Nils Henrik

Institute of Public Policy and Administration of the University of Central Asia (UCA), Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), International Security and Development Center (ISDC), and the World Bank are pleased to announce the next fifth annual ‘Life in Kyrgyzstan’ Conference to take place in Bishkek on 23-24 October 2019. The two-day conference will […]

This call for papers aims to assemble high quality papers that will increase our understanding of: 1) the role of social protection in fragile contexts and settings of forced displacement and migration; and 2) synergies across the humanitarian and development divide in both contexts. The aim is to assemble 8 to 10 papers of sufficient […]

The Summer School on Social Cohesion: Concept, Implementation and Impact Evaluation is a capacity-building initiative for researchers, practitioners and policymakers in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. It is organised as part of the Social Cohesion through Community-based Development project implemented in Kyrgyzstan from 2014 to 2017. The project aims to identify, pilot and build capacity for social cohesion […]

A panel session on “Life in Kyrgyzstan” was included in the programme of the World Congress of Comparative Economics to be held in Rome in June 25-27, 2015 (see here for more information). Four papers were presented by Armando Barrientos, Kathryn Anderson, Neil Fergusson, and Susan Steiner. Hartmut Lehmann and Giovanna d’Adda served as the panel reviewers.

ISDC,  the Institute of Public Policy and Administration of the University of Central Asia (UCA), SIPRI, the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) and 3ie will offer a Summer School in Kyrgyzstan in June 2015 entitled ‘Life in Kyrgyzstan International Summer School on Impact Evaluation Methods in Central Asia […]