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2nd Development Economics Workshop (DEW) 2025

A two-day workshop to facilitate collaboration among economists, policymakers and practitioners to enhance evidence-based policies and strategies for improving living standards.

Professor Marcel Fafchamps Professor of Economics, Senior Fellow of Stanford Institute for Economics Policy Research (SIEPR) and Freeman Spongli Institute (FSI) at Stanford University, USA

The Speakers

Professor Marcel Fafchamps

Professor of Economics, Senior Fellow of Stanford Institute for Economics Policy Research (SIEPR) and Freeman Spongli Institute (FSI) at Stanford University, USA

Professor Karen Macours

Chaired Professor at Paris School of Economics, Co-Chair of J-PAL’s Health Sector, and Senior Researcher at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France

The Department of Economics of Durham University Business School is organising the second Development Economics Workshop (DEW). It will be held on 18-19 June 2025 at the Durham University Business School in the UK.

There is no registration fee.

We invite paper submissions from all major fields of development economics (e.g., poverty, inequality, environment and climate change, education, healthcare, infrastructure, agriculture, foreign aid, institutions and cultures in both developing and developed countries).