The International Economic Association will hold its 17th World Congress from June 6-10, 2014 in Jordan, and will include a special session for its Young African Scholars Program. This special session aims to provide a forum for discussing innovative theoretical and empirical research on the key challenges facing Africa, and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers as the continent search its path towards economic emergence.
IEA has released a call for papers for this special session. Papers should relate to one of the following broad topics:
Structural Transformation, industrial policies, and strategies for African Development in the Context of a Changing Global Landscape;
Inequality in Africa: its various dimensions, causes, consequences, and remedies;
Financial policies for Africa in the aftermath of the Great Recession, focusing on the lessons learned from the crisis and outstanding issues that remain to be addressed.
The papers should shed light on how such economic challenges operate in practice, and how they interact with each other, especially in terms of their effect on growth, macroeconomic stability and resilience to shocks, and employment creation.
Papers or detailed abstracts are due by February 15, 2014. For more information, visit the IEA website.