Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2014: The Role of Theory in Development Economics

  • October 2024

    IZA/ECONtribute Workshop on the Economics of Education

    Online

    The 8th IZA/ECONtribute Workshop on the Economics of Education will convene international scholars focusing on the development of skills within both formal and informal educational contexts and their valuation in the labor market. The conference will feature a select group of presenters, alongside a poster session for local researchers from the host institutions. Presentations and the keynote speech will be accessible via Zoom to an external audience.

Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2014: The Role of Theory in Development Economics
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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