This year's annual LGA finance conference will focus on future public spending and the implications for local government. The conference will hear from the Local Government Association as well as from a panel of leading local authority representatives discussing what this will mean for councils.

Conference Agenda: Session One: EU National Economies: Lessons from last 20 years and models for the future Session Two: The Future of the EU Single Market Session Three: Domestic Security: A new frontier for European integration? Session Four: Can Europe Hope to be a World Leader?

Infrastructure Investment World Asia will discuss the following: - Opportunities available to infrastructure owners, banks and investors as a result of government initiatives - Partnership and investment models suitable for different Asian countries - Seeking alternative capital and financing...

Scholars and PhD students are invited to submit papers on the following themes for the four parallel sessions at the conference: - Global economic recession and China's response - Science, technology, innovation and sustainable development - Politics, social justice, civil society and...

Abstracts are welcome on theoretical, empirical and applied housing research but are particularly welcomed from a sociological or social sciences perspective (broadly and not in any way exhaustive: geography, political science, public policy, social policy, economics, finance, management &...

This year, the Conference theme is Heterodox Economics and Sustainable Development, twenty years on. Sustainable development is the main challenge facing humankind for this century. The recognition of fundamental failures within mainstream economics and discontent amongst people concerned about...

There will be two tracks, the first focussing on economic theory particularly social choice, decision/utility theory, experimental work and economic theory in philosophy. The second track will cover particularly subfields where human welfare is particularly important including health,...

The Summer Institute will bring together between 20 and 30 participants for a period of four days. The first day will be devoted to issues of Chinese economic policy. The next three days, there will be a half-day of seminar presentations and the rest of the day will be free to allow scholars to...

The summer school will include 7 theoretical and 3 thematic seminars, plus 3 lab sessions. It will be emphasizes that sustainable development is a process of learning rather than a static goal. Besides integrating the various dimensions of sustainable development, the integrated analysis of...

The theme of the conference is Chinese Economic Growth in Regional and Global Context. Papers focusing on the conference theme will be given preference, although papers on other topics are also welcome. All fields of specialization within economics are welcome.