The Institute for Social and Economic Studies (IESE) will be holding its second conference, on the 22nd and 23rd of April 2009 in Maputo about "Dynamics of Poverty and Patterns of Economic Accumulation in Mozambique." IESE intends to contribute to challenge mainstream approaches to poverty and to develop the debate further by introducing new perspectives that are based upon the political economy analysis of poverty in relation with the patterns of economic and social accumulation and reproduction. Interested researchers and scholars who wish to present papers at the conference are invited to send 1-2 page(s) summaries of their papers to conferencia.pobreza@iese.ac.mz , by the 20th of December 2008. For more information about the conference and guidelines for your submissions, please follow this link to the text announcing the conference and calling for papers: http://www.iese.ac.mz/lib/call_for_Papers_Conf_Poverty.pdf For further queries, please contact IESE at the above mentioned e-mail.

Important final deadlines to be met by all:

• Submission of summaries (1-2 pages) of proposed papers to IESE: 20th December 2008.
   
• Information from IESE to those candidates whose proposals were selected: 31sth January 2009.
     
• Submission of final version of selected papers to be presented at the Conference: 22nd March 2009

Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco,
Director,
Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE),
Av. Patrice Lumumba 178,
Maputo, Moçambique.

E-mails:   carlos.castel-branco@iese.ac.mz     carlos.castelbranco@gmail.com

Telephones:

Celular: + 258 82 3150310

Fix (IESE): + 258 21 328894 (Extension : 202)

Fax (IESE): + 258 21 328895

http://www.iese.ac.mz

October 10, 2008.