What happened at the CSAE Conference 2018?
We had a fantastic few days at St Catherine's College for this year's CSAE Conference. Find out what happened in the programme below.
Keynote Speech 'Using evidence to inform policy'
Rachel Glennerster (Chief Economist, DFID)
Monday 19 March, 11:30-13:00
Keynote Speaker Abebe Aemro Selassie (IMF) talks to Stefan Dercon (CSAE, University of Oxford) about the impact of COVID-19 on African Countries and what the International Monetary Fund is doing to address the situation.
Special Event - Elsevier Atlas Award
Augustin Fosu has been awarded the Elsevier Atlas Award for his paper 'Growth, inequality, and poverty reduction in developing countries: Recent global evidence', published in the journal 'Research in Economics'.
We are very pleased to announce that the Award will be presented at the CSAE Conference, followed by a short discussion of the paper.
An earlier version of the paper was published in our CSAE Working Paper series (WPS/2011-07).
Panels
Opening Plenary Panel
Recent IMF Research on Inclusive Growth and Low-Income Countries
Sunday 18 March, 16:30-18:00
Speakers: Stefania Fabrizio, Deputy Unit Chief (Strategy, Policy and Review Department, IMF); Davide Furceri (Senior Economist, IMF); Jonathan D. Ostry (Deputy Director, Research Department, IMF); Chris Papageorgiou (Division Chief, Research Department and coordinator of IMF-DFI
Chair: Christopher Adam
Discussant: Benno Ndulu
Closing Plenary Panel
Limits to evidence-based interventions for development in Africa?
Tuesday 20 March, 16:30-18:00
Speakers: Michael Kremer (Harvard); Justin Sandefur (Center for Global Development); Joseph Ssentongo (Global Innovation Fund); Eva Vivalt (ANU)
Moderator: Hilary Greaves (GPI)