The development landscape has never been static but in these times of uncertainty and insecurity, we are witnessing ever more profound shifts in global relations, inequalities, and forms of exclusion. Dominant trajectories and paths of ‘development’ have led the world to the brink of...

The event promotes scientific research using enterprise microdata on a variety of topics and from different (and inter) disciplinary approaches. Topics: Productivity, Firm dynamics, Resource reallocation and adjustment costs, International trade, Information and communication technology, R&D,...

The following courses will be offered: - Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS; - Energy and Environmental CGE Modeling with GAMS

The creation of productive jobs for both men and women are essential preconditions for the achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on decent work and gender equality. This WIDER Development Conference provides a forum to discuss innovative, theoretical, and empirical research and its...

The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and experience among economists conducting quantitative analysis for policy and decision making in the public and private sectors. The conference will cover all areas of modeling and data science applied to monetary, financial,...

WWe are looking for contributions on the broad theme of economic development in Africa. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: mobile money and financial innovation; natural resource management; the quality of education and health; migration, remittances and the brain drain; the...

We are looking for contributions on the economics of migration in the development context. Topics of interest include but are not limited to brain drain vs. brain gain; the effects of financial and immaterial remittances such as political attitudes and social norms; the determinants of migration...

The topics for discussion span over a wide range of areas relevant to the theory and practice of computational methods, models and empirical analysis for decision-making, with special emphasis this year on Energy and Finance.

Topics: Agriculture; Child labor; Children and youth; Culture; Disability; Disadvantaged groups; Economic development; Education; Empowerment strategies; Ethnic studies; Food production and safety; Gender issues; Labor market policies; Literacy; Micro-finance; Minorities; Pension Reforms;...