This conference will explore the inter-relationships between migration, immigrant integration, and development. The intent is to bring to the foreground issues that are often lost when we discuss these general topics in isolation from one another. In this way we hope to uncover new aspects of...

Workshop topics include: - The concept and measurement of entrepreneurship in the context of developing countries. - The channels through which entrepreneurship drives economic structural transformation and growth and institutional development. - The advantages and disadvantages of small, micro,...

Against the background of Africa’s increased strategic significance as a 900-million people continent, with a vast resource export potential and slowly transforming socio-political scene, the lecture will critically review South Africa’s rise as the dominant economic power of the continent....

The themes of the Eleventh Annual Conference are: - Globalization and economies in transition; - Development, poverty and vulnerability; - Energy and environment; and - Wealth, aging and income distribution

A number of countries are cited more often than others as examples of development success. These countries are believed to have policies and institutions that could be instructive to less successful countries both within their own regions, and elsewhere in the developing world. As such they...

The theme of the 2008 Annual Meeting, “The United Nations and the Global Development Architecture” has been chosen to encourage ACUNS members to consider how the UN, its associated bodies and agencies, other international organizations, regional groupings, national governments,...

Papers/proposals are expected to give an edge cutting direction on the way forward in the African-European relationship. Key decision makers from all over the world, public and private sector as well as multinational corporations are invited to speak at this event set to explode some investment...

Die Welthungerhilfe, das GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies und der Senat der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg laden gemeinsam zum Symposium „Afrika – Befreiung aus der Armutsfalle? Ein Dialog zwischen Politik, Wissenschaft und Zivilgesellschaft“ ein. Diskutiert werden...