Theme: The Business School in Africa as an Agent for Sustainable Business, Economic and Societal Development.

The objective of the conference is to further our understanding, from an empirical and measurement perspective, of developments in the area of income levels, income growth, productivity, poverty, and inequality in Africa. The conference will feature sessions dealing with problems and issues in...

Submissions are invited from the following areas: - Accounting and its allied disciplines - Economics and Finance - Management and its allied disciplines - Information and Communication and Technology - Public Administration and Management - Leadership - Business Law - Accounting & Business...

This year’s conference, will therefore be a conference with a difference. The focus will be on the achievements of the discipline over the last 50 years and to debate the current status and impact of agricultural economists in practice – whether it is in the private sector, public sector or...

Now in its 4th year Africa Rice Outlook continues to bring together the market’s biggest buyers, sellers and traders to capitalise on the growing trade importance of the region. With the global food situation volatile at best, the African region’s response to securing supplies is likely to...

Africa has demonstrated greater than expected resilience through the global economic crisis and has become one of the fastest-growing regions in the world. Improved political and macroeconomic stability, strengthened political commitment to private sector investment and better access to basic...

The workshop will review work in the areas of monetary economics, monetary policy, exchange rate determination and international economics, Real Business cycle and DSGE modelling, financial economics. Papers on any of these areas are invited

This is a workshop for locally based researchers to present their current work and discuss the work of others. Any research within the fields of international trade or industrial organisation is relevant, and both established economists and PhD students are encouraged to apply.

The course will be a hands-on course in a computer lab using SA-TERM, a model based on its Australian predecessor: TERM (The Enormous Regional Model) a "bottom-up" CGE model of Australia which treats each region as a separate economy. The high degree of regional detail makes TERM a useful tool...

Forum Sessions: - Developments and trends in social security - Demographic challenges - Governance and management - Extension of social security coverage - Focus on Africa - Social Security Summit