AERC 61st Biannual Plenary
Theme: The Financial Technology (Fintech) Revolution in Africa
Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
Date: Sunday, 1st December 2024
AERC Central Bank Governors Forum
Theme: Debt Restructuring and SDR Reallocation in African Economic Recovery
This session is based on the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation(BMGF)- collaborative research project on “Evidence to drive reforms for Special Drawing Rights (SDR) financing in SSA economic recovery” that aims at situating the role of SDRs and informing plans and the needed policy reforms to access the RST financing considering the shocks and the spectre of debt distress hovering over the continent. Leading experts from different institutions will share insights from their latest research on debt restructuring and SDR reallocation in Africa and engage in a dynamic discussion on the value proposition for enhanced SDR allocations for African countries; the institutional barriers and conditionalities presenting constraints to African countries and; going beyond SDR: the possibilities and options that exist for SDR facilities to leverage productive investment and thereby increase domestic resource mobilizations.
Date: 1st December 2024
Time: 1550 -1650 HRS (GMT +3)
Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
2024 AFRICAN ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
Event Theme: Securing Africa’s Economic Future Amidst Rising Uncertainty
Plenary Session topic of discussion: Ensuring Stability and Growth Amidst Regional and Global Uncertainties
Location: Gaborone Botswana
Date: 24th November 2024
Financial Inclusion and Market Development in the East African Community (EAC)
Event Date: 28 October 2024
Theme: Financial Inclusion and Market Development in the East African Community
Political Economy and Institutional Structure of Data Policy and Governance in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks
Event Date: Thursday 31st October
Theme: Linking Evidence to Policy Action in Data Governance
Realizing the dream of education for all in Kenya
Date – Tuesday 8th October 2024
Venue – Mercure Hotel Upper Hill
Time – 8:00 AM
CGF-ODI-AERC Conference 2024 China-Africa Economic Interactions: Past, Present, and Future
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS University of London
Date: 12th – 13th Sep 2024
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Victor Murinde, Executive Director, AERC
Webinar on China-Africa Trade, Finance & FDI Report, on the road to FOCAC
Location: Online
Date: 7th – 20th Aug 2024
The Africa-China Reporting Project (ACRP), in collaboration with the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), invites journalists, researchers, and professionals to attend the capacity-building informative webinar on China-Africa Trade, Finance, and Foreign Direct Investment, in the road to FOCAC.
To reserve your spot for this webinar, kindly use the following link:
Reserve Now
Inter-Ministerial Policy Dialogue Meeting
Theme: Strengthening Primary Health Care financing and efficiency through Ministries of Health and Finance collaboration
Location: Tajpamodz Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia
Date: 17th – 20th June 2024
AfDB ANNUAL MEETING SIDE EVENT
Theme: Shaping Africa Voice on Special Drawing Rights Through Global Financial Architecture Reforms: From Allocation to Utilization
Location: Kenyatta International Conference Center (KICC)
Date: 30th May 2024
AfDB ANNUAL MEETING SIDE EVENT: Making The Global Financial Architecture Work For African Countries
Date: 30th May 2024
Time: 10.30AM – 12.30PM
AERC 60th Biannual Plenary
Theme: Youth, Demographic Dividend, Migration, and Economic Opportunities in African Economies
Date: 2nd, June 2024
Time: 09:00 -18:00Hrs (GMT+3)
AERC Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
Theme: Reforming the tax policy and Institutional measures for Kenya
Date: March 8, 2024
Time: 8:00-13:00HRS (GMT +3)
Location: @Mercure Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Announcing Webinar Series on Applied Quantitative Analysis
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) Pipeline Partnership program (P3-Africa), in collaboration with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) is pleased to announce a webinar series on applied quantitative analysis for graduate students in Economics and related disciplines at African universities.
