This volume presents a collection of research papers and survey articles by participants from two significant conferences on several complex variables (SCV) held at POSTECH in 2022. SCV, a central research area in mathematics, focuses on holomorphic functions of several variables, the geometry of analytic spaces, and its intersection with fields such as differential geometry, algebraic geometry, functional analysis, and operator theory.The first conference, The Conference on Comple...

Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success.Reviewing labour market, family and education policies, this edited collection analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Adopting a life course perspective and examining both public and private investments, this book addresses key contemporary policy issues including care, ...