Colombo to host dialogue on promoting socioeconomic equity in South Asia

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The International Conference on Promoting Socioeconomic Equity in South Asia: Challenges and Prospects, will be held from 15-16 July in the Kingsbury Hotel.

The conference is being organised by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Sri Lanka in collaboration with the NSF Working Committee on Social Sciences and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) with the aim of bringing together multidisciplinary researchers to present their findings and views to help develop and strengthen research and decision-making on a range of issues linked to the socioeconomic equity of the South Asia.

The proposed South Asian Dialogue seeks to bring together key social scientists in South Asia and other countries who work on various aspects of social inequality in the South Asian region with a view to advancing the understanding of the subject, identifying gaps in research and developing an agenda for research, preferably to be undertaken through international as well as interdisciplinary collaboration.