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BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE ECONOMIC SOCIETY
OF SOUTH AFRICA, BIRCHWOOD HOTEL, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 3 - 5 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Abridged programme (Draft)

Keynote speakers

James Robinson is the Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and Institute Director of The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. He studied economics at the London School of Economics, the University of Warwick and Yale University. He previously taught in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne, the Department of Economics at the University of Southern California, the Departments of Economics and Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley and the Department of Government at Harvard. His main research interests are in comparative economic and political development with a focus on the long-run with a particular interest in Latin America and Sub- Saharan Africa. He is currently conducting research in Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Haiti and in Colombia where he has taught for many years during the summer at the University of the Andes in Bogotá.

Axel Dreher is professor of International and Development Politics at Heidelberg University. He is Editor of the Review of International Organizations and chairman of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association. Most of his research is in the field of political economy, economic development, and globalization.

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