The Symposium will start by considering the significance of mobility in developing regions, including relevant cultural aspects. The following panel will explore ways of promoting mobility in developing regions in a sustainable manner. As the next step, sustainable mobility will be considered in...

We are looking for original empirical and theoretical contributions that have implications for concrete policy recommendations in any of the four broad areas outlined below: 1. The necessity of a new global development agenda. 2. The content and purpose of a new global development agenda. 3....

The seminar aims to establish an informal network of young scholars in the field of development economics. Doctoral students from DIW Berlin/Humboldt University Berlin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Frankfurt University, Heidelberg University, Georg-August-Göttingen University, Mannheim University and...

The central theme of the conference will be the consequences of and the lessons to be learnt from the economic and political rise of new global actors, including countries like China and India. The resulting power shifts and the strengthening of interactions between developing countries have...

The insights of behavioural economics have begun to be applied to development economics and in particular to the behaviour of poor households in poor economies. Does poverty promote departures from the standard text book model of rational choice? Do such departures in turn promote poverty and...

Submissions of papers consistent with one of the conference topics, or their interaction, or with related issues such as corruption, social benefit fraud, and other illicit economic activities are welcome. Papers may be theoretical, empirical, experimental, agent-based, etc.

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with the keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with contributed papers will reflect the current state of research in development economics and provide...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. The main topic of this course (Professor James A. Robinson, Harvard University) is recent developments in political economy, particularly the political economy of institutions. Much recent...