Taking for granted that a joint action of all actors of the society is necessary to ensure sustainable development and human rights protection universally, and that State and civil society roles not only compliment each other, but often overlap, this paper attempts to define the roles of the...

This peer review held in Warsaw (Poland) on 29-30 October 2012 discussed how encouraging older people in social activities; developing goods and services tailored to their needs; and supporting their labour market activities contribute to their personal wellbeing (the micro perspective) and to...

CII Introduction: the insurance industry provides a long-standing and often forgotten role of helping people and businesses do things without the fear of catastrophic loss should something go wrong. How can this be achieved in a sustainable manner? Does the industry use the most sophisticated...

Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivitygrowth is positively correlated with population size or population growth,an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate R&D-basedgrowth into a unied growth setup with micro-founded fertility and...