ISDEHS 2006 is meant to be the first of a series of symposia intended to create an ongoing dialogue between researchers and policy makers from the Arab world with the global scientific community as well as to reposition the ongoing desertification debate within the context of human...

Bisher gibt es in Deutschland kaum Verbindungen zwischen politischen Protestbewegungen gegen neoliberale Globalisierung und Sozialabbau oder Erwerbsloseninitiativen einerseits und Projekten Solidarischer Ökonomie andererseits. Wir laden Menschen aus den verschiedensten sozialen Bewegungen und...

Suggested topics: - Is the external debt of developing countries sustainable? - Foreign or domestic financing? - Which international financial architecture?

Conference Themes: - The role of Universities, Scientific and Media Institutions in qualifying Planners as well as enhancing Planning knowledge. - Aspects of Finance and Management in planning and development. - International and Arab experience in planning and development. - Planning within...

The conference will have three main themes: 1. The Private Sector and Agriculture and Rural Development 2. Trade Links to the Private Sector and Poverty Reduction 3. Business, Finance and Poverty Reduction

Topics: • the impact of globalization on organizational change • international organizations as organizational change agents • the diffusion of organizational change practice • implementing organizational change in transitional countries • developing organizational change practice •...

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...

A suggestive list of categories may be: - market regulation - market structure (sectoral/inter-sectoral, labor/product) - governance - role/implication of the public sector - fairness, justice, distribution - labor market regulation and welfare systems - financial sector - international context...

The conference is designed to achieve three mutually supportive objectives: 1. Build a strong regional network of reformers who will share information and experiences, provide mutual support, and spread proven techniques of promoting freedom and creating and mobilizing constituencies for liberal...

The first World Congress on Communication for Development will focus on demonstrating that communication for development is an essential ingredient for meeting today’s most pressing development challenges and, as such, should be more fully integrated in development policy and practice.