Entwicklungsökonomischer Ausschuss
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The 3D Seminar The 3D seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum, in which one researcher and one practitioner touch upon key topics in development policy, stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory and practice divide. The sessions will be held at 3:00 PM (UTC +1, Berlin Time Zone).
Further information about the 3D seminar can be found on the website. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.
The Development Economics Committee of the German Economic Association invites submissions for the 2024 Doctoral Workshop, organized by Prof. Sebastian Vollmer at the University of Göttingen. This workshop is scheduled to take place on 26 September 2024 in Göttingen.
Participants must be registered doctoral students in development economics at a university in a German-speaking country, fluent in English, and have a draft research paper ready. Supervisor attendance is encouraged but not required.
While there are no fees, participants must arrange and fund their own accommodation, food, and travel. Interested applicants must submit extended abstracts (2-3 pages) or full papers (PDF) by 22 August 2024.
Further information can be found here.
The 2nd edition of the international research conference „Africa in the global economy – Uncertain future in turbulent times?“ hosted by the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) will take place in person on 5-6 December 2024 in Bonn, Germany. The organizers invite scholars to submit abstracts on their work on deepened economic relationships within Africa and with external partners until 1 May. The conference is jointly organized by IDOS, AERC, Boston University, ERF, the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance and the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains.
Further details can be found here.
Financial systems are developing rapidly around the global South. These developments increase the need for research into their effects, especially regarding issues of financial inclusion and individual as well as institutional responses.
To this end Heidelberg University’s South Asia Institute and the Department of Economics will host the sixth annual workshop “Finance and Development” in Heidelberg, Germany, on May 16 in the afternoon and May 17, 2024.
Deadline for submitting full papers and presenter nominations is February 2, 2024, with selection decisions to follow by March 8.
Further information can be found here.
The Research Training Group Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE) at the University of Passau is organizing the first DPE Forum on „Bytes and Behemoths: Understanding Power in Digital Platform Ecosystems,“ to be held on June 4-5, 2024. The forum will feature keynote speakers Professor Marshall van Alstyne (Boston University) and Professor Dr. Martin Selmayr (European Commission in Austria). Abstract submissions are welcomed until January 31, 2024.
The full Call for Papers can be found here.
The RWI in Essen is hosting the Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium (LEADS) on November 27-28, 2023, and invites submissions for research at the intersection of environment and development. Interested researchers should submit their work by September 30, 2023.
Please find further information here.
The Standing Field Committee of Development Economics of the German Economic Association invites submissions for this year’s doctoral workshop. It will be organized by Isabel Günther and the ETH Zürich Development Economics Group and takes place on September 28 and 29 2023 at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland.
Please find further information and the full CfP here.
The Doctoral Workshop 2022 of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association was organized by Professor Tilman Brück (IGZ, HU Berlin & ISDC) and took place on September 22nd and 23rd, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. The workshop’s aim was to enable doctoral students to improve their ongoing research, advise them on the preparation of a refereed journal article, practice academic discussions and build informal networks.
The Thailand-Vietnam Socio-Economic Panel (TVSEP) Team invites submissions to the international conference on “Shocks and resilience in rural Southeast Asia” to be held in Göttingen (as a hybrid event) on May 23rd and 24th, 2022.
The submission deadline is January 31st, 2022 (midnight CET).
For further information on the event and the Call for Papers, please click here.
The Research Conference on „Sustainability in Global Value Chains“, jointly organized by The Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), will take place on 7 December 2021 and is part of the Forum on Globalization and Industrialization (FGI 2021) held on 6 December 2021. It aims to bring together empirical research on sustainability topics in global value chains.
The organizers welcome submissions of full-length papers using micro and macro analyses, as well as quantitative and qualitative approaches. Interested applicants can submit the extended abstract by 31 May 2021 and the paper by 30 July 2021.
Further details on the conference as well as on the submission of papers can be found here.
The new program for the 3D Seminar Series for the summer term 2021 is now available. The seminar is organized by Sarah Langlotz and Lennart Kaplan (University of Göttingen) and aims at bringing together two speakers – one researcher and one practitioner – to touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice divide.
For further information, please click here .
The 14th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organization (PEIO) is hosted by Oxford University on January 13-15, 2022, bringing together economists and political scientists to address political economy issues related to international organizations.
The organizers are inviting submissions of both empirical and theoretical papers by September 30, 2021; submissions on topics more broadly related to international organization (e.g., foreign aid or international law) will also be considered.
Further details can be found here and on the conference website.
The 17th Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) on “Conflict, Migration, and Displacement” will be held online on October 11-12, 2021. The event is hosted by the University of Goettingen with Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne) as the keynote speaker and an open plenary on “Migration and Security Policy”, which is jointly organized by the HiCN, the Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig), and the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).
The organizers are inviting submissions of (preferably) full papers or extended abstracts by May 31, 2021 (23:59 CET).
For further information on the event and the Call for Papers, please click here.
The online conference on March 22nd & March 23rd 2021 is jointly organized by the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and the Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) and will consist of several sessions on carbon pricing, the possibilities of a just transition and the impacts of climate change on pro-poor growth, health and migration in low-income countries.
For further details and the program, please click here.
On 18 September 2020 six doctoral students presented their ongoing work at the Doctoral Workshop of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association. This year’s workshop was organized by Anke Hoeffler from the University of Konstanz in a hybrid format.
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The new autumn/winter program for the 3D Seminar Series is now available. The seminar is organized by Sarah Langlotz and Lennart Kaplan (University of Göttingen) and aims to bring together two speakers – one researcher and one practitioner – to touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice divide.
Click here for further information.
Sarah Langlotz and Lennart Kaplan from the University of Goettingen have released a new format for policy and practice exchange – the Digital Development Dialogue (3D). The aim of this 3D seminar series is to bring together two speakers – one researcher and one policymaker/practitioner – to discuss topics related to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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