Georgina Mercedes Gómez Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Local Development

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1 Georgina Mercedes Gómez Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Local Development Date of Birth: 2 July 1971 Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina Contact Details: Gomez@iss.nl Profile: Keywords: global-local development, institutional economics, complementary exchange systems, social and solidarity economy 1. Education May April 2008 Sept Dec Sept Sept March 1989 June 1995 March July 1995 PhD in Development Studies, with distinction, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands. Title of Dissertation: Making Markets. The institutional rise and decline of the Argentine Red de Trueque Master in Development Studies, with distinction, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands Specialisation: Local and Regional Development. Title of Research Paper: Learning about competitiveness from a TNC: a case study of Argentina Master in European Industrial Relations, with distinction, University Of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom Title of Dissertation: Locational investment decisions across borders. MNEs and the choice of a labour regime Licenciatura in Economics, cum laude, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Title of Research Paper: The Economy of Poverty Specialisation in Development Economics and Planning Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2. Employment record (paid positions) January 2009 present April 2008 December 2008 Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Local Development, tenured Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands Independent development consultant Several consultancy projects with Dutch NGOs (e.g. Cordaid, PSO, ICCO) 1

2 September 2008 November 2008 May April 2008 March 1998 Aug March Aug May 1998 March 2001 July 2000 November 2000 February 2000 August 2000 June 1999 December 1999 October 1997 December 1997 September 1995 September 1996 February September 1996 Research Fellow Laboratorio en Monedas Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina PhD Researcher Institute of Social Studies, Local and Regional Development Area Lecturer Researcher Institute of Industry, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina. Contents writer for the Website on Personal & Household Finance, Bankboston, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Journalist and Analyst on Financial and Capital Markets Economy Section Newspaper El Cronista, Buenos Aires, Argentina Editor-Researcher Fellow Industrial Studies Department, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL/ECLAC), Buenos Aires, Argentina Economics research associate Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Económico e Industrial (CEDEI). Chief editor of monthly report and weekly newsletters, Buenos Aires, Argentina Freelance Journalist on agricultural economics Magazine Prensa Económica, Buenos Aires, Argentina Intern in the Personnel Division Gemini Consulting Gmbh, Bad Homburg, Germany Research Fellow in Labour and Industry Studies Institute of Industry, Universidad Nacional De General Sarmiento, Argentina Journalist Economics Research Unit, Newspaper El Cronista, Buenos Aires, Argentina 3. Research Grants and professional awards * indicates main applicant, # indicates professional awards or fellowship Sept Dec Jan on-going * Research project leader Woord & Daad - ISS Knowledge Partnership on Business and Enterprise Promotion. Study on graduation and employment creation potential of Micro and Small Enterprises in Burkina Fasso, Benin, South Africa and Nicaragua Capacity Building Project ISS leader NUFFIC Netherlands Initiative for capacity development in Higher Education (NICHE), Project Niche/Col/ 036, Fortalecimiento de la capacidad institucional y humana de la Universidad de los Llanos, Colombia. Project consortium MDF ISS - Open University Euro 55,000 Euro 1.5 million 2012 * Project Leader, Innovation fund EUR Grant of Erasmus University Rotterdam for the 2 nd International Conference on Complementary and Community Currencies and subsequent publications Euro 50,000 2

3 Jan June 2012 Dec March 2012 Sept Sept Jan Dec May- October 2010 Sept Jan * Research project leader The World Bank, Study of Governance for the Socio-Economic Development of Pernambuco, Brazil. Funded by Governance Partnership Facility TF Study of governance for income generation and empowerment promotion based on local clusters Researcher Toyota Foundation Research Grant. Project title: Money as social circuit: interdisciplinary research on the complementarity between anonymous currency and named credit, with University of Tokyo, Japan and 8 other researchers Researcher Research project of Junta de Andalucía. Project title: Cooperative Banking strategies for solving social-economic problems, with University of Almería, Spain and EURICSE - University of Trento, Italy. Researcher Woord & Daad - ISS Knowledge partnership on Business and Enterprise Promotion. Project Title: Graduation rates of MSEs with and without donors support, desk study. * Researcher Project title: Effects of interventions of Fair Trade Organisation The Netherlands, desk study. * Researcher Project title: Cordaid s action and the Economics of Civil Society, Fieldwork in The Netherlands. USD 258,000 Yen 90 million Euro 35,000 Euro 50,000 Euro 30,000 Euro 30,000 March April * Researcher Project title: Motivation and impact of physical presence of Dutch NGOs in the South, presented at The Way South: The influence of Northern NGO s physical presence on civil society in the South on 14 th May, 2008 Euro 8, # Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy Title of article: A market in the making: the Red de Trueque in Argentina # Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Netherlands Research Council Fellowship, Fellowship for Doctoral Studies at the Institute of Social Studies 2001 # Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) NUFFIC fellowship for Masters studies in The Netherlands Euro 1,500 Euro 55,000 Euro Jan Dec Researcher Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), Study of Supermarkets buying practices and consumer goods producers, Fieldwork with 146 SMEs in Argentina USD 10, # The British Council Chevening Awards Fellowship for Masters studies in the United Kingdom. GBP 25,000 3

