Konference: Årlig konference på Center of African Economies (Roskilde)

We gladly announce the second annual conference at the Center of African Economies on December 3 & 4. The conference brings together researchers across Denmark and abroad who are conducting cutting-edge research on African economies from different disciplinary perspectives. 

This year’s conference addresses all of the key themes related to economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa: extractive sectors, agriculture and agribusiness, manufacturing, local firms, foreign direct investment, international standards and new forms of public-private development aid. 

There will be 23 papers as well as a keynote talk presenting findings from the AfriCap project, a roundtable discussion on technology transfer and foreign direct investment, and a drinks reception. The full program is attached.

Please join us! Register at https://events.ruc.dk/ANNUAL-CAE-CONFERENCE/front-page.html

Programme

8:30 – 9:00: Welcome 
Coffee and croissants

9:15-10:45: Large-scale FDI in Extractive Sectors and Agribusiness
Presenters: Lars Buur (RUC), Malin Nystrand (RUC), Rasmus Pedersen (RUC/DIIS)

10:45 – 11:00: Break

11:00 – 12:00:  State-Business Relations & Local Content Requirements in Africa
Presenters: Søren Jeppesen and Michael Hansen (CBS)

12:00 – 13:00: Lunch 

13:00 – 14:30:  African-owned firms entering new export sectors 
Presenters: Cornelia Staritz (Univ of Vienna), Ayu Melese (RUC), Sameer Azizi (RUC)

14:30 – 14:45: Break

14:45-15:15: ‘Linking-In by FDI: The role of firm-level linkages for knowledge transfer’, John Rand (DERG, KU) 

15:30 – 16:00: AFRICAP project conclusion lecture: 

Lindsay Whitfield, ‘Getting out of the Learning Trap: African-owned firms, FDI and technology transfer in new export sectors’ 

16:00 – 17:15:  Roundtable Discussion

Under what conditions does technology transfer from foreign to local firms occur? Discussants: John Rand, Stefano Ponte, Lars Buur, Michael Hansen, Lindsay Whitfield, Cornelia Staritz 

17:15 – 18:00:  Reception, in the foyer of building 25 

4 December 2018, Room 25.1-035 

8:30 – 9:00: Coffee and buns 

9:00 – 10:30:  Changing dynamics of business involvement in development aid to Africa
Presenters: Lisa Ann Richey, Mette Fog Olwig, Mie Vestergaard (RUC) 

10:30 – 10:45: Break

10:45 – 12:00: ‘Business and sustainability in Africa: Green capital accumulation and the sustainability supplier squeeze’, Stefano Ponte (CBS) 

‘Public-Private Partnerships: Investigating a New Approach to Rural Development and Nature Conservation in Africa’, Stig Jensen (CAS, KU) 

12:00 – 12:45: Lunch

12:45 – 14:45:  Economic and social transformations under colonial rule

‘A Federation of Income Inequality: A comparative study of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe’, Jutta Bolt, Erik Green and Ellen Hillbom (Lund Univ) 

 

‘Inequality and Extraction in the Long Run: Tanzania c.1930-2015, Sascha Klocke (Lund Univ)
Regional and Gender Inequalities in Education and Income Inequality in Ghana, c. 1890- 2010: European Colonialism or African Agency?’, Prince Aboagye (Lund Univ)
‘Comparing Fertility Trends in German Cameroon and East Nigeria (1889 – 1945)’, Nicolai Baumert (Lund Univ) 

14:45 – 15:00: Break 

15:00 – 17:00: Agricultural change: Past and present 

‘Did it pay to be a pioneer? Inequality and wealth accumulation strategies in a newly settled frontier society’, Jeanne Cilliers (Lund Univ) 

‘When the leader leaves the market: the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the effects of bans’, Igor Martins (Lund Univ) 

‘Working poor? A long-run analysis of farm workers’ remuneration in Kenya and Tanzania, 1920-2017’, Maria Fibaek (Lund Univ) 

‘The Missing Middle: Making sense of agricultural policy in Mozambique’s Manica Province in the 2000s’, Amanda Hammer (CAS, KU), 

 

 

Public event, auditorium of building 25 (25.2-035)