The workshop will bring together a maximum of 20 participants from across all university disciplines, addressing one or several of the following questions:
-Is poverty reduction in MICs distinctive?
-Social development: reduced extreme poverty, increased inequality?
-Public policies and politics: less important than economics?
-Politically vulnerable welfare regimes?
See the Call for papers document for further details.
The call is open to everybody although preference will be given to researchers based in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Participants are expected to actively parttake with presentations and in discussions of all the papers.