4 4. Doctoral Supervisions, as co-promotor Saskia Vossenberg (Dutch), Supporting High-impact Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Key Factors and Critical Conditions for Responsive Policy (started in 2014) Salomey Gyamfi Afrifa (Ghana), Explaining the broken link: institutional changes and performances of small town water schemes (started in 2013) Sonia Lopez Cerón (Colombia), Household Economics: A Dynamic Approach to Monetary and Nonmonetary Polanyian Forms of Economic Integration (started in 2012) Bayu Wijayanto (Indonesia), How do food standards restructure the relationship between modern retailers and small producers? A case study on FFV (Fresh Fruit and Vegetables) com-modities in Indonesia (started in 2012) Cristina Nataly Cadena Palacios (Ecuador), Los sectores microempresarial y microfinanciero como alternativa de desarrollo: Caracterización de la microempresa y medición del impacto social del microcrédito en el Ecuador, Universidad Santiago de Compostela España (started in 2012) 5. Teaching Activity (Netherlands and Argentina) 2011 present Post-Graduate Course in Sustainable Local Economic Development Convenor and Lecturer, Joint diploma ISS- IHS of Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3 week course. Last batch size: 17 participants present Promotion of Local Economic Development Lecturer and Course Leader since 2014, Optional course of the MA in Development Studies, ISS, 8 ECTs. Last batch size: 16 participants present Social Action in Communities, Markets and Polities Lecturer and Course Leader, Foundation course of the MA in Development Studies, ISS, 4 ECTs. Last batch size: 110 participants present Governance, Policy and Political Economy Lecturer, Compulsory Major core course of the MA in Development Studies, ISS, 12 ECTs. Last batch size: 22 participants present Global Poverty, Local Solutions Lecturer, Optional course for all students at Erasmus University Rotterdam, ISS Actors in Local and Regional Development Lecturer and Course leader, Specialisation core course of the MA in Development Studies, ISS, 8 ECTs. Last batch size: 19 participants. 2009, 2010 Women Entrepreneurship Promotion Lecturer, Post-graduate course in the Maastricht School of Management MSM. 2005, 2006 Introduction to Economics Teaching Assistant, Foundation Course of the MA in Development Studies, ISS, 4 ECTs Future Scenarios in Development, Trade and Technology Workshop leader, Licenciatura en Economia Industrial, Universidad N. General Sarmiento, Argentina. 16 direct contact hours Economic and Political Integration in Mercosur Workshop leader, Licenciatura en Economia Industrial, Universidad N. General Sarmiento, Argentina. 16 direct contact hours. 4

