Reducing Poverty and Inequality: How can Africa be included?

New Resources

Market Integration and Border Effects in Eastern Africa, CSAE working paper
The economics of the Arab Spring, CSAE working paper
Optimal public investment, growth, and consumption: Evidence from African countries, CSAE working paper
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times, CSAE working paper
CSAE Newsletter 05, Autumn 2011
Political Origins of Financial Structure, CSAE working paper
Insurance products for the poor should not be poor products, iiG Briefing Paper

CSAE Conference 2006

A conference on poverty and growth in Africa

This conference will be held on 19th March 2006 to 21st March 2006, at St Catherine's College.

Papers addressing economic analysis of any issues relevant for growth and poverty in Africa are invited. This conference will largely consist of parallel sessions, with two plenary sessions.

The call for papers will open on 1 September and the deadline for submission of abstracts will be 4pm, 16 December 2005 (extended by request of some scholars). A decision will be made by the programme committee by 15 January 2006. All submissions will be electronic. Online submissions will be available in October. Applicants from Africa (and travelling from Africa) may be eligible for full participation and travel costs and will be asked to submit a full paper for consideration. Ph.D. candidates should submit a full paper though a draft paper or full outline will also be considered for acceptance.

Chair of the programme committee: Stefan Dercon.

This conference will follow on from the GPRG conference on Equity, Opportunity and Identity, taking place on 19 March from 10am. Participants are invited to attend this conference as well.

Related link: GPRG Conference 2006

Information and abstract submission for CSAE and GPRG conferences

Information, submission and registration can all be found on the Joint Conference home page

Enquiries

Enquiries should have the mark/subject "GPRG/CSAE /conference 2006" and be addressed to:

e-mail:	csae.conference@economics.ox.ac.uk
fax:	+44 (0)1865 281447
postal address:	CSAE, Dept of Economics, Oxford University, Manor Road Building, Manor Rd, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK.

How to get there

St Catherine's College website has travel information and maps.