Stakeholders Engagement Workshop
Theme: Reforming the tax policy and institutional measures for Kenya
Date: November 30, 2023
Time: 7.00 – 12:00 HRS(GMT+3)
AERC 59th Biannual Plenary
Theme : Youth, Demographic Dividend, Migration, and Economic Opportunities in African Economies
Date: 26th Nov 2023
The Impact of the War in Ukraine: Food Security and Compounding Development Challenges
- September 19, 2023
- 11:00 am
The event will be held on September 19, 2023, virtually on zoom, to disseminate the key policy findings and implications of the project, among policy experts in the field. The event will be held in English and French interpretation will be provided.
ERF acknowledges the financial support from IDRC and the partnership with the AERC and PEP.
The Debt-Climate Nexus in Africa and Development-Centered Solutions
- September 5, 2023
- 5:30 pm
Sub-Saharan African countries face increasing debt distress and vulnerability, with annual debt servicing costs accounting for 80% of climate finance needs. Multilateral cooperation is needed to focus on debt sustainability and climate goals. The Vulnerable Group of 20 and other developing countries have launched the Emergency Coalition for Debt Sustainability and Climate Prosperity, which will launch at the 2023 IMF/WB Group Annual Meetings. An African Climate Summit side event will discuss climate and development-centered frameworks for debt restructuring.
SDR allocation – Findings from AERC Workshops
- August 31, 2023
- 2:00 pm
The AERC with support from BMFG, is implementing a collaborative research project on “Evidence to drive reforms for Special Drawing Rights (SDR) financing in SSA economic recovery” focusing on countries that have high potential to use SDR allocations for development but currently face serious debt issues. The project focuses on the in-depth analysis of specific SDR financing issues in Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal and Kenya with the objective to increase evidence and awareness about the role of SDRs as well as produce policy recommendations that are responsive to the specific needs and policy priorities of the four countries and that influence the policymaking process in those countries. Four papers from the following Think Tanks will be presented during the session.
GPIR Ghana Dissemination Workshop
AERC, with funding from NORAD is implementing the country case studies phase of “Re-examining the Growth, Poverty, Inequality and Redistribution Relationships in Africa (GPIR project)’’ that covers 7 African countries: Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Cameroon, Malawi, Togo, and Nigeria. The researchers in the project have completed their papers and are expected to disseminate their findings in a national dissemination workshop.
The paper to be disseminated in Ghana is titled “Examining poverty dynamics in Ghana: evidence from longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional data” by Dede W. Gafa, Bernardin Senadza, and Louis Hodey.
The University of Ghana – Economics Department will convene the workshop on behalf of AERC on 2 August 2023 from 9.00 am at the CEDI Conference Center at the University of Ghana in Accra.
Africa Human Capital Heads of State Summit
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) and the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) will be co-hosting a Think Tank knowledge sharing session on 24 July 2023 at the Africa Human Capital Heads of States Summit in in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre (JNICC). This summit, hosted by the Government of Tanzania, will focus on accelerating Africa’s economic growth through addressing learning poverty and skill gaps.
Date: July 25th – 26rh, 2023
Location: Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre (JNICC) – Dar es salaam
AERC SESSION : The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) 11th Annual Africa Evidence Summit
Date: June 19th – 20rh, 2023
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
The 2023 Africa Meeting of the Econometric Society (AFES 2023)
Date: June 1st – 3rd, 2023
Time: 0900Hrs (GMT +3)
Click here to access negotiated rate at Radisson Blu Upper Hill
Scan the QR code below to view the program
AERC In County Research Dissemination Workshop on Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa (CCEDA)
- May 3, 2023
Topic: Climate change and resilient feeding practices for cattle in Benin
Session I: Dual purpose crops productivity and small-scale dairy farmers’ food security toward climate variability and change in Benin
Session II: How to treat sorghum and maize straws with urea to better feed dairy cattle in dry season?
Practical work session: Straw treatment technique with urea
58th Biannual Plenary Session on African economies
AERC wishes to announce the upcoming 58th Biannual Plenary Session on African Economies: Recovery Agenda from Multiple Shocks. The PlenarySession will bring together world-class development economists and experts on African economies to offer fresh insights and perspectives as well as define new frontiers of research that respond to the pressing needs of policymakers.
Date: Monday, 22nd May 2023
Time: 3:00 pm EAT.
