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Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

CFP: CSAE 2013 Conference on Economic Development in Africa

CSAE 2013 Conference on Economic Development in Africa


St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 17-19 March 2013


Keynote speaker: Edward Miguel, Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley

Dinner speaker: Marcelo Giugale, Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programmes for Africa, World Bank

Call for papers

Papers addressing economic analysis of the broad issues relevant for economic development in Africa are invited for the CSAE 2013 conference. Papers on countries other than those in Africa are welcome, providing they deal with issues central to African development.

All abstracts for consideration must be submitted via the online submission site at

https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/conference.cgi?action=login&db_name=CSAE2013

Further details on student submissions and funding possibilities at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/

Deadline for submissions Friday 30 November 2012


Enquiries should include the reference ‘CSAE conference 2013’ and be addressed to:

e-mail: csae.conference@economics.ox.ac.uk

postal address: CSAE, Dept of Economics, Oxford University, Manor Road Building, Manor Rd, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK

Thursday, 1 September 2011

United Nations Economic Commision for Africa (UNECA) institutional repository

The United Nations Economic Commision for Africa (UNECA) has launched an institutional repository.



In its 50 years of existence, UNECA has created and holds a vast quantity of information and knowledge in a variety of formats, including printed and electronic. These represent the organisation's corporate memory, providing historical evidence of its actions and decisions. The information resources include published materials such as flagship publications, journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, mission reports, annual reports, working papers, speeches and other grey literature, all which outline important research or decisions that have been made on the economic and social developmental aspects in Africa.


The Institutional Repository of the Economic Commission for Africa offers unique knowledge and information not available elsewhere pertaining to regional programmes, decisions and resolutions promoting social and economic development in Africa. The repository includes key documents relating to the African Governance report, the African Women's Report, the Economic report on Africa, and Millennium Development Goals in Africa.


This material has been grouped into the following "communities" (with number of items as of July 2011 in square brackets):


•Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing [1537]
•Economic Development and Development Finance [8287]
•Gender issues and Equity [1153]
•Governance and Public Administration [2506]
•Industry [1539]
•International Trade [1524]
•Library, Information Communication Technology (ICT), Science and Technology [1770]
•Natural Resources and Environment [1934]
•Organizational Questions [1715]
•Political and Legal Questions [507]
•Social Development [6133]
•Sub-Regional Offices [57]
•Transport and Communications [1233]

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

African Economic Research Consortium website

A useful resource for those looking at the economics of, or policy within Africa is the website of the African Economic Research Consortium http://www.aercafrica.org/home/index.aspThe African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) was established in 1988 and is a public non-profit organization devoted to the advancement of economic policy research and training. AERC's principal objective is to strengthen local capacity for conducting independent, rigorous inquiry into problems pertinent to the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa. It seeks to enhance and network African research.





Key topics covered on the website are:
  • Poverty, Income Distribution and Labour Market Issues
  • Trade, Regional Integration and Sectoral Policies
  • Macroeconomic Policies, Stabilization and Growth
  • Finance, Resource Mobilization and Investment


  • The website provides links to key researchers and research groups based in Sub-Saharan African institutions. It is also possible to search and download examples of working papers from the website.
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