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Papers dealing with the various issues at hand, i.e. determining the various forms of poverty, understanding the genesis of misery in capitalistic economies as well as the fashion in which misery may be produced by capitalism itself, possibly superseding in the process poverty in its previous...

The PSID has included extensive information on pensions, wealth, consumption/expenditures, health, and other relevant domains in various years since the survey began in 1968. All of these domains are measured in the last several waves. The goals of this conference are to bring together scholars...

This Forum provides the key platform for information and exchange on the most important regional social security trends and priority issues in Africa. Topics : Administration & management, About social security, Managing reforms, Extending coverage, Disability, Health, Employment policies,...

This conference will focus on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical research which is meant to contribute to this debate, based on a careful analysis of existing constraints and relevant goals. Papers dealing with one or more of the following issues are particularly welcome. - Welfare state...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Socio-economic networks - Network generation mechanisms in socio-economic models - Evolutionary networks - Complex systems and emergent networks - Tools for network dynamics - Games on Networks

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.

Conference themes We are interested in high-quality papers that provide new insights on impact evaluation in the following development policy areas: - Health and Education - Public Service Delivery - Micro Finance and Micro Insurance Policy - Agriculture - Aid (Macro and Fiscal Impact) - Foreign...