The first Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network will focus on inclusive firms and markets and consider questions around characteristics of inclusive business, ways to measure impact, and ways to support inclusion by a range of actors.

The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for high-quality work in labour/development economics.

Universal Child Grants (UCG) are increasingly discussed as a policy instrument to achieve universal social protection and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference organisers invite research paper proposals based on evidence from the implementation of cash transfers...

This conference will examine the process of EU economic convergence in its various forms and consider its driving factors. How can we spot the crucial trends in convergence and how can they help us understand and stimulate the process? What roles do education, structural funds and regional...

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers, parallel sessions with contributed papers, and a poster session (with two discussants for each poster) will reflect the current...

Do outside interventions in conflict-affected areas do any good? Do they fuel the conflict further? Can donor agencies and NGO’s plan their intervention in such a way as not to become an actor in the conflict themselves? What is the space in which the development and humanitarian aid community...

The conference will seek to provide answers to the following questions, amongst others: In particular, but not exclusively, we invite contributions (papers and presentations of projects) that provide solutions to the following challenges and questions: - What measures of inequality are more...

The summer school is intended for PhD students, post-docs and junior faculty members. The main components will be lectures by leading researchers and participants’ presentations. Lecture topics include social networks and development, issues in network data, spatial methods in development...

The objective of the conference is to discuss new and enduring questions in development finance for Low-Income Developing Countries. Topics: - Opportunities and risks of different sources of external financing - Assessing debt sustainability in LIDCs - Leveraging innovative development finance -...