Dissemination workshop on the research report entitled “Determinants of Financial Exclusion in Central African Republic (CAR)”
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) have set up a research program dedicated to post-conflict countries. This program focuses on the issue of financial inclusion in Africa, targeting nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2021 and 2022, several virtual meetings were organised to present the methodological notes and draft reports. In October 2022, a forum for policymakers and researchers was organised in Nairobi, Kenya. In accordance with AERC’s research program management policy, authors are required to organise national research report dissemination workshops. The National Coordination of CERAPE-RCA, in collaboration with the Executive Secretariat of CREA and the Regional Coordination of CERAPE, has decided to organise a dissemination workshop on the research report entitled “Determinants of Financial Exclusion in CAR” on April 14, 2023, in Bangui (CAR).
25th SERIES OF THE AERC SENIOR POLICY SEMINAR (SPS)
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) will host the twenty fifth series of the Senior Policy Seminar (SPS XXV) on 29-30, March 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya with a broad theme Human Capital Development in Africa. Four papers will be presented followed by a policy roundtable. The roundtable will be a mix of policy makers, paper presenters, non-state, and private sector actors.
AERC senior policy seminars are forums designed specifically to bring together senior policymakers from Africa to exchange experiences and deliberate on topical issues pertaining to sustainable development of their economies. The exchange involves an intense two-day dialogue among senior policy makers, intellectual leaders, private sector actors, and civil society based on policy-oriented research conducted by AERC network members. The ultimate goal is to promote policy based on rigor and evidence.
Note: The resources are purely for reference purpose only and cannot therefore be cited.
Adam Smith Tercentenary Commemoration
AERC will host a high panel discussion for Adam Smith’s Tercentenary on the side-lines of the AFES 2023 in Nairobi.
Date: June 1st – 3rd, 2023
REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON COVID-19 RESPONSES FOR EQUITY (CORE)
Theme: Covid-19 Responses for Equity
Date: 17th – 19th January 2023,
Location: Dakar, Senegal.
AERC 61st Biannual Plenary
Theme: The Financial Technology (Fintech) Revolution in Africa
Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
Date: Sunday, 1st December 2024
AERC Central Bank Governors Forum
Theme: Debt Restructuring and SDR Reallocation in African Economic Recovery
This session is based on the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation(BMGF)- collaborative research project on “Evidence to drive reforms for Special Drawing Rights (SDR) financing in SSA economic recovery” that aims at situating the role of SDRs and informing plans and the needed policy reforms to access the RST financing considering the shocks and the spectre of debt distress hovering over the continent. Leading experts from different institutions will share insights from their latest research on debt restructuring and SDR reallocation in Africa and engage in a dynamic discussion on the value proposition for enhanced SDR allocations for African countries; the institutional barriers and conditionalities presenting constraints to African countries and; going beyond SDR: the possibilities and options that exist for SDR facilities to leverage productive investment and thereby increase domestic resource mobilizations.
Date: 1st December 2024
Time: 1550 -1650 HRS (GMT +3)
Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
2024 AFRICAN ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
Event Theme: Securing Africa’s Economic Future Amidst Rising Uncertainty
Plenary Session topic of discussion: Ensuring Stability and Growth Amidst Regional and Global Uncertainties
Location: Gaborone Botswana
Date: 24th November 2024
Financial Inclusion and Market Development in the East African Community (EAC)
Event Date: 28 October 2024
Theme: Financial Inclusion and Market Development in the East African Community
Political Economy and Institutional Structure of Data Policy and Governance in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks
Event Date: Thursday 31st October
Theme: Linking Evidence to Policy Action in Data Governance
Realizing the dream of education for all in Kenya
Date – Tuesday 8th October 2024
Venue – Mercure Hotel Upper Hill
Time – 8:00 AM
CGF-ODI-AERC Conference 2024 China-Africa Economic Interactions: Past, Present, and Future
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS University of London
Date: 12th – 13th Sep 2024
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Victor Murinde, Executive Director, AERC
Webinar on China-Africa Trade, Finance & FDI Report, on the road to FOCAC
Location: Online
Date: 7th – 20th Aug 2024
The Africa-China Reporting Project (ACRP), in collaboration with the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), invites journalists, researchers, and professionals to attend the capacity-building informative webinar on China-Africa Trade, Finance, and Foreign Direct Investment, in the road to FOCAC.
