Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2011

 

Copenhagen, Denmark
20-21 June, 2011

The Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen and the United Nations University - World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) were jointly organising the 2011 Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE11) on 20-21 June 2011 at the University of Copenhagen.

The conference aimed at bringing together Nordic and international scholars for exchange of ideas and discussion of recent results within theoretical and applied development economics research. The Conference is an annual event in the Nordic countries and this year featured two prominent keynote speakers and a special session on trade and industrial policy.

Keynote Speakers

• Professor Howard Pack, Professor of Business and Public Policy, Economics, and Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Topic: “The Evaluation of Industrial Policy”
• Professor Tony Venables, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford, the UK. Topic: “Natural Resources and Development”

The special session

on trade and industrial policy was organised together with Dr John Page, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, and formerly Chief Economist for Africa and Director, poverty reduction at the World Bank. Dr Page is presently external UNU-WIDER Project Director for the joint Brookings-UNU-WIDER project on “Learning to Compete (L2C): Accelerating Industrial Development in Africa”.

Organizing Committee

• Professor Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen
• Professor Henrik Hansen, Institute of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
• Professor John Rand, Institute of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
• Professor Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland, and Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Secretary:
Ms Christel Brink Hansen, University of Copenhagen ()