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Call for a Panel proposal of the TG on Children 2013 HDCA conference - will take place at the Universidad Centroamericana-UCA in Managua, Nicaragua from 9-12 September 2013.

The 2013 conference theme is ‘Human Development: Vulnerability, Inclusion and Wellbeing?'. Therefore, the invitation is to discuss and reflect on this if you can. However we think that the panel should be free and able to propose its own topics.

Please send and abstract proposal (between 500-1000 words) followed by at least three keywords, Authors’ Names, affiliations and short bios (100 to 200 words) to mario.biggeri@unifi.it deadline is the 2nd of April 2013

After our internal referee process not all the papers will be selected (only four can be selected).

We wiill answer (if the paper is included or not in the panel) the 5th of April.

Please note that, who is not selected can apply to the conference separately as individual before the 8th of April.

Relevant deadlines

Submission of proposals for the panel within the TG: 2th April 2013 to mario.biggeri@unifi.it

Reply 5th of April form the TG to tell you if you are selected or not for the panel and how to upload to the conference website.

Other relevant deadlines:

Submission of proposals (Panel with the TG Children): 2th April 2013 to mario.biggeri@unifi.it

Submission of proposals (individual not with the TG): 8th April 2013

Announcement of acceptance/rejection: 1st May 2013

Registration with early–bird-fee: 1st July 2013

Submission full papers/posters: 31st July 2013

Registration with latecomer-fee: 1st August 2013

For information on the general rules for submissions, please take a look at the CfP http://www.hdca2013.org/.

The 30th of September 2011 the book on CHILDREN'S AND THE CAPABILITY APPROACH Edited by Mario Biggeri, Jerome Ballet and Flavio Comim has been published by Palgrave Macmillan.

The book opens with a prologue of kaushik Basu (the well-known Economists and President of HDCA) is composed by 16 chapters.

FROM THE PROLOGUE "I am glad that the present book goes beyond traditional approaches to children’s well-being and child labour by grappling with them through the capabilities approach. It is a rich volume that draws on a broad range of disciplines, methodologies and perspectives and, crucially, includes the voices of children from several countries on many of the issues that matter to them. Consequently, the questions and conclusions emerging from this volume are highly relevant for local, national and global policy debates. "

Professor Kaushik Basu, Government of India & Cornell University