Broad themes of the conference are: a) Development and Livelihood b) Environment and Sustainability c) International Trade and Growth d) Recent Issues in Financial Economics e) Gender Discrimination, Social Exclusion and Development

EERC's semi-annual research workshops are designed to promote peer-review and exchange of ideas among junior CIS researchers and a cadre international resource persons. The workshops also constitute a transparent project evaluation mechanism, with specialized teams of distinguished international...

The objective of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring experts from different social sciences and policy backgrounds to discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of this second approach to poverty persistence.

Topics of interest include among others: - Objective Measures of Well-being: HDI, ISEW, GPI, versus GDP - Subjective Measures of Well-being: Happiness, Satisfaction, Mental Health, versus Income - Alternative and New Measures of Well-being both at macro and micro level - Leisure Time, Social...

Aims of the conference include: - analyze the theoretical and empirical relationship between social protection, household savings and income drawing from the experiences of various countries.; - analyze the relationship of other related factors such as quality of public governance, demographic...

The conference will convene development practitioners, policy experts and academic researchers from around the world to examine the ways in which the food and fuel price volatility, financial market volatility and global economic slowdown are affecting children and youth in both developing and...

Immer mehr Menschen beschleicht ein Unbehagen gegenüber dem Markt: stetig wachsende Einkommensunterschiede, Gewinnsteigerungen durch Entlassungen, die schleichende Ökonomisierung des Lebens. Doch was genau ist falsch am „freien“ Markt? Warum ist die Marktgesellschaft keine gute...

Die 6. Nutzerkonferenz “Forschung mit dem Mikrozensus” Analysen zur Sozialstruktur und zum sozialen Wandel widmet sich der Untersuchung der Sozialstruktur und des sozialen Wandels in Deutschland. Auf der Basis von Mikrozensusdaten gewonnene Forschungs­ergebnisse sollen vorgestellt und...

The theme of this meeting will be “Household responses to exogenous shocks and policy options: Lessons from crisis episodes” and will prioritize papers on the following (nonexclusive) related topics: - Crisis impacts on poverty, vulnerability, human capital accumulation or well-being -...

In most developing countries most people depend for their livelihood on the “informal economy”. Their incomes come from subsistence farming or from operating small unincorporated enterprises. They may be trading on the street or in markets, selling cooked food from kiosks, scavenging for...