Addis Ababa to host 2009 African Economic Conference

In organising this conference, the AfDB and the ECA seek to foster the sharing of ideas between economists and policy-makers. The conference is expected to improve upon the quality of economic policies designed within the region as well as the dynamic and sustained growth necessary to reduce poverty through knowledge-sharing.

Objectives of the conference include:

• Promoting knowledge-sharing as a necessary component of policy design and implementation;
  
• Fostering dialogue and promoting knowledge-sharing among economists and African policy-makers;
  
• Encouraging and strengthening economic research on African economic development;
  
• Providing regional and sub-regional organisations the opportunity to disseminate their research findings and to share information on research they are conducting on the continent with African policy-makers.

The first edition of the African economic conference was organised by the AfDB in November 2006 in Tunis, Tunisia.