USAID’s Office of Poverty Reduction (PR), the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) plan to co-sponsor a two-day international conference on the special challenge of poverty reduction in conflict and fragile states. Examining the...

These workshops are designed to reach three major goals: (a) introduce the revised set of principles and recommendations, including the recommended tabulations as a new international standard; (b) provide an opportunity for participants to discuss these standards and to assess their feasibility...

These workshops are designed to reach three major goals: (a) introduce the revised set of principles and recommendations, including the recommended tabulations as a new international standard; (b) provide an opportunity for participants to discuss these standards and to assess their feasibility...

Die Ziele der ersten EVS-Nutzerkonferenz sind: • Information über das Analysepotential der EVS-Mikrodaten • Diskussion über neuere Forschungsergebnisse, die auf der Basis dieser Daten gewonnen wurden • Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Datennutzern und Datenproduzenten Die Konferenz wendet...

The 2006 North American Conference of the Association for Consumer Research will be held at the Renaissance Orlando Resort at Seaworld in Orlando, Florida, from Thursday September 28 through Sunday October 1, 2006. As in past years, the conference will provide a multi-topical forum for scholarly...

A Lifetime of Assets—Building Families, Communities & Economies will bring key stakeholders together to shape the future of asset building. Almost 900 participants will gather in beautiful Phoenix to: - Exchange practice, research, and policy strategies to promote a lifetime of asset-building...

The SCP conference is a relatively intimate forum, providing opportunities for a high level of interaction among participants interested in integrating psychology and consumer research.

The conference focuses on the Consumer Culture Theory Approach explicated by Eric Arnould and Craig Thompson in the March, 2005 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. Qualitative, interpretive, ethnographic, videographic, netnographic, poetic, and phenomenological consumer research is sought.

Following is a representative, but not exclusive, list of the kinds of potential paper topics we seek: - Why do consumers use the payments instruments they use? - What can behavioral economics tell us about consumer payment choices? - Does payment choice affect consumption, savings, and debt? Do...

We are particularly interested in papers that explore the implications of corporate responsibility, globalisation and global business for business and marketing strategy. Research papers can be either empirical or conceptual. Topic areas include the following: - Consumer behavior, branding &...