Program: Session A: - Forever Young? Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa, - Invisible Workers: Exploring the Links etween Employment and Pathways out of Poverty, Session B: - Direct and Indirect Effects of Malawi’s Public Works Program on Food Security, - Seasonal...

The conference is an activity of the IZA/DFID Program on Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries (GLM-LIC). The goal of the conference is to bring together academic researchers, policy makers, and representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations involved in training...

IZA and DFID organize the first workshop in their joint program on growth and labor markets in low-income countries. The GLM-LIC program aims to improve worldwide knowledge on labor market issues in low-income countries and provide a solid basis for capacity building and the development of...

In 2010, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre’s (CPRC) ten years of poverty research will be celebrated with this mega-conference. The conference aims at bringing together leading researchers on poverty in an attempt to understand and synthesize the contemporary ‘state of the art’ in...

The main topics of this conference include, but are not limited to: - Agricultural risk analysis and management, such as: Agricultural risk identification; agricultural risk analysis and assessment; modeling agricultural risk; agricultural risk management: methods and strategy - Agricultural...

The objective of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring experts from different social sciences and policy backgrounds to discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of this second approach to poverty persistence.