5 2001 Economic Policy Lecturer, Licenciatura en Economia, Universidad de Moron, Argentina Structure of the Argentine Economy Lecturer and Course leader, Licenciatura en Economia Industrial, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina. 40 lecture hours Economic Growth and Development Lecturer and Course leader, Licenciatura en Economia Industrial, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina. 40 lecture hours Epistemology of Economics Teaching assistant, Licenciatura en Economia, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina Introduction to Economics Teaching assistant, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina. 6. Other academic activities 2013 present Co-Convenor Major in Governance, Policy and Political Economy, MA in Development Studies, ISS, The Hague present Selection Committee member, Prins Claus Chair present Grant Reviewer, NWO and NIAS present Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Community Currency Research Member of the Scientific Committee, third International Conference on Complementary and Community Currency Systems, Salvador do Bahia, Brazil. October 26 th - 29 th, present Reviewer of articles for Development & Change, European Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Development Studies, Development in Practice, World Development, Revue Internationale de l'economie Sociale, British Journal of Sociology, Economic Sociology, Environment & Planning A 2013 Main Organiser, 2 nd International Conference on Complementary and Community Currency Systems, ISS, The Hague, June 19 th - 23 rd 2013 Organising partners: QOIN Amsterdam and New Economic Foundation, London. Sponsors: Municipality of The Hague, Stichting Doen, Fonds 1818, Veblen Institute for Economic Reforms, European Regional Development Fund NWE, Global Fund for Cities Development (FMDV), UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service, Community Currencies in Action (CCIA), Institut Palmas, Time Bank The Hague. Attendance: 482 international academics, practitioners and local government officials Convenor, Specialisation in Local Development Strategies, MA in Development Studies, ISS, The Hague 2011 Member of the Scientific Committee, 1 st International Conference on Complementary and Community Currency Systems, Lyon, France. February 16 th -17 th, Committee Member, Best Research Paper Award, ISS 2009 Selection Committee member, Prins Claus Chair on Corporate and Social Responsibility with a focus on Latin America 5

6 2008 Member of the organising committee, Civic Drive Change Think Tank, inaugural meeting, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 16, 17 & 18 th January , 2008 PhD Students Representative at the Research Degrees Committee 2007 Member of the organising committee, International Symposium Cities of Extremes, Institute of Social Studies, October, International Conference Main organiser, 4th International Development Dialogue 'Capacity building in practice: does it really matter for development?' at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (The Netherlands), 9th June ,1996 Convenor of the Licenciatura in Industrial Economics at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. The main tasks were coordination of sixteen courses, representation in Convenors Board, and management of the marking processes 7. Public policy and social debate activities Observer, Community Currencies in Action (CCIA), European Regional Development Fund, EU project 12 June 2008 Keynote Speaker. Project La Ruta (a project of Noticias), Public debate on Trade versus Poverty, organised by International Seminar "The New Latin American Agenda": Participatory Democracy, Social Inclusion, Sustainable Development, and Regional Integration present Member of experts panel Diario el País, España on Social and Solidarity Economy issues. Interviewd 4 times since then for various articles. 21 June 2010 Keynote speaker, Municipality of Delft, Latin American cities working on economic development. Lessons learnt Advisor to the Alliance of Professional Organisations for Development (PSO) on the effects of capacity building within STRO s LIDO II programme Complementary Currency Systems and Local Development in Central America 8. Professional Networks Senior Researcher, CERES Dutch Research School for Resource Studies for Development Member of the Research Cluster Civil Society and Market, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Member of the International Complementary Currencies Research Network Member of EAEPE, the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy Member of the International Research Network on the Origins and Meanings of Money Member of the research network of EURICSE, the European Institute on Cooperative and Social enterprises 6

7 9. List of Publications 1. Peer-reviewed articles Gómez, G.M. (2015). Editor Special Issue, Multiple Moneys and Development, International Journal of Community Currency Research, 19 (D). Gómez, G.M. (2015). Research on monetary diversity and the challenges of development, International Journal of Community Currency Research, 19 (D). Gómez, G.M. (2015). Price setting mechanisms in complementary currencies in Argentina s Redes de Trueque, International Journal of Community Currency Research, 19 (D). Gomez, G.M. (2012). Governance and sustainability of the Argentine Complementary Currency Systems, International Journal of Community Currency Research, 16(special issue), Berner, E., G.M. Gómez, P. Knorringa (2012). Helping a large number of people become a little less poor': The Logic of the survival entrepreneurs, European Journal of Development Research., 24 (3) Gómez, G.M. (2010). What was the deal for the participants of the Argentine local currency systems, the Redes de Trueque?, Environment and Planning A, 42 (7) Gómez, G.M and Helmsing, A.H.J (2008), Selective spatial closure and local economic development: what do we learn from the Argentine local currency systems?, World Development, 36 (11) Gómez, G.M. (2007) A tale of three markets: how do the urban poor spend their money?, DevIssues, 9 (2): Bisang, R. and Gómez, G. (1999) Las Inversiones en la Industria Argentina en la Década de 1990, Working Paper Series Lc/Bue/R.239, ECLAC (United Nations): Bs. As. 2. Books Gomez, G.M. (Ed.) (forthcoming in 2015) Governance and Sustainability of Local Production Systems in the State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, The World Bank. Gómez, G.M., Goulart, P., Corradi, A. y Namara, R. (2010), Participation for what? Social Change or social control? ISS & HIVOS, The Hague. Open source: Programme/Themes/Civil-Society-Building Gómez, G.M. (2009) Argentina s Parallel Currency. The economy of the poor, Series on Financial History Nr. 11, Pickering & Chatto Publishers, London. Gómez, G.M. (2008) Making markets. The institutional rise and decline of the Argentine Red de Trueque, Doctoral Thesis, ISS, The Hague. 3. Chapters in books Gómez, G.M. (forthcoming in April 2015). Balancing growth and solidarity in community currency systems: the case of the Trueque in Argentina. In P. Utting (Ed), Social and Solidarity Economy: Beyond the Fringe, ZED Books. 7

