The Institute for African Development (IAD), Cornell University, has announced a call for proposals for its upcoming symposium on Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: Social and Economic Development Challenges in Africa. The conference will be held 19-20 April, 2013 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA.
The seminar will consider a wide variety of issues such as identification of strategies for ensuring that growth translates into improved livelihoods for people, land reform policies, and educational policies that build the capacity of youth and other disadvantaged communities.
Proposals must be no more than one page in length, single-spaced, and must have the name, title, and institutional or organizational affiliation and full contact details of the person or persons submitting the abstract. Deadline for proposals/abstracts is November 30, 2012.