The conference will convene development practitioners, policy experts and academic researchers from around the world to examine the ways in which the food and fuel price volatility, financial market volatility and global economic slowdown are affecting children and youth in both developing and...

This stream covers papers on the theme of efficiency and productivity analysis and performance management. Both parametric and non-parametric papers will be considered. We especially welcome papers on the theory, methodology and application of data envelopment analysis and econometric methods in...

The Conference is intended to provide a forum for the dissemination of recent research on growth and business cycles from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Issues such as inflation, the credit crunch and loss of a confidence in the economy means this conference will come at a crucial time and delegates will have the opportunity to debate these key topics with some of the UK's leading economic commentators. Whilst the economic crisis continues to...