For the workshop, we invite PhD-students in sociology and political science to submit abstracts related to the topic of “Ageing Societies and the Welfare State”. The contributions may be qualitative, quantitative, or conceptual. Country-comparative studies are especially welcome.

Topics: - What are good approaches to measure the shortfall risk for individuals and pension plans? - What are appropriate models to measure long-run expected returns, volatilities, and correlations for retirement assets? - How good are individuals at saving for retirement and at managing their...

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...

Conference themes 1 How to overcome the challenges in small countries to provide adequate health coverage 2 The pooling of resources management.

This year’s topic is “New Challenges to Infrastructure Theory and Policy – Markets and Planning, Development and Sustainability”. The sectoral foci are transport, energy, telecommunication & internet, water, waste, and the health sector.

Policy studies increasingly focus on the role of ideas. It is not altogether a new insight that ideas matter in policy making, but it is a new phenomenon that it has become a dominant approach. This Ph.D. course offers a vide variety of theories and methods that theorize on how and under what...

Unter der Schirmherrschaft des Bundesministers für Wirtschaft und Technologie Michael Glos feiert das Praxisforum für das öffentliche Auftragswesen in Deutschland in diesem Jahr sein zehnjähriges Jubiläum. Am 25. und 26. September 2008 kommen unter dem Stichwort "Auftraggeber treffen...

Longevity risk is an increasingly important risk for pension plan and annuity providers and, indeed, individuals to recognize, quantify and manage. It is not such an immediate or even as large a risk as, say, interest rate or inflation risk, two of the key risks that pension funds are now...

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...