To reserve your spot for this webinar, kindly use the following link:
Reserve Now
Inter-Ministerial Policy Dialogue Meeting
Theme: Strengthening Primary Health Care financing and efficiency through Ministries of Health and Finance collaboration
Location: Tajpamodz Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia
Date: 17th – 20th June 2024
AfDB ANNUAL MEETING SIDE EVENT
Theme: Shaping Africa Voice on Special Drawing Rights Through Global Financial Architecture Reforms: From Allocation to Utilization
Location: Kenyatta International Conference Center (KICC)
Date: 30th May 2024
AfDB ANNUAL MEETING SIDE EVENT: Making The Global Financial Architecture Work For African Countries
Date: 30th May 2024
Time: 10.30AM – 12.30PM
AERC 60th Biannual Plenary
Theme: Youth, Demographic Dividend, Migration, and Economic Opportunities in African Economies
Date: 2nd, June 2024
Time: 09:00 -18:00Hrs (GMT+3)
AERC Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
Theme: Reforming the tax policy and Institutional measures for Kenya
Date: March 8, 2024
Time: 8:00-13:00HRS (GMT +3)
Location: @Mercure Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Announcing Webinar Series on Applied Quantitative Analysis
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) Pipeline Partnership program (P3-Africa), in collaboration with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) is pleased to announce a webinar series on applied quantitative analysis for graduate students in Economics and related disciplines at African universities.
Stakeholders Engagement Workshop
Theme: Reforming the tax policy and institutional measures for Kenya
Date: November 30, 2023
Time: 7.00 – 12:00 HRS(GMT+3)
AERC 59th Biannual Plenary
Theme : Youth, Demographic Dividend, Migration, and Economic Opportunities in African Economies
Date: 26th Nov 2023
The Impact of the War in Ukraine: Food Security and Compounding Development Challenges
- September 19, 2023
- 11:00 am
The event will be held on September 19, 2023, virtually on zoom, to disseminate the key policy findings and implications of the project, among policy experts in the field. The event will be held in English and French interpretation will be provided.
ERF acknowledges the financial support from IDRC and the partnership with the AERC and PEP.
The Debt-Climate Nexus in Africa and Development-Centered Solutions
- September 5, 2023
- 5:30 pm
Sub-Saharan African countries face increasing debt distress and vulnerability, with annual debt servicing costs accounting for 80% of climate finance needs. Multilateral cooperation is needed to focus on debt sustainability and climate goals. The Vulnerable Group of 20 and other developing countries have launched the Emergency Coalition for Debt Sustainability and Climate Prosperity, which will launch at the 2023 IMF/WB Group Annual Meetings. An African Climate Summit side event will discuss climate and development-centered frameworks for debt restructuring.
SDR allocation – Findings from AERC Workshops
- August 31, 2023
- 2:00 pm
The AERC with support from BMFG, is implementing a collaborative research project on “Evidence to drive reforms for Special Drawing Rights (SDR) financing in SSA economic recovery” focusing on countries that have high potential to use SDR allocations for development but currently face serious debt issues. The project focuses on the in-depth analysis of specific SDR financing issues in Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal and Kenya with the objective to increase evidence and awareness about the role of SDRs as well as produce policy recommendations that are responsive to the specific needs and policy priorities of the four countries and that influence the policymaking process in those countries. Four papers from the following Think Tanks will be presented during the session.
GPIR Ghana Dissemination Workshop
AERC, with funding from NORAD is implementing the country case studies phase of “Re-examining the Growth, Poverty, Inequality and Redistribution Relationships in Africa (GPIR project)’’ that covers 7 African countries: Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Cameroon, Malawi, Togo, and Nigeria. The researchers in the project have completed their papers and are expected to disseminate their findings in a national dissemination workshop.