8 Ferragut, S. and G.M. Gómez (2013). From the stall to the store: The formalization of street vendors in Quito, Ecuador. In F. Lapeyre, I. Hillenkanp, and A. Lemaitre, Securing Livelihoods, Informal Economy Practices and Institutions. Oxford University Press Gomez, G.M. (2012). La formacion de precios en las Redes de Trueque. In R. Orzi (Ed.), La moneda social como lazo social (Moneda Social y Mercados Solidarios II) (pp ). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Universidad Nacional de Lujan - Ediciones Ciccus. Gomez, G.M. (2012). Bytteringer - Bare i Argentina. In J. Loge (Ed.), Latin-Amerikanske Losninger (Latin- Amerikaboken, 2012) (pp ). Oslo: Latin-Amerikagruppene I Norge (LAG). Gómez, G. and Patrón, P. (2012) Viejos agentes con nuevos recursos: una mirada de la economía institucional al canon minero en Perú, in Globalizacion Económica y Gobernanza Ambiental: retos para la Geografía Humana. Ediciones Siglo XXI, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México DF: México. Gómez, G.M and Helmsing, A.H.J. (2011) Social Enterprise: Convergence of NGOs and the market economy, en Fowler, A. y C. Malunga, Earthscan Reader in NGO Management, Earthscan: London Gómez, G. (2006) Le Réseau De Trueque Zone Ouest, Partenaire De L économie Locale, in Jérôme Blanc (Ed.), Rapport Exclusion Et Liens Financiers , Monnaies Sociales, Pp Economica: Paris Bisang, R. and Gómez,G. (2001) Las Inversiones en la Industria: 1990 a 1998, in Bernardo Kosacoff and Daniel Heyman (Eds.), La Economía Argentina en los Noventa, Pp (140 Pages). ECLAC (United Nations): Buenos Aires Gómez, G. and Kosacoff, B. (2000) La Industrialización en un Contexto de Estabilización y Apertura Económica, in Bernardo Kosacoff (Ed.), El Desempeño Industrial Argentino, Pp (27 Pages). EUDEBA: Buenos Aires 4. Book reviews Gómez, G.M. (2011) Book Review: Local Money, by P. North, International Journal of Community Currency Research, (forthcoming in February 2011) Gómez, G.M. (2008) Book review: Alternative currency movements as a challenge to globalisation? A case study of Manchester s local currency networks', by P. North, Journal of European Urban and Regional Studies, 15 (1): Professional reports Gomez, G.M. (2013). Meta-Analysis; A comparison of intervention strategies to support growth and enterprise creation among microenterprises. (Knowledge Programme ISS - Woord en Daad 4). Gorinchem and The Hague: ISS and Woord en Daad. Turcotte, I. & Gomez, G.M. (2013). Case Study III - Does BDS support growth and employment creation among microenterprises? A case from Benin. (Knowledge Programme ISS- Woord en Daad 3). Gorinchem and The Hague: ISS - Woord en Daad. Turcotte, I. & Gomez, G.M. (2013). Case Study II Does microfinance support growth and employment creation among micro and small enterprises? A Case study in Burkina Faso. (Knowledge Programme ISS- Woord & Daad 2). Gorinchem and The Hague: ISS- Woord en Daad. Gomez, G.M. (2012) Preliminary studies on the local production systems of dairy farming and small-scale organic horticulture in the State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, The World Bank. 8

