World Economic Forum on Africa 2010

A hat tip to Mark Seccombe for spotting this excellent resource. The World Economic Forum on Africa 2010 has a huge range of speakers and topics which would be great for development sections of the course and particularly those more advanced pupils looking to do international or development economics at university. Webcasts of sessions can be found here

Unit 4 Macro: African Human Development Report 2012 [15 May 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: African Aid - Helpful or Harmful? [22 Apr 2012]
Beyond the Bike - Gold Digging in Sudan [28 Mar 2012]
Beyond the Bike - Monetary Policy in Africa [28 Mar 2012]
Beyond the Bike - The Importance of Remittances [15 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Development Issues: The Baby Boom in Zambia [29 Dec 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Prospects for the African Economy [21 Dec 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Mobile Phones and African Economic Growth [18 Dec 2011]
Africa’s Hopeful Economies [4 Dec 2011]
Can the “invisible hand” solve Africa’s poverty? [13 Oct 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: When China Met Africa [1 Oct 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Exercise on National income [27 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Savings and Banking to enhance Development [16 Aug 2011]
Development Economics - Emerging Africa [28 Jun 2011]
Poor Economics - Esther Duflo at the LSE [3 Jun 2011]
China and Africa - Resources on their relationship [14 Feb 2011]
Tuesday Talks! African development [8 Feb 2011]
The Chinese are coming! [5 Feb 2011]
Fantastic Interactive Development Stats Website! [11 Jan 2011]
RES Essay Competition: Does Aid Hinder Development? [12 Apr 2010]
Inter-related economic risk map [18 Jan 2010]
Africa Can - a new development blog [31 Dec 2009]
Broadband and economic development [24 Oct 2009]
World Economic Forum drops UK a place in competitiveness rankings [9 Sep 2009]

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