The objective of the conference is to further our understanding of developments in the area of income levels, income growth, productivity, poverty and inequality in the Arab world, from an empirical and measurement perspective. The conference will feature sessions dealing with problems and...

Sowohl die Verteilung von Einkommen als auch die von Vermögen entwickeln sich in Deutschland seit Jahren auseinander. Warum gestaltet es sich politisch so schwierig, auch in wirtschaftlich "guten Zeiten" die Schere bei Einkommen und Vermögen zumindest nicht weiter aufgehen zu lassen? Welche...

TOPIC: The emergence of social preferences.

All submissions, from both academics and practitioners,are welcome but particularly those focussing on the following issues: (1) Administration and Public Policy: Welfare state, Elderly care (including facilities, community care and in-home services for the older people), Spatial planning and...

The fair-conference “Volunteering in Latvia – Experience and Prospects” is organized towards the EU program’s “Europe for Citizens” international project “Volunteering - Code of Active Citizenship” implemented under Kaunas University of Technology management. The aim of the...

The conference is open to all academics, and we hope for a good mix of PhD students, postdocs, lecturers and professors. The conference welcomes those from any discipline germane to stratification and social policy; i.e. political science, sociology, economics, demography, and social psychology....

The aim of the 2015 ESPAnet Italy’s eighth conference is to integrate the historical analysis of Italian social policies with the cross-sectional comparison of new welfare systems emerging both in Europe and throughout the world. The idea underlying the conference consists of historically...

Topics: - The Making of Civil Society in Africa - Civil Society and Democratic Governance in Africa - Civil Society and the Challenge of African Development - Civil Society and the African Integration project - Civil Society and the Donor System in Africa - Civil Society and the Aid System in...

The HDCA conference aims to bring together people from all over the world from different disciplines and fields interested in the field of human development and the capabilities approach. Papers on the 2015 conference theme ‘aspirations and mobility’ may explore, amongst others, the...

The theme for the ESPAnet 2015 conference is “The lost and new worlds of welfare”. The conference invites proposals for streams and papers that address issues across the full range of comparative welfare state research, from various disciplinary perspectives. Suggestions for Stream Themes -...