9 Gómez, G.M. (2011) What does Fair Trade Original contribute to its partner organisations?, Fair Trade Original, Culemborg, The Netherlands Gómez, G.M. (2010) From International Charity to Value Chain Coordinator. The case of the Pueblos en Acción Comunitaria (PAC), Woord & Daad, Gorinchem, The Netherlands Gómez, G.M. and A.H.J. Helmsing (2009). Cordaid s action and the Economics of Civil Society, Cordaid, The Hague. Gómez, G.M. (2008) Field presence of Dutch NGOs: What is the impact on civil societies in the South?, PSO, The Hague. Gómez, G. M. (2007) Do micro-enterprises promote equity or growth? Woord & Daad, Gorinchem. %20ME%20growth%20to%20SME.pdf Gómez, G.M. and Rabetino, R. (2001). Supermarkets buying practices and consumer goods markets, Argentine Industrial Union (UIA): Buenos Aires. 6. Papers presented at conferences, (*) indicates invited speaker * 2 nd Study retreat for Actors and Scholars: The challenge of scaling-up, Veblen Foundation Annual Meeting on Social Transitions, Villarceau, France, June Participant in expert panel debate. * 3rd Seminario Internacional: Nuevos Desafíos del Desarrollo para América Latina y el Caribe, Sociedad Sinergia, San Juan (Puerto Rico), 9-11 April Inaugural Conference of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research Inaugural (WINIR), Institutions that change the world, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London (UK) September Paper presented: Why do people want their own currency? Money for a day: a social experiment in Argentina. 14th EADI General Conference Responsible Development in a Polycentric World: Inequality, Citizenship and the Middle Classes, Bonn (Germany), June Panel Organiser PS273538: Complementary Currency Systems, Citizenship and the Middle Classes. Paper presented: The Argentine Middle Classes and the Economic Crisis: Building a Community Currency System 17th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP), Instituto de Economía Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, Universidad de la República Montevideo (Uruguay), July Papers presented: 1) Scaling-up alternative economic circuits: the Argentine Redes de Trueque; 2) The Nicaraguan farmers association PAC: from providing international aid to reorganizing the local production system * Workshop on Knowledge Partnership, Woord en Daad and Institute of Social Studies, Gorinchem, The Netherlands, 17 th December Paper presented: Meta-Analysis; A comparison of intervention strategies to support growth and enterprise creation among microenterprises. Workshop "The Quality of Money", Organised by Kuroda, Akinobu (University of Tokyo) in association with École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales & Paris School of Economics, Paris, France, 6 December Paper presented: Money for a day. UNU-WIDER Conference on Inclusive Growth in Africa: Measurement, Causes and Consequences, Helsinki (Finland), September Paper presented: Remittances in rural zimbabwe: from consumption to investment, co-authored with G. Ncube 9

