June 02, 2014 -
June 03, 2014
The emergence of several developing economies as major global players has marked the rising prominence of development economics. This ABCDE conference, organized by the World Bank Development Economics Vice Presidency, reflected on the foundations and methods of this field of economics and considered how economic theory can be brought together with the new empirical development economics to boost the field as well as policymaking in this area.
The conference themes were:
The validity of experiments
Behavioral economics
Health and insurance
Labor contracts
Natural resources and market incentives
Finance and macroeconomics
Political economy of trade policy
Economics of the internet
Migration
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