The creation of productive jobs for both men and women are essential preconditions for the achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on decent work and gender equality. This WIDER Development Conference provides a forum to discuss innovative, theoretical, and empirical research and its...

Topics: Agriculture; Child labor; Children and youth; Culture; Disability; Disadvantaged groups; Economic development; Education; Empowerment strategies; Ethnic studies; Food production and safety; Gender issues; Labor market policies; Literacy; Micro-finance; Minorities; Pension Reforms;...

ICETD 2013, aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Economics, Trade and Development, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

We invite theoretical contributions on the study of developing countries, with a possible emphasis on the political economy of underdevelopment. Topics include but are not restricted to: - unequal growth and its aftermath - the political economy of rural-urban transformation - property rights -...

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