Conference key themes: - Urban and regional resilience, - Small cities after decline, - Small cities in non-core areas: local, regional and national policies on their shrinking and/or revival, - Local self-government and inter-budgetary relations, - Strategies and instruments of re-growth and...

This second IZA/Higher School of Economics workshop will bring together labor economists who are working on labor market adjustment in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Central Asian former Soviet Republics and China. While the main focus of the workshop is on the specified topic,...

Rethinking the Region and Regionalism in Australasia seeks contributions from researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in all areas of regional analysis, especially those focussed on Australasia. Themes of interest to the conference include: - Regions at the end of the mining boom; -...