Asian Economic Development Conference 2024

• Agriculture and Rural Development: food security, productivity, and agricultural markets
• Health and Education: access to health care and education, aging, and demographic challenges
• Labor: skills, future of work, job security, job quality, and labor productivity
• Gender: gaps in income and opportunities, and gender empowerment
• Poverty, Inequality, and Welfare: income gaps, income shocks, role of social safety nets, MSMEs, intra-household dynamics, and social development
• Climate Change and Environment: climate change mitigation and adaptation, natural capital, sustainable development, net-zero transition, carbon pricing, energy transition, and natural disasters
• Macroeconomics and Finance: economic growth, capital market, sustainable finance, inflation, macro and financial stability, fiscal and monetary policy
• Regional Cooperation and Economic Integration: trade, economic and financial integration, global value chains, migration, capital flows, cross-border investment
• Infrastructure: energy, transport, water, urban development, and quality infrastructure
• Digital Economy and Innovation: digital transformation, closing digital divides, technology and innovation, entrepreneurship, digital currencies and assets, data science, and big data
• Domestic Resource Mobilization and Governance: public finance, debt sustainability, public management, bureaucracy, corruption, and taxation.

Interested authors shall register here to submit papers by 15 January 2024. Only completed papers with an abstract will be considered for evaluation. Submissions will be evaluated in terms of originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance in the Asian context. Decisions on paper selection will be released in March and April 2024.Authors of accepted papers may be invited to submit their work for publication in a Mini Symposium in the Asian Development Review (ADR). 

KEY DATES

Paper submission deadline: 15 January 2024

Conference: 13–14 July 2024

ADVISORY BOARD

Albert F. Park (ADB)