News Archive
» Campaign watch with BI support
28/01/2010 - Important news
BI staff joined a group of young economists to start a non-partisan campaign watch for the parliamentary elections in April 2010.
» BI research assistant won the Academic Competition of Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research
22/02/2010 - News
BI research assistant, Bálint SzÅ‘ke won a shared first prize in the academic competition of Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research.
» BI presents "Manka goes to work" in Bratislava
13/02/2010 - News
The Institute is publishing an electronic book as part of a project on public daycare services in the Visegrad countries.
» 10th Anniversary of ’The Hungarian Labour Market Yearbook’ – Presentation
29/01/2010 - News
BI partner and IE/HAS researcher Zsombor Cseres-Gergely gave a presentation at the conference of the Committe of Labour Economics (Hungarian Academic of Science) organized for the 10th Anniversary of The Hungarian Labour Market Yearbook.
» Publication of the Inital Report of the Post Lisbon Strategy project
15/12/2009 - News
The Budapest Institute has completed the Initial Report on the business environment for a research and consultancy project on the Post Lisbon Strategy launched by the National Development Agency. The report provides an overview of the research questions, collects the main hypotheses and data sources, and discusses the timeline of the project. The Initial Report can be downloaded here (only available in Hungarian).
» The role of databases in the impact assessment of the Hungarian development policy programmes
13/12/2009 - News
At the conference of Academy of Development Policy (FejlÅ‘déspolitikai Akadémia), an organiastion of the National Development Agency, Zsombor Cseres-Gergyely and Ágota Scharle presented their opinions about Hungarian databases used in the evaluation of government programmes.
» Mock solution to pseudo poor people
01/12/2009 - News
BI partner gave a presentation with the above title in a college of the Corvinus University of Budapest.
» Lowering the minimum wage would boost employment in disadvantaged small regions
10/11/2009 - News
- explained BI expert Ágota Scharle in an interview with the national radio channel Kossuth.
» Early childhood education and care provision for promoting female employment and fertility
05/11/2009 - News
At a conference organised by the Demographic Research Institute and the French Embassy, BI researcher Petra Reszkető gave a presentation on the importance of day care provision in promoting both employment and fertility.
» Social Welfare and Budgetary Procedure
19/10/2009 - News
Balázs Váradi was one of the two economists invited by the editors of BeszélÅ‘ on the waves of the popular Hungarian radio station Klubrádió on 09/10/18.
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