The next meeting of the LACEA/IDB/WB/UNDP Network on Inequality and Poverty (NIP) will be held at GRADE in the City of Lima on October 31st, 2012. The NIP is an initiative that aims to advance the state of knowledge and expertise regarding the causes and consequences of poverty, inequality, and social exclusion, as well as on the whole range of policies, institutions, and social structures that influence their dynamics. For more information on the NIP, go to www.lacea.org/nip
The NIP meetings cover all topics related to poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. This edition of the conference will cover issues of “Gender, poverty and inequality”.
Complete papers or advanced drafts in Word or PDF format should be sent to: nip@cedlas.org by September 15, 2012. Strict compliance with this deadline is required.
Papers will be selected on the basis of academic merit. Submitted papers will be reviewed by a program committee made of members of the Executive Committee of the Network. Authors of the selected papers will be notified by e-mail. Every accepted paper will be included in the program and will have a discussant. We expect to communicate our decisions by September 24, 2012.
The NIP may offer partial funding for travel expenses for those participants who are not able to obtain full financial support from their institutions or other sources. If authors require financial support, they should indicate it at the time of submission of the paper. In order to receive funding from NIP, authors whose papers were accepted must be members of LACEA and current on their membership dues by the time of the meeting.
Inquiries concerning the meeting should be sent to nip@cedlas.org.
Executive Committee, NIP:
Chair – Guillermo Cruces
World Bank – Louise Cord
UNDP – George Gray Molina
IADB – Hugo Ñopo
Isidro Soloaga – México
Máximo Rossi – Uruguay
Eduardo Ortiz-Juárez – Secretariat/Finance