10 2 nd International Conference on Complementary and Community Currency Systems, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, June, Paper presented: Neither private nor public. The Argentine Clubes de Trueque as club markets. * Foro universidad y desarrollo local, Universidad de los Llanos, Sede San Antonio, Villavicencio, Colombia, 24 May Paper Presented: Variedades y enfoques al desarrollo económico local. International Conference on Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy, organised by UNRISD and International Labour Office, at ILO, Geneva, Switzerland, 6 8 May Paper presented: Trading Scale for Solidarity in the Community Currency Systems in Argentina. XVI World Economic History Congress, Panel on Monies Anonymous but Multiple: A Reason Why No Single Currency Ruled, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, July 7 12, Paper presented: The Division of Labour between the Argentine Currencies ( ): Inspecting Complementary Monetary Circuits. Part 1 chaired by Georgina M. Gomez. * Workshop De-Teleologising History of Money and Its Theory (II), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. Funded by Toyota Foundation grant, February 15 16, Paper presented: Why did a product have different prices in the complementary monetary circuits in Argentina? ( ). International conference on Informal economy, vulnerabilities and employment, Institute of socioeconomics, University of Geneva, with the financial support of the General Funds of the University of Geneva, the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Swiss Sociological Association and the CIG, February 9-11, Paper presented: From the stall to the store': the formalization of street vendors in Quito, Ecuador, co-authored with S. Ferragut International conference on Informal economy, vulnerabilities and employment, Institute of socioeconomics, University of Geneva, with the financial support of the General Funds of the University of Geneva, the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Swiss Sociological Association and the CIG, February 9-11, Paper presented: Reduce, reuse, recycle, reshape: what changed for waste pickers' when their cooperatives became public service providers in Bogota?, co-authored with I. Turcotte International Workshop on Economic and Environmental Governance: New paradigms for territorial development. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, co-organised by ISS, October 15-18, Paper presented: Reconstruyendo la gobernanza desde abajo: un caso de reestructuración de la cadena de valor global de café en Nicaragua International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies, ENS de Lyon, February 16-17, Paper presented: Mastering the Crisis? Sustaining Governance in the Argentine Redes de Trueque, Workshop De-teleologising History of Money and Its Theory (I), École Normale Supérieure, Paris (December 6-7, 2010). Paper presented: The division of labour between the monies of Argentina ( ) Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research (ANSER), Third Annual Conference at the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, June 2-4, Paper presented: NGOs venturing in the market economy: Is it good news? European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Annual Conference at the Faculty of Economics, University of Amsterdam, November 6-8, Paper presented: Mastering the crisis: sustaining governance in the Argentine complementary currency systems. Seminario Internacional Globalización Económica y Gobernanza Ambiental: retos para la Geografía Humana. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México DF, México, October, Paper presented: Haciendo Mercados. Las Redes de Trueque en la Argentina 10

11 International Conference on Paper Money in Theory and Practice in History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA, April 16 18, Paper presented: What if we make ourselves some money? The origins of the Argentine Red de Trueque as a complementary currency system International Conference on Apparent Antithesis: Globalisation and Local Development, School on Local Development, University of Trento, 9-11 October, Paper presented: Buying from global markets or from local markets: what is the deal for the poor? UNU-WIDER Project Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Concepts, Measurements, and Impacts held in Helsinki, Finland, August, Paper presented: Helping a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor : The Logic of Survival Entrepreneurs, authored by Erhard Berner, Georgina Gomez, and Peter Knorringa. X International Workshop on Institutional Economics Institutions for Innovation and Technology held at the University of Hertfordshire (Hatfield), UK, June 20-22, 2008 International Symposium Cities of Extremes held at the Institute of Social Studies, October, Paper presented: The third markets of Argentine cities: Do Complementary Currency Systems help the poor buy more? Summer Research Workshop and Conference World Economy and Global Finance held at the University of Warwick, UK, July 11-15, IX International Workshop on Institutional Economics Property, money and the firms: the forgotten role of law and the state held at the University of Hertfordshire (Hatfield), UK, June 23-24, 2007 EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy) 2006 Conference Developing Economies: Multiple Trajectories, multiple developments held at the Galatasaray University, Istanbul (Turkey), November 2-4, Paper presented: A market in the making: the Red de Trueque in Argentina. First Annual Garnet International conference Global Financial and Monetary Governance, the EU, and Emerging Market Economies, organised by Garnet Network and de Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), September Paper presented: Re-placing money for local economic development. The Red de Trueque in Argentina. 4th Development Dialogue Capacity building in practice: does it really matter for development? at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (The Netherlands), 9th June Paper presented: Capacity and institutional building: a secondary market for the poor. The Red de Trueque in Argentina. 5a Jornadas Naciones de Investigación, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November Paper presented: Hay trabajo sin empleo. La Red de Trueque en la Argentina. Rabetino, R., Gomez, G., and Melitsko, S. (2002), Redes Gobernadas por Compradores y Desarrollo de TICS: El Caso de los Supermercados en la Argentina, Paper Presented at the International Seminar 'Redes, Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación y Desarrollo de Políticas Públicas' organised by the Instituto De Industria, UNGS (Buenos Aires) and EGIDA (Florence), December 2002, Buenos Aires. Available at 1a Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8-9 November Paper presented: Las cadenas de compradores de los supermercados en la Argentina. Fragmentan el trabajo?. 11