The conference strives to expand the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs, improve understanding of the interplay between development and quantity and quality of work, and advance the discussion on the most effective policies to improve jobs outcomes in low- and middle-income countries....

In addition to mitigating climate change, adapting to its consequences will be an important challenge in the future. Priorities must be set when implementing adaptation measures, as societies are unable to implement all desirable measures at once due to scarce resources. Techniques that help to...

The Conference will include invited plenary debates and panel discussions on population and sustainable development issues as well as over 240 scientific sessions featuring the results of recent research from around the globe. Sessions will cover a wide range of topics including international...

Papers on all aspects of African economic history are welcome, but preference will be given to those that pertain to the conference theme.

The study of African economic history has reached a tipping point. With few exceptions, quantitative investigations into Africa’s economic past were limited to the study of aggregated macro-economic variables – production, taxation and exports – published in colonial reports and available...

The public finances of African governments in the colonial and post-independence periods have been the subject of substantial new research in recent years. Within the broader field of African economic history, the fiscal history of the continent has yielded insights into the capacity and aims of...

This event will be led by a number of locally-based presenters and aims to cover the core material of labour economics as required by those researching in this area or teaching at the postgraduate level. There will be five focused sessions: - schooling and earnings; - discrimination; - labour...

The IEHA welcomes sessions on all topics in economic history, history of economics, demographic history, social history, urban history, cultural history, gender studies, methodological aspects of historical research, and related fields, the WEHC 2012 theme is “Exploring the Roots of...

Forum Sessions: - Developments and trends in social security - Demographic challenges - Governance and management - Extension of social security coverage - Focus on Africa - Social Security Summit

As the sixth ERSA Economic History event, the ERSA/FRESH Conference is part of a broader initiative to encourage new research on African topics, as well as other developing regions. In line with this, and in support of the Society’s journal, Economic History of Developing Regions, the topic...