WELCOME TO THE CSAE CONFERENCE 2025

The CSAE Conference is a three day event with a keynote, panels, and parallel sessions on a series of development economics topics. This conference brings together colleagues from across the development economics community to discuss Africa.

WHAT HAPPENED?

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PROGRAMME

We have a busy schedule of parallel sessions, panels, keynotes, and special features in this year's programme.

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CSAE APP

The CSAE App is back again in 2025. Download the app to access lots of great features.
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CONFERENCE WEBSITE

Find out all you need to know about the CSAE Conference 2025 on the event website.
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WATCH RECORDINGS

We live streamed our sessions from the Riverside Lecture Theatre. Recordings coming soon to the CSAE YouTube channel

RECORDINGS

Opening Panel

Entrepreneurship in Africa
Sunday 23 March, 16:30 - 18:00
Riverside Lecture Theatre

Strategic Plan and Policy Challenges for Africa: A Road map to 2025-2035

AERC Special Session
Sunday 23 March, 09:30 - 10:30
Riverside Lecture Theatre

SA-TIED: Unlocking Data for Economic Research and Policy Impact

Special Session
Sunday 23 March, 18:10 - 18:50
Riverside Lecture Theatre

Publishing Research on African Economics in Academic Journals

John Hoddinott, Chief Editor of the Journal of African Economies, is running two sessions on publishing in academic journals.
Sunday 23 March and Tuesday 25 March 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre

Keynote Speech

Wealth in People
Speaker: James Robinson (University of Chicago and University of Nigeria)
Monday 24 March, 11:30 - 13:00
Riverside Lecture Theatre

Closing Panel

Evidence-based Policy: Towards an Improved Research-policy Equilibrium in Africa
Tuesday 25 March 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Riverside Lecture Theatre
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SUBMISSION INFORMATION

CALL FOR PAPERS

Read the full call for papers. The call is now closed.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Read our step-by-step guide to submitting a paper for the CSAE Conference.

FUNDING

There is a limited budget to fund African presenters who are currently living and working in Africa, and who were travelling from Africa to the CSAE Conference 2025. If awarded, funded participants attended both a pre-conference workshop in late 2024 in as well as the CSAE Conference 2025 in March 2025, in Oxford, UK.

FURTHER INFORMATION

FAQs

Read our Frequently Asked Questions for responses to common queries about the CSAE Conference.

Contact Us

If you need to get in touch with the CSAE team, please email us at csae.conference@economics.ox.ac.uk.

Topic Information

Find out more about the paper topics for the CSAE Conference

Speaker Guidance

Find out what you need to prepare as a speaker (presenter) at the CSAE Conference.

Important Dates

View important dates for submission and registration for the CSAE Conference.

Registration Website

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