đź“… 16 -17 September 2022
Naples, Italy
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion on innovative research, in the field of development economics, that can be useful for conceiving a new utopia. The conference welcomes both empirical and theoretical contributions on general issues concerning 4 major transitions:
- climate change and environmental threats,
- high inequality,
- the spread of 4.0 technologies based on robots and algorithms,
- the growing demographic imbalance between low- and high-income countries, and related migrations.
The objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (A2030SS), adopted in 2015, aim – inter alia – at the elimination of poverty and hunger, the reduction of inequality, the satisfaction of basic needs, the adoption of ecologically sustainable consumption and productions obtainable with clean energy. The A2030SS does not clarify whether the intertemporal sustainability of these objectives will require degrowth, or whether it will be sufficient to treat separately the environmental, distribution, labour, and demographic objectives to be pursued in a collaborative climate of peace and good governance. Emerging economies are called upon to reduce emissions and resource extraction and rethink their lifestyles with a high environmental impact. But the progress towards these objectives is hampered by recent worsening in the four transitions also due to low-quality governments that still resort to coercive and belligerent measures. What are the possible solutions for such and similar dilemmas?
The international conference SITES – Utopie 2022 invites the submission of long abstracts for research papers, participant panels, and posters related to the topics of the conference and the general themes of development economics.
Call for Papers
The VII international conference of SITES, organized in collaboration with the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, CNR-ISMed, and the Department of Business and Economic Studies of the Parthenope University of Naples, will be held at Villa D’Angri Doria in Posillipo (Naples) on 16 and 17 September 2022. The event will take place in person. If the health situation requires it, the conference will take place entirely or in part by videoconference.
Conference Topics
- ex ante and ex post impact assessments of social programs and recovery plans
- economic growth and comparative economic development
- innovation and automatization
- family planning and demographic evolution
- poverty
- inequality, gender, and inter-generational gaps
- private and public health in the post-pandemic
- migration
- environment, agriculture, and natural resources
- governance and political economy
- fiscal and monetary policies
- conflicts
- international trade
- labor and credit markets
- long run sustainability of Italian Dualism
- development of the Mediterranean region
Paper Submission
Deadlines
The submission of abstracts or full papers in pdf format must be done online at the link
Registration & Abstract Submission from May 1, 2022.
June 25, 2022 – Submission closes
June 30, 2022 – Notification of submission results
July 30, 2022 – Registration
You will receive an e-mail confirming your registration. For more information, contact the secretary Beppe Folloni at info@sitesideas.org.
Keynote Speakers
Richard Damania (World Bank), Vincenzo Galasso (Bocconi Univ.), Dilip Mookherjee (Boston Univ. in remote), Oded Galor (Brown University in remote).
Registration
The costs of attending the Conference are: 200 Euros for Junior Members (Ph.D. students and post-doc researchers) and 230 Euros for Junior Non-Members; 300 Euros for Senior Members and 360 Euros for Senior Non-Members. Auditors and accompanying persons can also be registered for a fee. Registration does not cover accommodation and transport costs. Participants are also required to become a member of SITES. Within the limits of available funds, financial support will be granted to cover travel and accommodation costs for participants living and working in a low-income country. The request for financial support must be submitted by writing to secretary Beppe Folloni (info@sitesideas.org).
Awards (Best Doctoral Thesis and Paper) in memory of Jean-Paul Fitoussi
The Scientific Committee is assigning the “Best Doctoral Thesis” and “Best Paper” Prizes in memory of Jean-Paul Fitoussi consisting in the reimbursement of the subscription fees to the best paper from a doctoral thesis and the best paper presented at the Conference by a junior scholar. The Scientific Committee will also select a set of 10 best papers to be submitted to a special issue of an A journal (ANVUR scale) after the peer review process of SITES and the traditional blinded review system will select 6 papers for final publication.
Funding
Financial contributions are welcome, especially donations from institutions. For more information write to the Secretary Beppe Folloni at info@sitesideas.org.