Conference on Growth Dynamics in Africa (OFCE-IFC-SciencesPo)

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Thursday, September 26 and Friday, September 27, 2024

OFCE, 10 Place de Catalogne – 75014 Paris

With the support of the IFC (International Finance Corporation / World Bank Group), OFCE is organizing a conference dedicated to the Dynamics of Growth in Africa on September 26 and 27, 2024, in Paris. The conference will specifically address four main themes:

1. Dynamics of growth in Africa: Growth, crises, and resilience
   • Growth and macroeconomic volatility. How does the growth from the early 2000s redefine convergence? What resilience levers against the current overlay of global crises?
2. Measuring growth
   • Development of macroeconomic statistics by national and international organizations.
   • What indicators? What implications for public policy definition? What implications for access to external finance?
3. Identifying the determinants of growth: Theoretical and empirical modeling
   • What channels for the diffusion of international shocks? How to model the relationship between public finance sustainability and social and health policies? What effects of the ongoing evolution of the regulatory and institutional framework of trade and financial exchanges (AfCFTA, Franc Zone…)?
4. Growth scenarios: National and regional growth trajectories, sectoral growth trajectories
   • What diversification/specialization for economic transition? What agriculture for food security? What development and what challenges for the financial and technological sector?

Invited speakers:

• François BOURGUIGNON (Paris School of Economics)
• Baomiavotse Vahinala RAHARINIRINA (University of Fianarantsoa)
• Vera SONGWE (Chair & Founder, Liquidity and Sustainability Facility)

Scientific Committee:

• Giscard Assoumou-Ella (University of Libreville, Gabon), Cécile Bastidon (LEAD, University of Toulon and CAC-IXXI, Lyon Complex Systems Institute), Antoine Bouët (CEPII & U. Bordeaux), Chiara Criscuolo (IFC / World Bank Group), Cheikh Tidiane Ndiaye (Gaston Berger University, Senegal), Bruno Emmanuel Ongo Nkoa (University of Yaoundé 2, Cameroon), Constant Ouattara (LEAD, University of Toulon), Xavier Ragot (OFCE-Sciences Po & CNRS), Vincent Touzé (OFCE-Sciences Po), Nadège Yameogo (IFC / World Bank Group).

Working language: French (primary), English / Conference format: In-person (and possibly hybrid)

Organizers: Cécile Bastidon (LEAD, University of Toulon and CAC-IXXI, Lyon Complex Systems Institute), Vincent Touzé (OFCE)