What happened at the CSAE Conference 2019?

What a fantastic few days at St Catherine's College for the CSAE Conference 2019. Thank you to everyone involved, you all helped to make the event a great success. This year, the programme included a keynote speech from Eliana Ferrara (Bocconi Univeristy) on ' The Entertaining Way to Behavioural Change: Fighting HIV with MTV', an opening plenary panel discussing 'What will automation and AI mean for the economic prospects of Africa?', a closing plenary on ' African trade in the age of global trade turbulence' and many parallel session on a range of development economics topics.

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CSAE Conference 2019 Video

Find out what happened at the CSAE Conference 2019 by watching our conference video. The CSAE Conference is an annual three day event with a broad focus on issues that are relevant for economic development in Africa. The event is hosted at St Catherine's College in Oxford, UK.
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CSAE Conference 2019 Blog

Our resident blog writer Ranil Dissanayake documents his experience at two days of this year's CSAE Conference.

Keynote and Panels

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Keynote Speech

The Entertaining Way to Behavioural Change: Fighting HIV with MTV
Eliana Ferrara (Bocconi Univeristy)
Monday 18 March 2019

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Opening Plenary Panel

What will automation and AI mean for the economic prospects of Africa?
Speakers: Douglas Gollin (ODID, University of Oxford), Gaurav Nayyar (Senior Economist, World Bank); Benno Ndulu (Visiting Professor, BSG, Oxford and Professor, University Dar es Salaam).
Sunday 17 March 2019

Closing Plenary Panel 2019

Closing Plenary Panel

African trade in the age of global trade turbulence
Speakers: Emily Jones (Associate Professor, BSG, Oxford); Nick Lea (Deputy Chief Economist, DFID), Albert Zeufack (Chief Economist, World Bank, Africa)
Tuesday 19 March 2019

We asked our panellists...

Emily Jones speaking at CSAE2019

What are the big economic issues facing African countries in the future?

We asked the CSAE Conference 2019 panellists 'What are the big economic issues facing African countries in the future?', here's what they said...

CSAE 2019 Panellists - Douglas Gollin, Professor, Oxford Department for International Development, University of Oxford; - Emily Jones, Professor, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; - Nick Lea, Deputy Chief Economist, DFID; - Gaurav Nayyar, Senior Economist, World Bank; - Benno Ndulu, Professor, University Dar es Salaam, and Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; - Albert Zeufack, Chief Economist for Africa, World

Albert Zeufack speaks at the CSAE Conference 2019

What research or key economic changes would you like to see in Africa?

We asked the CSAE Conference 2019 panellists 'What research or key economic changes would you like to see in Africa?', here's what they said...

CSAE 2019 Panellists - Douglas Gollin, Professor, Oxford Department for International Development, University of Oxford; - Emily Jones, Professor, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; - Nick Lea, Deputy Chief Economist, DFID; - Gaurav Nayyar, Senior Economist, World Bank; - Benno Ndulu, Professor, University Dar es Salaam, and Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; - Albert Zeufack, Chief Economist for Africa, World B

Watch our live streamed sessions

Parallel Session 7 Public Finance II

Papers: - Constructing Capital in the Twentieth Century: Prisons and Forced Labor in British Colonial Africa Speaker: Belinda Archibong; Discussant: Maika Schmidt - The Allocation of Oil Revenues with Resource and Strategic Investment Funds Speaker: Christine Awiti; Discussant: Belinda Archibong - Community-level Electricity Access and Infant Mortality - Evidence from Burkina Faso Speaker: Maika Schmidt; Discussant: Christine Awiti Chair: Maika Schmidt

Parallel Session 3 Institutions I

Papers: - Mobile Money Payment: An Effective Intervention for Bribery? Speaker: Laura Barasa; Discussant: Gian Luca Tedeschi - Hierarchy and Information Speaker: Daniel Rogger; Discussant: Laura Barasa - Roman Roads to Prosperity: Persistence and Non-Persistence of Public Goods Provision Speaker: Pablo Selaya; Discussant: Daniel Rogger - State History, Cultural Transmission and Institutional Trust in Africa Speaker: Gian Luca Tedeschi; Discussant: Pablo Selaya Chair: Gian Luca Tedeschi