As part of the continuing effort of capacity building in policy making in the area of pensions, the World Bank is pleased to announce a Regional Conference on Pension Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa. The objective of the conference is to provide the participating countries with an...

The conference will assess current welfare statistics and demonstrate the relevance of these figures to existing and future welfare practices and reforms. Topics covered will include ageing and aged care, children, youth and families, welfare expenditure, labour force, housing and homelessness.

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We seek high-quality academic work from fields such as economics, sociology and political science. We are particularly interested in studies that provide cross-national comparisons or assessments of country-specific institutional reforms with policy relevance such as: public and child care; tax...

This conference will provide an opportunity to: • Present emerging research analyzing the effects of these changes in Southern European countries • Bring together researchers from these countries to analyze specific reforms and the policy lessons that they provide • Develop a future...

The topic of this year's conference is: Behavioral Economics: Challenges to policy makers and financial institutions. We invite submissions in all areas of behavioural and experimental economics that are relevant for the tasks of de Nederlandsche Bank, including financial stability, financial...

The Prize Jean-Jacques Laffont, created in 2005 by the City of Toulouse in partnership with IDEI rewards every year in autumn, an international high level economist whose research, in the spirit of Professor Jean-Jacques Laffont, combines both the theoretical and applied aspects of economics....

There will be one traditional pension day in the fall of 2007. We urge researchers from all themes to gather for this opening of the new academic year.

The main questions at the workshop include: • How did the relationship of welfare state policies on one hand, and the organisation of different forms of work on the other, develop as a consequence of welfare reform in European societies? • Which kinds of tensions have developed in this...