GDN #K4SD CfP
The Global Development Network (GDN), the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) and the United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), and the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research/Innovation Campus Bonn are jointly organizing GDN’s 2019 Global Development Conference in Bonn on the general theme of Knowledge for Sustainable Development: The Research-Policy Nexus. The Conference will be held on October 23-25, 2019 with support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The conference will bring together academics, policy-makers, development practitioners, civil society, government officials and private sector representatives from around the world.
For more information on the Call for Papers please follow the GDN link.
Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2019
Labor market performance in the Western Balkans continued to improve, albeit at a slower pace than the previous year and despite stronger economic growth in the region. According to the 'Western Balkans Labor Market Trends 2019' report, recently launched by the World Bank and the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), about 68,000 new jobs were generated between the second quarter of 2017 and the second quarter of 2018, compared to 231,000 a year earlier. In contrast, GDP growth in the region increased from 2.5 percent in 2017 to 3.9 percent in 2018.
For more information please follow the wiiw link.
Public Sector Economics 2019 Conference
The Institute of Public Finance (IPF) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) are organizing the conference Public Sector Economics 2019 – Wealth and property taxation: where do we stand? on 24 October 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia. The goal of the conference is to provide a state-of-the-art assessment of the profession’s thinking on the potentials and limitations of these taxes and their role in the modern economy. We invite submissions of historical reviews, studies of experience, as well as theoretical, empirical and policy papers on different aspects of wealth and property taxation.
The abstract submission deadline is 1 May 2019, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For more information please follow the IJF link.
Infrastructure Investment in the Western Balkans: A First Analysis
wiiw has recently published a joint publication with the European Investment Bank. The study provides a first analysis of the recent development in infrastructure investment in the Western Balkans. It identifies infrastructure gaps as well as key infrastructure initiatives in the region, outlines the political dimension and provides the respective detailed infrastructure investment data as collected from the Western Balkans statistical offices. The Western Balkans are a good case study also for other regions in the EU neighbourhood that have similar developmental problems. It teaches that (i) intensity of involvement is important; (ii) the composition of the funds matters; (iii) infrastructure funding will not automatically lead to more political cooperation; (iv) infrastructure development funds can also be used as a sort of reward for more political cooperation. These principles could be applied in the EU’s neighbourhood policy for the Eastern Partnership countries as well as the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership countries, according to the local requirements.
A download link for the study can be found here.