of 5% in the past years, with low inflation and strong current account surpluses. Besides dealing with the international financial turbulence and...

Developing country economies have grown faster than those of the developed countries. In particular, the emergence of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS) is reshaping the global economic and political landscape. The prospects and implications of the rise of CIBS are of profound...

The conference covers six broad themes: 1. University-industry-government partnership 2. Organizational change, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship 3. Transnational, national, regional and sectoral innovation systems 4. Evolutionary economics, economic development and economic...

The organizers are looking particularly for empirical and conceptual studies exploring the impact of globalization on the poor in Latin America through one or more of its various manifestations. a) Globalization and the chronic poor b) ‘Corporate globalization’ and the poor c) Threshold and...