Broad themes of the conference are: a) Development and Livelihood b) Environment and Sustainability c) International Trade and Growth d) Recent Issues in Financial Economics e) Gender Discrimination, Social Exclusion and Development

Conference Theme “World Financial Crisis and Global Business Challenges” The GBMF 2009 Conference is going to be organized to discuss and deliberate these emerging issues and challenges for the sustainable growth and expectations of the countries, organizations and people of the world.

EERC's semi-annual research workshops are designed to promote peer-review and exchange of ideas among junior CIS researchers and a cadre international resource persons. The workshops also constitute a transparent project evaluation mechanism, with specialized teams of distinguished international...

The overall objective of the seminar is the establishment of a strengthened and effective sub regional trade union organization. The seminar will particularly focus on: - Strengthening ATUC participation and involvement in ILO ASEAN programmes - Measures to strengthen ATUC structures for it to...

Employment is a key aspect of inclusive and sustainable development and this conference will deal with the following key labor market issues: - short and medium term outlook for jobs; - informal and non-regular employment; - unemployment insurance and social policy in developing Asia; -...

The broad topic of the conference is ‘International Economics’. This includes, inter alia, the areas of Trade, International Factor Movements, Economic Integration, Trade Policy, International Trade Organizations, Economic Growth of Open Economies, Multinational Firms, International...

UNU-WIDER is collaborating with African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) on the WIDER project, African Development: Myths and Realities. We invite submissions of substantive papers for the above conference on topics bearing directly on African economic development as related to the...

The main objective of the workshop is to help the leaders of local governments and national level policy makers develop a strategic approach in dealing with environmental and social issues facing businesses. This can be achieved by: - Demonstrating the potentials of transforming SME clusters...

Topics: 1. Competitive identity of Western Balkan countries 2. Economic Development strategies 3. SME development during transitions 4. Labour market evolution in transition countries 5. Destination management and investment promotion 6. Sustainable development and social responsibility 7....

This conference calls for papers that directly address the significance of economic nationalism in Asia in an era of changing global capitalism. The central questions that this conference will try to address are how economic nationalism has changed in the last 30 years in Asia and where and how...