| dc.description | The African Economic Conference 2017 was held on the theme "Governance for Structural Transformation" from 04-06 December 2017. The Economic Commission for Africa jointly organized the event with the African Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme. The specific objectives of the Conference were to Promote knowledge management as an essential driver of policy dialogue, good policy planning, and implementation; Foster dialogue that promotes the exchange of ideas and innovative thinking among researchers, development practitioners, and African policymakers; Encourage and enhance research on economic and policy issues relating to the development of African economies; Provide an opportunity for young African researchers, Africans in the diaspora and regional and subregional organizations to disseminate their research findings and share information with African policymakers on the work that they do in the region.
On the second day of the sessions, the presentation and the discussion were on Trade and Industrial Policies for Structural Transformation at AEC 2017. John Anwanyu chaired it; the paper presented were:- Does trade policy impact food and agriculture global value chain participation of Sub-Saharan African countries?; Jean Balié, Davide Del Prete and Emiliano Magrini, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy, Pierluigi Montalbano, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and the University of Sussex, UK and Silvia Nenci, Roma Tre University, Italy The Discussants were:- Batanai Chikwene, ECA, Exporting, importing and wages in Africa: Evidence from matched employer-employee data. Marta Duda-Nyczak, ECA, Zambia and Christian Viegelahn, International Labour Organization, Switzerland; Linguere Mbaye, AfDB, Economic Interactions based on Free Trade Agreements between European Union and African Countries: a panel VAR approach. Léléng Kebalo, University of Lomé, Togo; Ojijo Odhiambo, UNDP. | en |
