The conference will showcase UNU-WIDER, its work, and the many people and institutions that are engaged with it. The conference will hold panel discussions on all of the main themes and findings of UNU-WIDER’s research during 2009-18 — finance, food and climate change; and transformation,...

The conference aims at bringing together Nordic and international scholars for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent results within theoretical and applied development economics research. We welcome submissions of individual papers in any field of development economics from researchers...

Conference topics will include: • concepts and measures of health status • trends in health deprivation and inequality • causes of health deprivation and inequality • link between health and income deprivations • labour market outcomes and health status • nutrition and health •...

Researchers focussing on one or more parts of Asia (South Asia, South East Asia, China and East Asia) are encouraged to submit proposals for papers to be presented at this conference. The organisers are looking particularly for empirical and conceptual studies exploring the impact of...

The interaction between government legislation and policies with the "informal" efforts and livelihoods of people existing in parallel, is crucial to the understanding of development and to the design of policy interventions to reduce poverty.