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The conference explores the Beyond GDP agenda, the implications of wellbeing for policy as well as understanding and measurement.
Final deadline for abstracts is 20 May 2013 and for Receipt of payment 1 JUNE 2013.
Good quality contributions in Social Science as well as Economics are VERY welcome! The Oxford based Foundation for Knowledge Exchange (OFKE) will award a Prize of 300 Euros for the best contributed conference presentation if it feels appropriate. The decision will be announced on the website shortly after the conference.
Submission and Registration here.
July 3 - 5, 2013The workshop will focus on how well alternative measures of wellbeing correlate and how they can be used in evaluations of public policy outcomes.
If you are interested in attending please write to Jennifer Scheppers j.a.scheppers@reading.ac.uk
May 22, 2013UNI-COM LATINAMERICAN CONFERENCE: “QUALITY OF LIFE IN LATIN AMERICAN”
Announcement: http://unicom.unlzsociales.
Flyer: http://unicom.unlzsociales.com.ar/Es/UNi-COMConference2013.pdf
September 16 - 17, 2013This conference will explore the long-term developments in quality of life in societies.
Both methodological issues – how to measure longitudinally progress in quality in life – as well as the results of this research – what got better and what got worse for whom – will be discussed.
Special attention will be given to the relationship between research and policy making.
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September 12 - 13, 2013The purpose of this intensive summer school is to provide a thorough conceptual and technical introduction to some techniques of measuring multidimensional poverty with a strong emphasis on the Alkire Foster method. Participants will revise axiomatic poverty measures, and will learn about different techniques of multidimensional poverty measurement and which problems they are best suited to solve. The empirical motivation for measuring multidimensional poverty will be presented as well as the conceptual motivation, drawing on Sen’s Capability approach.
July 8 - 13, 2013