Conference Themes: I. Conceptual Referential II. Agriculture and World Trade III. Rural Development and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources IV. Sustainable Rural Development, Food Security and Governance V. Promotion of World Food Security VI. Promotion of Sustainable Rural...

Themes: - Providing health insurance to the poor - The African microinsurance experience - Scientific track – Economic analysis of microinsurance markets

Financial services customers are using more and more channels – such as call centres, online banking etc. This trend looks permanent, but must be managed carefully and efficiently, as the cost of using more channels continues to grow. This year’s Efma Congress will therefore look at the...

The conference will be organized around a number of themes on the following broad issues: 1. Innovation, education, health, inequality and development 2. Population dynamics, gender equity, migration and development 3. Agriculture, fishing, biofuel, energy systems, water supply, transport,...

The development of the regions depends on their territorial capital and on the networks and flows that are rooted in them. Networks and development is a seminal theme of regional science. List of Parallel Sessions: - Strategies for development - Networks and regional development - Urban and...

Conference topics: A. Heterodox Approaches of Sustainable Development B. International institutions and sustainable development C. Social sustainability : content and relevance D. Considering the environmental dimension

The World Conference on ESD is one of UNESCO's four global Education Conferences organised in 2008-2009 to discuss education priorities.

Topics: - focusing specifically on the types of financial products and services sold online - analysing the basis of their online offering - should they be content to reproduce existing services or should they use their online offering to innovate, by devising products for sale specifically...

Many African governments favour a robust investment climate. Within the context of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the APRM Secretariat is working on improving the investment-climate content of Africa’s own peer review mechanism. African countries are also looking for more...

Over the last few years, bankers have created innovative, and even futuristic, branch concepts, in the same way that the major car manufacturers develop concept cars. How does one now move from the experimental branch to a format that can be adopted in the form of a local branch, where the...