PEGNET Conference 2012: How to Make African Economic Lions

The Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Growth Network’s (PEGNet) conference 2012 on „How to Make African Economic Lions: Tapping Africa’s Growth and Poverty Reduction Potentials“ will be held in Dakar, Senegal in cooperation with the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) research network hosted in Africa by the Consortium pour la Recherche Economique et Sociale (CRES) September 6-7, 2012.

The conference will provide a platform for high-level dialogue between development researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. The two conference days will feature parallel sessions based on invited and contributed papers as well as project presentations. These sessions will be complemented by a debate, a round-table discussion, and keynote speeches by renowned speakers from academia, economic policy and development practice. Confirmed speakers include Augustin K. Fosu(WIDER) for the main keynote and Hosaena Ghebru Hagos (IFPRI) for the young professional keynote.

In addition, the PEGNet Best Practice Award will be awarded for the fourth time to best practice in cooperation between researchers and practitioners. While plenary sessions will focus on the conference theme, parallel sessions and Best Practice Award projects are open to all topics surrounding PEGNet's core theme, i.e. the nexus between poverty, equity and growth.

Call for papers and projects

call for papers and projects as pdf.

Program and Papers

The preliminary program can be found here.

Organizers

The conference is co-organised by the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) research network, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), the Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and supported by the KfW Development Bank and the Courant Poverty Research Centre at the University of Göttingen.