The aim of the Globelics Academy PhD School is to support the training of PhD students from all over the world writing theses on issues related to innovation systems and development. The Academy brings together frontier researchers in innovation with PhD students from the South and the North in...

We aim to bring together scholars working on comparative, economic, social, global, and other types of history and related social sciences to address various “East-West” historical processes and events as well as comparative and transnational analysis, including at the Baltic region, Europe,...

The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are low-income countries that face severe structural impediments to sustainable development. These countries are highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks and have low levels of human assets. To help the LDCs address these specific challenges,...

The theme of the conference is “Emerging Technologies in Regional Development”. Topics: Blockchain Solutions in Regional Development; Logistics, supply chain and regional development; Big Data in regional science; Emerging challenges for regional development; Vision and management of...

In accordance with the latest UN guidelines we regret to inform the 2020 WIDER Development Conference has been cancelled.

The theme for the Conference, ‘Real Work in the Virtual World’ addresses the changing contents of work and the upheavals of in current and future work, as well as the changing nature of work across occupations, industries and countries. Work is currently being reorganized globally, with...

The conference will showcase UNU-WIDER, its work, and the many people and institutions that are engaged with it. The conference will hold panel discussions on all of the main themes and findings of UNU-WIDER’s research during 2009-18 — finance, food and climate change; and transformation,...

The key objective of the VBER2018 is to bring together academics, practitioners and policymakers to discuss ongoing research on a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues related to financial development, economic growth, poverty and inequality in the emerging markets. Papers from PhD...

The conference aims at bringing together Nordic and international scholars for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent results within theoretical and applied development economics research. We welcome submissions of individual papers in any field of development economics from researchers...

The purpose of this meeting is to provide an opportunity for the best labor scholars in the Nordic countries to get together and discuss their work. The meeting will contain both contributed and invited papers. The keynote speakers are Christopher Neilson from Princeton University and Imran...