CEPR’s Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) programme and the International Growth Centre (IGC) are delighted to jointly host the Conference on Structural Transformation, Growth, and Economic Development in recognition of the overlapping communities and interest areas of the two programmes. Both funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), STEG is a research initiative that aims to provide a better understanding of structural change, productivity, and growth in low- and middle-income countries, while IGC is a global research centre that works with policymakers in developing countries to promote inclusive and sustainable growth through pathbreaking research.
STEG’s third annual conference will gather researchers and practitioners working in the fields of structural transformation, growth, and economic development. The conference programme features presentations and keynotes on the latest research and policy at the frontier of these areas. In addition to full-length presentations, the conference will include two sessions of short presentations to showcase the breadth of research being carried out. 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.Preceding this event, British International Investment (BII) is hosting the Private Sector Finance and Development Workshop on Wednesday 1 February in collaboration with the Private Sector Development Research Network (PSDRN), STEG, and the IGC.
Programme & Resources
If you weren't able to attend the conference or if you would simply like to go back and review any of the presentations, you can find all related papers, slides, and recordings (Day 1 Morning, Day 1 Afternoon, Day 2 Morning, Day 2 Afternoon), where available, on this programme.
Thursday, 2 February
08:50 - Doug Gollin, Joe Kaboski, and Jonathan Leape - Welcoming Remarks
09:00 - Nathaniel Lane - The Who, What, When, and How of Industrial Policy: A Text-Based Approach (with Réka Juhász, Emily Oehlsen, and Verónica C. Pérez) [slides]
10:00 - Marina Ngoma - Chinese Imports and Industrialization in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia [slides]
11:00 - BREAK
11:15 - Elisa Keller - Capital Embodied Structural Change (with Julieta Caunedo) [slides]
12:15 - Speed Round Session 1
- 12:15 - Jaedo Choi - Technology Adoption and Late Industrialization (with Younghun Shim) [slides]
- 12:35 - Josep Pijoan-Mas - Macroeconomic Development, Rural Exodus, and Uneven Industrialization (with Tomas Budi-Ors) [slides]
- 12:55 - Beata Javorcik - Breaking Invisible Barriers: Does Fast Internet Improve Access to Input Markets? (with Banu Demir and Piyush Panigrahi)
13:15 - LUNCH
14:15 - STEG Partners' Panel
- Habtamu Edjigu (STEG Research Fellow, African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET))
- Robert Inklaar (Director) and Gaaitzen de Vries (Structural Change Expert, Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC))
- Joe Kaboski (Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame)
- Eric Hsu (Postdoctoral Associate) and Mitchell VanVuren (Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE))
15:15 - BREAK
15:30 - Marta Santamaria - Community Networks and Trade (with Johannes Boken, Lucie Gadenne, and Tushar Nandi) [slides]
16:30 - Ms. Kampeta Sayinzoga (Policy Keynote; online) - Industrial Growth, Competitiveness, and Trade Policies of Rwanda: The Role of Development Banking (CEO, Development Bank of Rwanda)
17:30 - Doug Gollin and Joe Kaboski - Closing Remarks
Friday, 3 February
08:50 - Doug Gollin and Joe Kaboski - Opening Remarks
09:00 - Qing Huang - Resource Rents, Urbanization, and Structural Transformation (with Victoria Wenxin Xie and Wei You) [slides]
10:00 - Allan Hsiao - Sea Level Rise and Urban Adaptation in Jakarta
11:00 - BREAK
11:15 - Prof. Nina Pavcnik (Academic Keynote) - Trade, Global Value Chains, and Jobs (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College) including FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms: Adjustments to New Export Opportunities (with Brian McCaig and Woan Foong Wong) [slides]
12:45 - LUNCH
13:45 - Speed Round Session 2
- 13:45 - Brian McCaig - Trade, Structural Change and Labour Market Transitions in Vietnam (with Ramisha Asghar) [slides]
- 14:05 - Veronica Salazar Restrepo - The General Equilibrium Effects of Anti-deforestation Policies: Evidence from Brazil (with Gabriel Leite Mariante) [slides]
- 14:25 - Paula Bustos - The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation (with Christoph Albert and Jacopo Ponticelli) [slides]
14:45 - BREAK
15:00 - Nathan Barker - The Effects of Female Land Inheritance on Economic Productivity in Ghana [slides]
16:00 - Tommaso Porzio - Self-Employment Within the Firm (with Vittorio Bassi, Jay Lee, Alessandra Peter, Ritwika Sen, and Esau Tugume) [slides]
17:00 - Doug Gollin and Robin Burgess - Closing Remarks
How to Apply to Present
Application to present at the conference is now closed. Final decisions on the selected papers to be presented at the conference have been returned.
How to Attend
Registration to attend the conference is now closed.
