Joint DIIS and Rimisp conference on Rural Inequality, November 6, 2008The conference aims to explore the dynamics and policy options in Latin America and beyondDIIS and Rimisp – Latin American Centre for Rural Development share a deep concern with growing rural inequality and therefore have a strong mutual interest in understanding the dynamics of rural inequality and the ways in which social actors and institutions interact in shaping access to and the use of assets, including natural resources. This interest also underlies DIIS’s participation in the IDRC funded Rural Territorial Development Programme coordinated by Rimisp (www.rimisp.org/dtr). To further this interest, Rimisp and DIIS are jointly organising a conference entitled "Rural Inequality: Dynamics and Policy Options", to be held in Copenhagen on November 6, 2008 (link to seminar announcement). The objective of the conference is to draw attention to and examine the importance of the dynamics of inequality for the design, support to and implementation of policy interventions aimed to promote pro-poor and environmentally sound rural economic growth. The conference will address the issues of political and economic inequality and their effect on economic growth, and of the roles of elites and social coalitions in shaping institutions that affect inequality and its relation to growth. Through the conference, we want to encourage new thinking both within the research community and among European development agencies to pay more attention to the questions of political inequality, coalitions and institutions. |
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