PEP General Meetings are international events that gather hundreds of participants – development economist, researchers and practitioners - from around the world, joining to both learn and share knowledge on the most recent methodologies, concepts and findings in poverty and economic policy...

Conference Theme: ‘Quality of Life and Environment’ In the last decades, quality of life has become a central issue for those who plan and study cities or places where people live in response to growing pressures on urban communities, concern about the impacts of urbanisation and the effects...

Topics: 1. Analysis of the impacts of climate change on agriculture: simulations and projections 2. Climate change and sustainability of agricultural production systems 3. Adaption strategies for agriculture in the face of climate change: systems of production, risks in agriculture, and policies...

This Forum will provide a key platform for the sharing of information and discussion of the most important regional social security trends and priority issues in Africa. A unique networking opportunity, the Forum will bring together social security administrators, policy-makers and international...

The purpose of the Conference will be to deepen on-going reflection on how to measure well-being and the progress of societies, enhance the relevance of measures and analysis for addressing key policy issues, and lead to concrete outputs, such as establishing frameworks for future work. It will...

The main objective of the conference is to take stock of the state of current research and identify knowledge gaps: - How can poverty data be used to compare the situation in different industrialized nations? - What are the scope and the limitations of such comparisons? - How can we define the...

Gemeinsam mit Ihnen will sich die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung folgenden Fragen nähern: 1) Was ist Wohlstand/gesellschaftlicher Fortschritt? 2) Was sind die Quellen des Wachstums der Zukunft? 3) Wie werden aus Finanzinvestitionen (mehr) reale Investitionen? Ziel ist es, eine Auseinandersetzung mit...

Das Thema der Tagung lautet: “Wachstum – Fortschritt – Lebensqualität: (k)eine Geschlechterfrage?“. Im Mittelpunkt der diesjährigen efas-Fachtagung werden somit Fragen zu der Bedeutung der Geschlechterverhältnisse für die Entwicklung alternativer Wirtschafts- und...

Ein erfolgreicher Klimaschutz benötigt das Engagement aller. Viele Akteure zeigen auf unterschiedlichen Wegen, wie diese Herausforderung zu meistern ist. Welche Rolle dabei gezielte Kooperationen und eine intensive Vernetzung von Städten, Gemeinden und Kreisen spielen, steht im Mittelpunkt der...

Theoretical and empirical papers on the measurement and analysis of economic insecurity and vulnerability, and the implications for economic growth, well-being and policies, are solicited.