Topics are focused on recent challenges to modern national economies and business enterprises: - Globalization and Challenges of the Modern World - Enterprise in Turbulent Environment - Entrepreneurship Caught Between Creativity and Bureaucracy

The conference welcomes proposals for presentations that advance our understanding of any of the following themes: - The mosaic of class, race, and gender. - Class, power, and social structure. - Class and community. - Class in a global economy. - Middle class? Working class? What's the...

Topic: Sharing Prosperity, Delivering Results UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs and World Bank leaders discussed what it will take to boost income growth among the bottom 40%.

Under the theme of "Land Governance in the Post-2015 Agenda: Harnessing Synergies for Implementation and Monitoring Impact", the 2014 conference will focus on building a shared understanding of best practices in land governance. By providing an opportunity to strengthen collaboration between...

The ECINEQ conference will provide a forum for a rigorous analysis of inequality, welfare and redistribution issues, both at the theoretical and at the empirical level, as well as for a discussion of the policy implications of the research findings in this field.

The conference theme centers on the reality that investing in women’s status globally is important not only for women themselves but is critical to the economic and social well-being of entire communities, institutions, and nations. For example, improving women’s economic opportunities...

This invitation-only conference will bring together 8-10 scholars from around the country who are doing state-of-the-art qualitative research, practitioners in policy evaluation firms, and IRP's own substantial group of qualitative researchers. Participants will make short presentations in one...

Just two days after his reelection, President Bush announced that Social Security reform would be a top priority for his second term. The president’s commitment to tackling the "third rail of American politics" promises to be one of the most important domestic policy debates of...

The conference, to be held in San Fransisco, will bring together business leaders, entrepreneurs and senior policymakers to share hands-on experience of proven, profitable, and innovative approaches for a more active and beneficial presence at the bottom of the pyramid. The conference is aimed...