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.

Workshop Sub-Themes: 1. Rethinking the developmental state 2. Technologies of development 3. Development without/despite the North: South-South cooperation towards development 4. The political economy of poverty