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The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) held a special session on ‘Macroeconomic Stability, Financial Inclusion, and Welfare in Africa: Emerging Debates on Recovery Pathways’ at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) Conference 2024. The CSAE conference was held from 17 – 19 March 2024 at the St. Catherine College, University of Oxford, England. The session was chaired by Dr. Abbi Kedir, Director of Research, African Economic Research Consortium. 

The keynote speaker in this conference was Dr. Arkebe Oqubay (British Academy Global Professor, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Dr. Oqubay is also a former senior minister and special advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. 

Two AERC women researchers Fiennasah Annif Akem and Dr. Elizabeth Nanziri presented their papers titled ‘Implications of financial inclusion for poverty in Cameroon: a gendered analysis’ and ‘Financial inclusion, climate-related shocks, welfare outcomes in Ethiopia’, respectively. Dr. Nanziri  is a Senior Lecturer in development finance and the director of the African Centre for Development Finance at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, while Ms. Akem is from the University of Dschang, Cameroon. The discussants of these papers at the sessions were Niccolo Meriggi and Janine Aron respectively, all from the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.

The CSAE Conference was a three day event with a keynote, panels, and parallel sessions on a series of development economics topics. The conference brought together colleagues from across the development economics community to discuss Africa. The Centre for the Study of African Economies has been researching economic and social development in Africa since 1986.