We encourage submissions on any aspect of the pandemic including, for example, measuring its effects and the social and economic disruptions that it has and will create: discrimination and a possible sharpening of inequities, and the differential vulnerability or resilience of specific groups...

Papers are invited in the following theme areas: - National Accounts; - Productivity; - Poverty and Inequality; - Human Capital and Education; - Regional Integration and Global Value Chains; - Well-being, including Health, Food Security and Hunger; - Labour market, Skills and Jobs; - Structural...

The objective of this conference is to advance the debate on the measurement of well-being, both at the macro and micro levels, through an examination of past experiences and the identification of future challenges.

The following issues will be addressed: - Agricultural practices that increase the availability of food for poor people, e.g. production for domestic use; land reform, reduction of post-harvest losses; strengthening peri-urban agriculture; sustainable productivity increase, etc. - Policies for...

Topics: - Determinants and causes of poverty and its changes - Consequences and impacts of poverty on human capital formation, growth, consumption and so on - Assessment of poverty strategies and policies - The role of government, NGOs and other institutions in poverty reduction - Rural-urban...

The main objectives of the Forum are to further the discussions on the different aspects that make for a good life today and in the future in different countries of the world and to promote the development and use of new measures of well-being for effective and accountable policy-making. Thus,...

The purpose of the Society is to promote the advancement of knowledge in social choice and welfare economics, broadly defined, and to facilitate communication among researchers from numerous disciplines working on social choice and welfare economics.

This Forum will provide a key platform for the sharing of information and discussion of the most important regional social security trends and priority issues in the Asia-Pacific region. A unique networking opportunity, the Forum will bring together social security administrators, policy-makers...

UPUEA’s Conference is an annual affair, having participation of practitioners, teachers, policy makers and scholars in the field of economics. The conference deliberates each year upon issues related to the broader area of economics. The seventh edition of the conference will deliberate upon...

The Theme: 'Production, Reproduction, Protection in the Welfare State' The 2011 RC19 meeting brings together leading scholars in the field of comparative welfare state studies from different parts of the world and encompassing a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, social policy and...