Among the topics which could be addressed are · cost functions of payment and settlement operators · costs of fragmentation and efficiency implications of unifying payment systems · pricing strategies of payment services and their welfare implications · consolidation in the payments industry...

This year looks set to be an eventful one for the water industry. Companies will be implementing their investment programmes as agreed during PR04, and the need for effective business plans will be essential in seeing them through the coming years. On the agenda as well is the Water Framework...

Papers may address any aspect of the social, cultural, economic, technological, ecological and political history of transport, traffic and mobility. However, preference will generally be given to those focussing on the historical relationship between tourism and transport, traffic and mobility.

- Efficiency of and challenges for regional policy at supranational, national and sub-national level (investment mix, equity versus efficiency, macroeconomic impact assessments) - Regional growth differentials: growth centres versus dispersion - Regional convergence and catching-up, new...

IBC Global Conferences is pleased to announce an important two day event designed to bring together traders, producers and bankers and to examine new, Basel II friendly, ways of structuring transactions. If you are involved in structured commodity and trade finance, this is a must attend event...

In recent years there has been much debate amongst HR Directors as to how and whether they can truly achieve boardroom recognition. Many still lack the assurance needed to lead and become strategic drivers. Debate will be focused upon the CEO's real expectation of the HRD.

Economist Conferences are convening their fourth annual BPO conference to look at how companies are changing their strategies to take advantage of BPO, why they are doing it and how they are measuring the benefits. At this off-the-record event, senior executives in charge of their company’s...

The ‘New Consensus’, around independent central banks and the use of short-term interest rates as the key instrument of monetary policy, by no means exhausts the range of modern central bank activities or the issues that financial markets pose for the newly consensual monetary...

Most parts of the world have experienced pressures from the globalization of markets in goods and services. The main questions on the agenda of many organizations, both in the private, and public sectors are: How can they meet the challenge of globalization by developing capability to be...

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership process, also referred to as the ‘Barcelona Process’, encompasses politics, security, cultural dialogue, human rights promotion and, as its centrepiece, a planned free-trade area covering all states of the European Union and the non-member states of the...