The Conference theme is: "Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and education". We invite you to submit an abstract in the range of the following streams within the ICSD2016 program: 1. Economic Sustainability: Financial Sustainability, SME,...

Topics: - Policy factors affecting entry mode, location and operations of FDI in developing countries - Inward FDI and upgrading within global value chains: assessing the evidence - Inter-firm linkages and spillovers from FDI: describing the transmission channels - Growing dynamism in...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for graduate students and young researchers who are working in the field of development and international economics. This year the focus will be on the formation and the role of formal and informal institutions in developing...

We welcome economic or econometric contributions on the following and related issues: - National safety as a public good - Strategic behavior and credible commitments (initiated by Thomas Schelling) - The theory of conflicts (initiated by Gordon Tullock, Jack Hirshleifer and Kai Konrad) - Theory...

In many societies, a large fraction of the population is involved in philanthropic activities like charitable giving or volunteering, as recipients or providers. Accompanying this are significant levels of public support for such activities. Yet in spite of this, the evidence base is inadequate....

The ISA Forum of Sociology is designed as a mid-term meeting of Research Committees, Working Groups and Thematic Groups combined with the Business Meeting of the ISA Research Council. The International Sociology Association is a non-profit association for scientific purposes in the field of...

The workshop, organized within the 20th ICABR Conference, will bring together academics and development practitioners on issues related to international development. Topics: - Agricultural transformation and rural development; - Entrepreneurship and private sector development; - Development and...

Topics: - Historical analysis of growth successes and failures - Specificity of development paths - Institutions and economic development - Institutions and growth constraints - Culture and economic development - The language and the rhetoric of economic development - Economic cooperation and...

The conference is devoted to investigating ways in which international migration affects economic and social change in developing countries. Possible topics include the effects of migration on poverty, inequality, and human capital formation; social networks and migration; diaspora...

The conference is open to economists, social scientists, experimental economists and psychologists, philosophers, theologians, historians. Some of the issues that well be discussed: - empirical/lab evidence about the role of vulnerability in economic, organizational and social interactions -...