The paper to be disseminated in Ghana is titled “Examining poverty dynamics in Ghana: evidence from longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional data” by Dede W. Gafa, Bernardin Senadza, and Louis Hodey.
The University of Ghana – Economics Department will convene the workshop on behalf of AERC on 2 August 2023 from 9.00 am at the CEDI Conference Center at the University of Ghana in Accra.
Africa Human Capital Heads of State Summit
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) and the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) will be co-hosting a Think Tank knowledge sharing session on 24 July 2023 at the Africa Human Capital Heads of States Summit in in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre (JNICC). This summit, hosted by the Government of Tanzania, will focus on accelerating Africa’s economic growth through addressing learning poverty and skill gaps.
Date: July 25th – 26rh, 2023
Location: Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre (JNICC) – Dar es salaam
AERC SESSION : The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) 11th Annual Africa Evidence Summit
Date: June 19th – 20rh, 2023
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
The 2023 Africa Meeting of the Econometric Society (AFES 2023)
Date: June 1st – 3rd, 2023
Time: 0900Hrs (GMT +3)
Click here to access negotiated rate at Radisson Blu Upper Hill
Scan the QR code below to view the program
AERC In County Research Dissemination Workshop on Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa (CCEDA)
- May 3, 2023
Topic: Climate change and resilient feeding practices for cattle in Benin
Session I: Dual purpose crops productivity and small-scale dairy farmers’ food security toward climate variability and change in Benin
Session II: How to treat sorghum and maize straws with urea to better feed dairy cattle in dry season?
Practical work session: Straw treatment technique with urea
58th Biannual Plenary Session on African economies
AERC wishes to announce the upcoming 58th Biannual Plenary Session on African Economies: Recovery Agenda from Multiple Shocks. The PlenarySession will bring together world-class development economists and experts on African economies to offer fresh insights and perspectives as well as define new frontiers of research that respond to the pressing needs of policymakers.
Date: Monday, 22nd May 2023
Time: 3:00 pm EAT.
Dissemination workshop on the research report entitled “Determinants of Financial Exclusion in Central African Republic (CAR)”
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) have set up a research program dedicated to post-conflict countries. This program focuses on the issue of financial inclusion in Africa, targeting nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2021 and 2022, several virtual meetings were organised to present the methodological notes and draft reports. In October 2022, a forum for policymakers and researchers was organised in Nairobi, Kenya. In accordance with AERC’s research program management policy, authors are required to organise national research report dissemination workshops. The National Coordination of CERAPE-RCA, in collaboration with the Executive Secretariat of CREA and the Regional Coordination of CERAPE, has decided to organise a dissemination workshop on the research report entitled “Determinants of Financial Exclusion in CAR” on April 14, 2023, in Bangui (CAR).
25th SERIES OF THE AERC SENIOR POLICY SEMINAR (SPS)
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) will host the twenty fifth series of the Senior Policy Seminar (SPS XXV) on 29-30, March 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya with a broad theme Human Capital Development in Africa. Four papers will be presented followed by a policy roundtable. The roundtable will be a mix of policy makers, paper presenters, non-state, and private sector actors.
AERC senior policy seminars are forums designed specifically to bring together senior policymakers from Africa to exchange experiences and deliberate on topical issues pertaining to sustainable development of their economies. The exchange involves an intense two-day dialogue among senior policy makers, intellectual leaders, private sector actors, and civil society based on policy-oriented research conducted by AERC network members. The ultimate goal is to promote policy based on rigor and evidence.
Note: The resources are purely for reference purpose only and cannot therefore be cited.
Adam Smith Tercentenary Commemoration
AERC will host a high panel discussion for Adam Smith’s Tercentenary on the side-lines of the AFES 2023 in Nairobi.
Date: June 1st – 3rd, 2023
REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON COVID-19 RESPONSES FOR EQUITY (CORE)
Theme: Covid-19 Responses for Equity
Date: 17th – 19th January 2023,
Location: Dakar, Senegal.
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