The CICSE Lectures on Growth and Development
 
Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability
by David de la Croix (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

27-29 April 2011
Palazzo Ricca, Istituto Banco di Napoli - Fondazione,
Naples, Italy

The CICSE Lectures are planned to provide invited scholars with the opportunity to recollect and reorganize their ideas, to present them in a more general format, to provide proofs of special cases or some empirical studies that in short presentations like that of an article of a journal cannot be exhaustively treated, and to provide deeper analyses of some points. Once delivered a set of Lectures are collected in a book published by Cambridge University Press in the ‘CICSE Lectures on Growth and Development’ Series. The first set of Lectures were delivered by Professor Stephen J. Turnovsky on ‘Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth in a Small Open Economy’; the book is currently available both in hardback and in paperback. The second set of Lectures were delivered by Oded Galor on ‘Inequality and the Process of Development’ and the book is under revision. The three Lectures by Professor de la Croix are on ‘Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability’. More precisely they are on: Lecture 1 (April 27) – Differential Fertility and the Dynamics of Inequality; Lecture 2 (April 28) – Education Policy; Lecture 3 (April 29) – Sustainability. All interested scholars are free to attend the CICSE Lectures at Palazzo Ricca, Via dei Tribunali 213, Naples, Italy, but they need to be registered within April 5, 2011. Registration is possible through the page:

http://cicse.ec.unipi.it/content/fertility_education_growth_and_sustainability.html

where further information on the Lectures can be found.

Call for Posters

The afternoon of April 28 will be devoted to a Poster Session with the David de la Croix’s participation. The deadline for delivering a poster is March 10, 2011. The application requires an abstract sent to cicse-lecture@ec.unipi.it.

Maximum 1 page length abstract  (including Title, Authors, Institutional Affiliation, JEL Classification and Key-words) will be printed and provided to CICSE Lectures participants.

Poster Format:

• Allowed poster area will be maximal 70cm (width) x 100cm (high).
• Means of attaching the poster to the space will be provided to you at the Conference.
• Posters may be prepared as a single poster or as several smaller sections mounted together.
• Business cards or small leaflet literature for distribution may be inserted in an envelope and affixed to the mounting surface.

Suggestions:

• Title, Authors and Institutional Affiliation:  Prepare a six inch strip at the top that runs the length of the poster.  In this strip, include the title of the research, authors, and institutional affiliations. Lettering height should be no less than three inches.  The text of the paper should be visible from as far away as one metre.
• Abstract: Display a one-page typed abstract on the paper in the upper-left hand corner of the display, directly under the title strip.  It must be readable from one metre and half away.
• Hypotheses, Graphs and Tables:  If clearly stated and simply displayed, these allow the reader to understand the research without extensive written explanation.  Briefly identify the research design and relevant literature as well.
• Clear Sequence: The layout of your findings should follow the sequence of the paper clearly.  Numbering figures or using arrows greatly aid the reader's quick absorption of material.
• Avoid Clutter: Do not clutter the presentation with too many figures and avoid too much written material. The benefit of the poster presentations is the reliance on graphical display to spark interest in reading the entire paper.  More open space is easier on the eye and its simplicity supports the clarity of presentation.

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