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  1. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. A Sociological Perspective

    …d issues in the Global South such as closing labor-productivity gaps in low-income countries and ways to increase aid for trade support for developing countries. – The effects of lack of decent jobs, coupled with weak social insurance schemes and poverty among the workers (working poor and precarity). – Equality and inclusion at work during the COVID-19 pandemic, including challenges of employment in the informal economy. – Technological challenge…

  2. Audio / Video Resources

    …org/videos/2022-hdca-annual-members-meeting 2024 HDCA Conference, Kolkata, India: Videos Keynote Lectures 2024 2023 HDCA Global Dialogue Week (online) Videorecordings 2023 HDCA Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria: Videos Keynote Lectures 2023 2022 HDCA Conference, Antwerp, Belgium: Videos Keynote Lectures 2022 2021 HDCA Global Dialogue (online) Videorecordings 2020 HDCA Conference, Auckland, NZ (online): Videos Keynote Lectures 2020 2019 HDCA Conference,…

  3. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone

    by Jean Dreze, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Ranchi University, India A wide-ranging collection of articles on social development in India authored by prominent economist and expert Jean Dreze Includes a detailed introduction on the basic principles of ‘research for action’ Provides a retrospective on social policy debates in India during the last 15 years A unique insight into social development in India Jean Dreze, development ec…

  4. JHDC Special Issue Call for Papers – Communities and Capabilities

    …ders the importance of freedom of choice, individual heterogeneity and multi-dimensional nature of welfare. Human capabilities are constructed in terms of the substantive freedoms people have a reason to value, rather than of their utility or access to resources. It emphasizes not only the way human beings actually function but also their capability, which is a practical choice that will allow them to function in important ways, if they wish to do…

  5. Latin American Network: Introduction

    …atin America both in Spanish and Portuguese. It has organized a number of bi-annual conferences that had taken place in different cities in the region such as México City (2006, Universidad Iberoamericana), Montevideo (2008, 2016, Universidad de la República), Porto Alegre (2010, Pontificia Universidad de Rio Grande do Sul), Buenos Aires (2012, Universidad Lomas de Zamora), Lima (2014, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and Puebla (2019, Un…

  6. WEBINAR: From Human Development to Sustainable Human Development

    …es in relation to (un)sustainable development, climate change and the SDGs — for example: (1) with A.V. Portocarrero, A.L. St.Clair, 1a) 2013: The Framing of Climate Change and Development: A Comparative Analysis of the Human Development Report 2007/8 and the World Development Report 2010. Global Environmental Change, 23(1): 28-39; 1b) 2013: An Analysis of the Human Development Report 2011 ‘Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All’. S….

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