University of California
Africa Initiative
Beginning in 2009, the ALL-UC Group, in association with the Center for the Evolution of the Global Economy at UC-Davis launched an initiative to focus on the lessons of history for economic growth in what is now the poorest area of the world, Sub-Saharan Africa.
This initiative will organize speakers and events focused on the historical dimensions of Africa’s struggle for economic development.
Ted Miguel, Africa: Prospects and Problems, March 12
CEGE Annual Conference
Africa: Hope for a Troubled Continent?
Andrews Conference Room, 2203 Social Science/Humanities Building
University of California, Davis
March 13, 2009
| 8:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 | The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Historical Origins of Mistrust in Africa: An Empirical Analysis Nathan Nunn (Harvard) (with Leonard Wantchekon) Discussant: Giovanni Peri (UC Davis) |
| 10:00 | Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality David N. Weil (Brown) (with Louis Putterman) Discussant: Charles I. Jones (Berkeley) |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | Microfinance in Colonial India Susan Wolcott (SUNY Binghampton) Discussant: Charles W. Calomiris (Columbia GSB) |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 | Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa Emily Oster (Chicago) Discussant: Douglas L. Miller (UC Davis) |
| 2:30 | Water Markets in Kenya (tentative) Edward Miguel (Berkeley) Discussant: Sebastian Galiani (Washington University) |
| 3:30 | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 | Manufacturing Growth: What is the Path to Prosperity in Africa? Gregory Clark Discussant: J. Bradford DeLong (Berkeley) |