The upcoming conference is very special; it marks the 25th anniversary of the Economic Research Forum (ERF). The Economic Research Forum invites submissions from interested researchers on any topic within the area of Development Economics or related fields. Plenary Session 1: Knowledge, Economic...

Africa Finance and Economic Association (AFEA) will sponsor two sessions and another session together with National Economic Association (NEA) at the January 2018 ASSA Meetings in Philadelphia devoted to all aspects of economic development or economic growth concerns of African economies.

Both members and non-members are invited to submit papers which deal with all aspects of economic development of African economies and/or economic growth concerns of Africans in the diaspora to this meeting.

D Sessions - Agricultural Transformation in Africa E Sessions - Diversification, Infrastructure, and Economic Transformation in Africa

he theme of the plenary sessions this year is “Corruption and Economic Development.” The themes of the parallel sessions are always varied enough to accommodate diverse research interests. Submissions for presentations in the parallel sessions may be made under the following areas: 1....

Keywords: foreign aid; official development assistance (ODA); development finance; Africa; freedom, democracy and human rights; growth and employment; gender equality; stability and fragility; and environment and climate.

The insights of behavioural economics have begun to be applied to development economics and in particular to the behaviour of poor households in poor economies. Does poverty promote departures from the standard text book model of rational choice? Do such departures in turn promote poverty and...

This workshop will take stock of what we know and what we need to know about cities and development; to gather experiences of urbanization and urban growth from across the world; and to offer policy options for an inexorably urbanizing world.

Papers on any topics related to African economic development, including in a comparative context, are welcome. This conference will largely consist of parallel sessions, with two plenary sessions.

Workshop topics include: - The concept and measurement of entrepreneurship in the context of developing countries. - The channels through which entrepreneurship drives economic structural transformation and growth and institutional development. - The advantages and disadvantages of small, micro,...