The conference will assess current welfare statistics and demonstrate the relevance of these figures to existing and future welfare practices and reforms. Topics covered will include ageing and aged care, children, youth and families, welfare expenditure, labour force, housing and homelessness.

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This workshop intends to bring together well-established researchers, Ph.D students working on the topic, and other interested individuals from different countries. The workshop is organized within the framework of the project on Poverty and Social Exclusion in Spain and the EU, which comprises...

We seek high-quality academic work from fields such as economics, sociology and political science. We are particularly interested in studies that provide cross-national comparisons or assessments of country-specific institutional reforms with policy relevance such as: public and child care; tax...

This conference will provide an opportunity to: • Present emerging research analyzing the effects of these changes in Southern European countries • Bring together researchers from these countries to analyze specific reforms and the policy lessons that they provide • Develop a future...

MAIN SUBJECT HEADINGS: NGOs and Government; NGOs and Turkey; NGOs and the European Union; International NGOs; NGOs and Youth; NGOs and Employment; NGOs, Education and University; NGOs and Health; NGOs, Art and Culture; NGOs, Politics and Democracy; NGOs, Development and Economy Global...

The Prize Jean-Jacques Laffont, created in 2005 by the City of Toulouse in partnership with IDEI rewards every year in autumn, an international high level economist whose research, in the spirit of Professor Jean-Jacques Laffont, combines both the theoretical and applied aspects of economics....

The main questions at the workshop include: • How did the relationship of welfare state policies on one hand, and the organisation of different forms of work on the other, develop as a consequence of welfare reform in European societies? • Which kinds of tensions have developed in this...

The objective of the conference is to further our understanding from an empirical perspective of developments in China and other transition economies (e.g. Russia, CIS, Eastern Europe, Vietnam) in the areas of the measurement of growth, productivity and other macroeconomic aggregates, as well as...

The conference builds on the growing global interest in enterprise-based strategies for serving the four billion poor at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP). We expect to bring together 300 of the leading BoP business managers, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, academics, and non-profit...