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  1. ALCADECA Conference – Submission Deadline Extended to March 17

    …under a single theme. The sessions will be 90 minutes long, and so will accommodate 3 or 4 component papers. Each panel should have a coordinator who submits an abstract for the panel of up to 500 words in English, Spanish or Portuguese with 3-5 keywords. In addition, an abstract of similar characteristics should accompany each of the component papers of the proposed panel. Please send your submission to alcadeca2016@iecon.ccee.edu.uy Important D…

  2. Call for Papers: Health and Poverty – 2020 Salzburg Conference

    …conference folder, a guided city tour on Friday, coffe breaks, two lunch snacks and the conference dinner on Thursday. Students as well as particpiants from countries classified as low-income or lower-middle income economies by the World Bank pay a subsidized fee of 75€. Conference website: https://www.poverty-conference.org/…

  3. WEBINAR: Capability as informational basis for work and employment politics – a European re-search experience

    …firm and in institutions of vocational training, – The capability for work-life-balance – arbitrating the requirements of paid work and care work in the househould, – The capability for voice – in all of these domains of regulation. “Ten years after”, Peter Bartelheimer, Jean-Michel Bonvin and Bénédicte Zimmermann look back at the conceptual “takeaway” of the CAPRIGHT network and reflect on refinements and further developments in their subsequent…

  4. Call for Papers: 2018 Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty

    …nathan Wolff (Oxford) 17 & 18 May 2018, University of Salzburg www.workshop-poverty-philosophy.org Deadline for Submissions: 15 December 2017 The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg is happy to announce the call for papers for its “2018 Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty”. In 2018, the workshop will be held at the University of Salzburg on 17 & 18 May 2018 and focus on the topic of “Poverty and the…

  5. Conference- Absolute Poverty in Europe

    …and Against Poverty (ASAP). Find more information on the project homepage: www.uni-salzburg.at/zea/absolutepoverty About the Keynote Speakers: David Hulme is Professor and at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. He is also Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, and CEO of both the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre and the Brazil in Africa Research Programme. Previously, he…

  6. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes

    …, Mikateko Mathebula & Patience Mukwambo https://www.africanminds.co.za/low-income-students/ This book explores learning outcomes for low-income rural and township youth at five South African universities. The book is framed as a contribution to southern and Africa-centred scholarship, adapting Amartya Sen’s capability approach and a framework of key concepts: capabilities, functionings, context, conversion factors, poverty and agency to investiga…

  7. Call for Papers: Workshop on Gender and Poverty

    …Extended submission deadline: 20 January 2019 Website: https://www.workshop-poverty-philosophy.org/ The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) of the University of Salzburg is happy to announce the call for papers for its 2019 Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty. The workshop will be held at the University of Salzburg on 27 & 28 June 2019 and focus on the topic of “Gender and Poverty”. There is no conference fee. Coffee breaks and t…

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