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...

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 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...

We welcome submissions of full-length papers using micro and macro analyses, theoretical and empirical. Some examples of topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Factors affecting accumulation of human capital (health, education, skills) - Linkages between human capital, demography...

Considering that the conference is a multi-sectoral forum, papers/presentation under each theme will be further determined by the organizing committee. The themes could be developed along the following lines: (i) livelihoods and linking to markets; (ii) cultural issues; (iii) natural resources...

This conference on ‘Inequality – measurement, trends, impacts, and policies’ focuses on the latest developments in the measurement of inequality in income, wealth, and human development, drawing also on advances in measurements in the advanced economies. It will examine what we know about...