The workshop is aimed at bringing together scholars involved with various aspects of banking in the Europe's emerging markets, as well as emerging markets elsewhere. We will discuss the current issues concerning banking in these countries, regulation challenges, financial crisis influence on...

Topics: - Analysing the implementation challenges of policies - Analysing water governance research for impact on policy action and decision making - Effective and sustainable national and transnational water governance - Governing trade-offs within the water, energy, food and the environment...

Mini-conferences: - New theoretical perspectives in economic sociology - Money, finance and society - Organizations and institutions in emerging markets - Emergence and Innovation in Markets and Organizations - Gender and work transformation - Market society and moral order - Performing economy...

Discussions will centre on Russia’s position in addressing domestic and global challenges. The economic, political and social reforms taking place in Russia now are of great interest to the world community, which recognizes that growth should be inclusive and that all efforts to restore...

Program: Session A: Fertility in Russia Session B: Migrants and their Behavior in Central Asia and Russia Session C: Retirement and Consumption Session D: Invited Policy Lecture Session E: Informality and Self-Employment Session F: Minimum Wages in Russia Session G: Education and Labor Market...

The purpose of this workshop is to promote the use of advanced economic analysis (both theoretical and applied) in the field of natural resources, energy, and the environment, and their interaction with economic development. The objective is to gather a set of high-quality contributions that...

This year the conference will focus on two themes: Innovation in the context of rural areas and Mordernising the rural economy. Within these two policy streams several topics will be discussed, including: - Skill building - moving from lifetime employment to lifetime employability in rural...

Conference Theme: “Challenges Beyond 50 Years of Agricultural Economics in South Africa” Specific challenges: - Strategic agribusiness development and management - Appropriate technology / information - Agricultural food value chains - Sustainable livelihoods through rural agricultural...

The workshop is a result of an on-going Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project on Microfoundations of Access to Finance: Demand-side Perspectives in South Africa at the University of Central Lancashire. The workshop organisers welcome papers, articles and case studies on topics...

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...