The conference will provide a platform for local and international scholars and prefessionals to convue, discuss, and share new and different perspectives regarding issues, challenges and inovations in the Islamic and conventional microfinance. The web site is no longer available.

The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the worldwide development and their weight will increase further . They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments and policies in the region. This...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Course Summary: The course (Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago) will examine the global credit crisis, including the deep underlying causes, the more immediate fragilities in the financial...

Theme: Climate change, food security and resilience of food and agricultural systems in developing countries: Mitigation and adaptation options. The objective of this seminar is to bring together agricultural economists and other scientists working in the field of rural and agricultural...

Join regulators, risk and capital managers, bankers and institutional investors in London this November for Preparing for Basel III - the first of Euromoney Seminars’ events on Basel III, where they will discuss how capital can be raised in a way that suits all parties and the methods by which...

Topics of interest include: - Technical change and the environment - Sectoral and macroeconomic effects of IT on energy demand - Productivity gains and cost savings through Green IT - Green IT innovations - Energy and resource use of IT products over their life cycle - Smart grids and transport...

The CDRR aims to strengthen the capabilities of participants in the field of natural disaster prevention, especially hydrometeorological disasters and/or those related to climate change. To achieve this, the course favours an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to the issue. This focuses...

Welchen Stand haben Energieeffizienzmaßnahmen in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen und wie wirken sie sich auf die Beschäftigung in den jeweiligen Unternehmen aus? Gibt es Vorreiter und was kann man von ihnen lernen? Der Workshop präsentiert erste Forschungsergebnisse des Forschungsvorhabens...

The workshop discusses recent research that evaluates passive and active labour market policies. Theoretical, empirical, experimental and policy-oriented contributions are welcome.

In this seminar we offer central bankers with expertise in this field the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the theoretical and practical aspects of recent challenges to macroprudential policy and to share experience with their peers. The topics covered in the event will fit within the...