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Tuesday 16
December 2008
Greece in
Flames: The recent youth revolt from a governance perspective
Theo
Papadopoulos,
European
Research
Institute,
Department of
Social & Policy
Sciences,
University of
Bath

Thursday 11
December 2008
Public Health,
International
Trade, Human
Rights and the
Who Framework
Convention on
Tobacco Control
Livaha Phyllis,
Maastricht
University

Thursday
4 December 2008
Measuring
Multiple Deprivation
at the small area in
South Africa & Using
a democratic
approach to measure
poverty in South
Africa using
socially perceived
necessities approach
Michael Noble &
Gemma Wright,
Department of Social
Policy & Social Work,
University of Oxford
Thursday
20 November 2008
A child well-being
index for CEE/CIS
Petra Hoelscher,
UNICEF Regional
Office for Central
and Eastern Europe
and the Commonwealth
of Independent
States in Geneva

Thursday 13 November
2008
Measuring the
welfare state:
Pitfalls and
possibilities in
comparative
research
Jon Kvist,
Danish National
Institute of
Social Research

Thursday
6 November 2008
Ownership in the
multilateral
development-finance
non-system
Helmut Reisen, Head
of Research of the
OECD Development
Centre

Thursday
23 October 2008
Employment
assimilation of
immigrants in the
Netherlands:
catching up and the
irrelevance of
education
Aslan
Zorlu, Faculty of
Social & Behavioural
Sciences, University
of Amsterdam

Thursday 16
October 2008 –
Joint Seminar
with UNU-Merit
Estimation
of
Purchasing
Power
Parities for
Regional and
Global
Poverty
Measurement
Rao Prasada,
School of
Economics,
Queensland
University –
Australia

Wednesday
24 September 2008
No child left behind
in the South of
Limburg; considering
the role of
Maastricht
University
Paul Jungbluth,
Maastricht University

Thursday 18
September 2008
Effects of the
maximum billing
system on health
care consumption and
financial access to
health care
Diana De Graeve,
Antwerp University
Tuesday,
9 September 2008 –
Joint Seminar with
UNU-Merit
The Challenges of
Governance Structure,
Trade Disputes and
Natural Environment
to China's Growth
Wing Thye Woo,
Professor of
Economics,
Swarthmore College

Tuesday 17 June
2008
Understanding and
Influencing Global
Social Policy
Bob Deacon, Sheffield
University

Friday 6 June
2008 – Special
Seminar
A Chance for
the World Bank:
Revisited
Hans-Martin
Boehmer, World
Bank Vice-Presidency
for Europe

Thursday 5 June
2008
Social Protection
Index
Axel Weber, Asian
Development Bank

Thursday 29 May 2008
Labour cost and
Labour taxes in
South East Europe
Mihail Arandarenko, Faculty of
Economics, Belgrade
University

Thursday 8 May 2008
Global Income
Inequality
Branko Milanovic, The World Bank

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Tuesday 29 April
2008
The Theory of
Uneven
Development and
the History of
Economic Policy:
Two Missing
Subfields of
Economics
Erick Reinert, Tallinn
University of
Technology,
NORISS,
Norwegian
Institute of
Strategic
Studies, Other
Canon Foundation

Thursday 17
April 2008
Globalisation,
Indexes,
Economic Growth
and Happiness
Axel Dreher,
Swiss
Federal
Institute of
Technology

Friday 11 April 2008
Sustaining Life on Earth:
Environmental and Human Health
through Global Governance
Colin L. Soskolne, University of
Alberta, Canada

Thursday 10 April
2008
Bio-fuel and land use:
a dead-end road?
Michael O'Hare, Professor of Public Policy, University of
California, Berkeley

Thursday 3 April,
2008
Does the
Expansion of Higher
Education Increases
Equality of
Educational
Opportunities?
Evidence from Italy
Daniele Checchi,
Dean of the
Political Sciences
School – University
of Milan

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Thursday 13 March
2008
Is Good
Governance a Good
Development Strategy?
Jacques Ould Aoudia,French Ministry
for Finance,
Economics nd
Industry
&
Nicholas Meisel, French Agency
for Development

Monday 10 March
2008
Governance and
Democracy
Mark Bevir, University
of California,
Berkeley

Thursday 6 March
2008
Productivity
Growth and
Structural Change in
Chinese
Manufacturing
Adam Szirmai, UNU-MERIT and
Maastricht Graduate
School of Governance
of Maastricht
University

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Thursday 21 February
2008
Programme
Budgeting in OECD
Countries
Dirk-Jan Kraan,
Senior
Economist, Budget
and Public
Expenditures
Division,
Directorate of
Public Governance,
OECD

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Thursday 24 January 2008
The Politics &
Policy Supplications
of Wellbeing
Allister McGregor, University of
Bath, Director of
the ESRC Research
Group on Wellbeing
in Developing
Countries (WeD)

Thursday 17 January 2008
Boy or Girl? The
USA pregnant of its
next president
Prof. Jeremy
Mayer, Director, School
of Public Policy,
George Mason
University

Tuesday 8 January
2008
Empirical results
on the gender
effects of
reservation policies
on rural service
provision in
Karnataka (India)
Regina Birner, International
Food Policy Research
Institute

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