Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

🎉 📣 REGISTRATION IS OPEN for the CSAE Conference 2025 #OxCSAE2025 https://cvent.me/MmdZ3g The CSAE Conference brings together colleagues from across the #development #economics community to discuss Africa. The event will run from 23 to 25 March 2025 in Oxford, UK. 📅 23-25 March 2025 🏛 St Catherine's College, Oxford, UK 💻 Register: https://cvent.me/MmdZ3g ℹ Event website: https://cvent.me/PBdYzE 🗣 Keynote speaker: James Robinson (Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences 2024 winner, University of Chicago, University of Nigeria, Nsukka) https://cvent.me/vbN029 📽 Why should you attend? https://lnkd.in/eJwNXZzq

📽️ Watch CSAE researchers give takeaways from their research in our new CSAE Key Research Takeaways videos https://lnkd.in/evcsaAb5 Videos: 🔹 Ashley Pople on 'Anticipatory cash transfers' https://lnkd.in/eUYdMme4 🔹 Dennis Egger on 'Effects of cash transfers on the wider community' https://lnkd.in/eGKNUFbJ 🔹 Stefan Dercon on 'How to get growth and development' https://lnkd.in/ea3FsFWt 🔹 Anandi Mani on 'Improving cash transfer design' https://lnkd.in/eHxEum4k 🔹 Romuald Méango on 'Public sector versus private sector hiring' https://lnkd.in/enFAhfc3 🔹 Noam Angrist on 'Gaps between policymaking and service deliver' https://lnkd.in/eTYxtUc6 Includes CSAE researchers from the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and Oxford Department of International Development, and What Works Hub for Global Education. Find out more about our people: https://lnkd.in/eMZmnJAp

📢We're #hiring a Senior Research & Policy Officer at the CSAE's Economic Policy Network https://lnkd.in/eXBcWjaH Join the EPN team, based at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and work on research projects to support African policymakers deal with global and local challenges they're facing, including: the debt and macroeconomic growth crisis following COVID and the changing geopolitical situation; the impact of climate change and required energy transition; and the need for more effective government to overcome the governance and implementation deficit in a world with scarcer resources. Working with Stefan Dercon and Pascal Mensah. ⏰ Application deadline: 13 January 2025 ℹ️https://lnkd.in/eXBcWjaH The Economic Policy Network (EPN) provides impartial, context-specific, research-informed advice to help developing country policymakers & their advisors deliver on their economic & development mandates. Find out more about the EPN: https://lnkd.in/eyxS6nrT

Have you read the November 2024 issue of the Journal of African Economies? https://lnkd.in/gYTKCW77 Included in this issue: 🌟 Editor's choice: 🔸 Labour Mobility and Innovation in Africa ✒️ Linguère Mously Mbaye, Assi Okara, Massimiliano Tani  https://lnkd.in/g8Ss-Bap 🔸 Conditional Political Cycles in Africa: Myth or Reality?  ✒️ Christine O Strong https://lnkd.in/gY-kmkxD 🔸 Africa's Great Moderation ✒️ Sebastian Krantz #openaccess https://lnkd.in/gCdKjDW6 🔸 How Have Formal Firms Recovered From the Pandemic? Insights From Survey and Tax Administrative Data in Zambia ✒️ Christopher Hoy, Laban Simbeye, Aliisa Koivisto, Mashekwa Maboshe, PhD, Muhammad Abdullah Ali Malik, PhD https://lnkd.in/g5SbSCY8 🔸 Does Youth Resentment Matter in Understanding the Surge of Extremist Violence in Burkina Faso?  ✒️ Alexandra T Tapsoba, Jean-Louis Combes, Pascal Combes Motel https://lnkd.in/g3ARYdBK The #journalofafricaneconomies is published by Oxford University Press. https://lnkd.in/eaBeMCd6

📽️Watch CSAE Director Prof. Stefan Dercon's lecture 'South Africa’s Gamble on Economic Development and Inclusion, Then and Now' online via the ERSA's YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/eXfY3Dm6 Organised by Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA), CSAE, & University of Pretoria . Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.

This week we've been in Pretoria, South Africa, for the CSAE Economic Development in Africa Workshop 2024. https://lnkd.in/drYeJxtg The CSAE Workshop is a four day event for funded participants of the main CSAE Conference. The workshop takes place prior to the main conference and is hosted by a different university in Africa each year. This year's workshop is hosted by the University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa.

Join us TODAY for Stefan Dercon's online lecture 'South Africa’s Gamble on Economic Development & Inclusion, Then & Now'. https://lnkd.in/eGeW2wPr 📅 04 December, 4 pm (GMT), 6 pm (SAST) 📽️ Live streamed 💻 Register here by 3 pm (GMT) today: https://lnkd.in/eGeW2wPr This lecture is part of the CSAE Economic Development in Africa Workshop 2024, organised in partnership between the CSAE, University of Pretoria , and Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA). https://lnkd.in/drYeJxtg Stefan Dercon is CSAE Director and Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and the Department of Economics, University of Oxford https://lnkd.in/euN9rbuG

🌟 NEW Urban Labour Markets in Africa Studentship #funding https://lnkd.in/eTH3iUv4 The Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford is offering a new scholarship for DPhil candidates doing quantitative economic research on urban labour markets in Africa, supervised by the CSAE's Kate Orkin (#MBRG). Also includes becoming a member of the CSAE! ℹ️ Covers fees (3 yrs) and set amount for living expenses ⏰ Deadline: 09 January 2025 https://lnkd.in/eTH3iUv4 Apply today. 👇

What is the role of international trade in economic development? EGC's Ana Cecília Fieler and coauthors Banu Demir, Yi (Daniel) Xu, and Kelly Kaili Yang study the propagation of trade shocks through production networks. Using a rich micro-level dataset from Turkey, they document strong assortative matching of skills in the firms’ production networks. Hear the researchers describe their study on the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford podcast:

📣 Only one week left to register for the online lecture 'South Africa's Gamble on Economic Development and Inclusion, Then and Now' by CSAE Director Stefan Dercon. https://lnkd.in/eGeW2wPr 📅 04 December 2024, 4 pm (GMT) / 6 pm (SAST) 💻 Hybrid, join online by registering below (by 3 pm GMT on 04 Dec) ℹ️ https://lnkd.in/eGeW2wPr 🗣️ Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and Department of Economics, University of Oxford. ℹ️ Find out more about Professor Dercon: https://lnkd.in/euN9rbuG This lecture is part of the CSAE Economic Development in Africa Workshop 2024, taking place at University of Pretoria from 03 to 06 December 2024. ℹ️ https://lnkd.in/drYeJxtg