The conference will address cross-sectoral issues and aspects related to sustainable management of sectors like agriculture, industry, energy and transport; as well as the adoption of sustainable life styles reducing individual ecological footprints, equity concerns, and strategies for poverty...

Conference theme: There seems to be dynamism and drive in Africa. The continent’s average growth is almost five times the Euro zone average growth and some of the world’s fastest growing economies are in Sub Saharan Africa. Some observers believe that Africa will play an increasingly...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

The central theme of the conference will be the consequences of and the lessons to be learnt from the economic and political rise of new global actors, including countries like China and India. The resulting power shifts and the strengthening of interactions between developing countries have...

By invitation only.

Specific issues that the workshop will explore include preference elicitation, the importance of individual altruistic preferences, cultural transmission and social motivations for pro-welfare behaviour to arise. This workshop will address the social motivations and welfare, inequality aversion,...

All CESifo Research Network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the domains of employment and social protection. Both domains are to be broadly defined, the former including, in particular, issues of the organisation of labour. The latter domain, in...