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DIAL Development
Conference
Shocks in
Developing Countries
June 30th
and July 1st 2011, Paris
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Submissions are now closed
The
University of Paris-Dauphine (UPD) and the
French Institute of Research for Development
(IRD) jointly organize an international
conference on development economics in Paris.
The conference should provide a forum to discuss
innovative theoretical and empirical research on
micro and macro shocks and their impact on
developing countries. Interested researchers are
invited to send a paper dealing with one of the
following suggested topics or a related one
focused on developing countries:
Micro and
macro-economic impacts of health
shocks
Economics of the family and
informal social security
networks
Income fluctuations and
consumption smoothing
Migration and remittances as an
insurance device
Micro-insurance and micro-credit
Volatility and external
financial flows
Climate change and impacts of
natural disasters
Impacts of exchange rate and
international price fluctuations
Trade liberalisation and
productivity shocks
Political instability and war
Keynote speakers:
Ann Harrison (University of California,
Berkeley) and Stefan Dercon (Oxford University).
Submitted papers
can be sent in a preliminary form. Abstracts
alone will not be accepted. Please submit your
proposals including keywords and a 150 word
abstract in PDF form by
February 15th, 2011 via e-mail to:
dial-conference@dial.prd.fr
The scientific
committee will evaluate all proposals and give
particular attention to originality, analytical
rigor and policy relevance. The results of the
selection process will be announced by April
4th, 2011.
Organizing committee:
Philippe De Vreyer (UPD), Ivan Ledezma (UPD),
Sabine Mage (UPD), Christophe Jalil Nordman
(IRD), Xavier Oudin (IRD), Nelly Rakoto-Tiana
(IRD), Julia Vaillant (IRD).
Scientific committee:
Touhami Abdelkhalek (INSEA
Rabat), Marta Castilho (Universidade Federal do
Rio de Janeiro), Denis Cogneau (IRD and PSE),
Philippe De Vreyer (UPD), Michael Grimm (ISS),
Flore Gubert (IRD and PSE), Marc Gurgand
(CNRS-PSE), Hanan Jacoby (World Bank), Sylvie
Lambert (INRA-PSE), Aly Mbaye (Université Cheikh
Anta Diop de Dakar), Sandrine Mesplé-Somps
(IRD), El Mouhoub Mouhoud (UPD), Christophe
Jalil Nordman (IRD), Marc Raffinot (UPD),
Jean-Marc Siroën (UPD), James Tybout (Pennsylvania
State University).
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