26 June 2018 - 29 June 2018
The conference is organized by the International Input-Output Association (IIOA) and will take place in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Its goal is to promote and stimulate the worldwide exchange of ideas among economists and between economists and government officials, policymakers, engineers, national accountants, and managers with interests in input-output analysis and related methods.
Narasimha Rao, IIASA researcher and leader of the Decent Living Energy (DLE) project, will be keynote speaker at the event. He will talk about the use of multi-regional input-output analysis and other industrial ecology tools to develop emissions pathways for eradicating poverty. The talk will present new results on case studies of India, Brazil, and South Africa, and highlight methodological advances made at IIASA. The broader context of this work is to better quantify the links between consumption, wellbeing, and resource use.
About IIOA
The International Input-Output Association (IIOA) is a scientific non-profit membership organization founded in 1988. Its objective is the advancement of knowledge in the field of input-output analysis, including improvements in basic data, theoretical insights and modeling, and applications, both traditional and novel, of input-output techniques. The IIOA grew out of an informal world-wide network of economists, government officials, engineers and managers with interests in input-output analysis.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Phone: (+43 2236) 807 0 Fax:(+43 2236) 71 313