The conference will take place in-person, with presentations streamed to a broader external audience. In addition, STEG and the International Growth Centre (IGC) will co-host an add-on workshop on Wednesday 1 February 2023, jointly organised with the Private Sector Development Research Network (PSDRN), a research community curated by development finance institutions (DFIs). We also invite submissions for this workshop.
The Conference on Structural Transformation, Growth, and Economic Development will feature keynote talks and panels from distinguished academics and policy makers, as well as presentations of ongoing projects and recent research papers related to structural transformation. In addition to full-length presentations, the conference will include one or more sessions of short presentations to showcase the breadth of research being carried out, especially by younger scholars. Through the conference, we hope to highlight the diversity of research in the field and to disseminate some of the excellent research currently being funded by STEG. We also hope to offer opportunities for engagement and networking to early-career researchers from a wide range of institutions and geographies.
How to Apply to Present
We invite submissions for this conference from interested researchers on broad systemic patterns and processes of structural transformation and growth for low- and middle-income countries. We welcome submissions that consider structural transformation, in a comparative sense across time or space, or on more narrowly defined topics related to one or more of the STEG research themes:
- Data and measurement related to structural transformation
- Firms, frictions and spillovers, and industrial policy
- Labour, home production, and structural transformation
- Agricultural productivity and sectoral gaps
- Trade and spatial frictions
- Political economy and public investment
We particularly welcome work that also intersects with one or more of the IGC research themes:
- Internal barriers to firm growth and developing firm capabilities
- Market function, linkages, inclusive labour market policies, and structural transformation
- International and internal trade and trade policy
- Rural-urban migration and resilient cities
- Regulation and public investment
STEG and the IGC are also focused around three cross-cutting issues that are simultaneously relevant to many areas of structural transformation, including the research themes: gender, climate change and the environment, and inequality and inclusion. We particularly welcome papers that additionally address these issues. Papers targeting low-income economies in sub-Saharan Africa are of particular interest.
For the STEG/IGC/PSDRN workshop on Wednesday 1 February, we particularly welcome submissions that relate to investment frictions in less developed financial markets and/or submissions that relate to the macro-scale impacts of infrastructure investments and other large-scale private investments or technical assistance. The workshop will bring together academics with staffs from DFIs, who provide investment support and business solutions to accelerate structural transformation and sustainable growth in developing countries.
For both the Conference on Structural Transformation, Growth, and Economic Development and the STEG/IGC/PSDRN workshop, the objective is to add to the body of research and evidence that will inform policy in low-income countries; we consequently seek papers that have clear relevance to this goal.
The deadline for submission is Monday, 21 November 2022, 23:59 GMT.
Authors who already have a CEPR HUB profile can upload their submission by:
- Going to https://hub.cepr.org/ and logging in
- After you have logged in, go to https://hub.cepr.org/event/3724
- Click on “Step 1: Apply”
- Under “Apply to Attend” click “Yes”
- Tick the boxes that apply to you
- Tick “Would you like to submit a paper?”, upload your paper and supply the requested information. If you would like to submit the same paper to multiple themes, please ensure you make a separate submission for each theme you wish to submit your paper to.
- Click “Submit form” to make the submission.
Authors who do not have a CEPR HUB profile can upload their submission by:
- Creating a new profile here https://hub.cepr.org/user/register
- After you have logged in, go to https://hub.cepr.org/event/3724
- Click on “Step 1: Apply”
- Under “Apply to Attend” click “Yes”
- Tick the boxes that apply to you
- Tick “Would you like to submit a paper?”, upload your paper and supply the requested information. If you would like to submit the same paper to multiple themes, please ensure you make a separate submission for each theme you wish to submit your paper to.
- Click “Submit form” to make the submission.
If you have any difficulties registering or submitting a paper for this conference, please contact Mandy Chan, Head of Events, at mchan@cepr.org.
How to Attend
Details on how to register to attend the conference virtually will be released in the coming weeks.