OPENING SESSION: Nobel Symposium in Economic Sciences

Members of the public are invited to join the Opening Session of the Nobel Symposium in Economic Sciences. Themed “Micro-development research in the last 20years: What have we learned?”, thiswill be the third symposium in the Nobel in Africaseries at STIAS. Nobel in Africa is a STIAS Initiative in partnership with Stellenbosch University, under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with funding from the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Programme:

09:00 - Opening remarks: • STIAS Director, Edward K. Kirumira • Stellenbosch University Vice Chancellor, Wim de Villiers • Swedish Ambassador to South Africa, Håkan Juholt • Symposium Convenors: Jakob Svensson, Stockholm University and Rulof Burger, Stellenbosch University 09:30 - Poverty alleviation/Social protection (Chair: Ian Goldin, University of Oxford) • Speaker: Oriana Bandiera, The London School of Economics and Political Science • Respondent: Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Respondent: Christopher Udry, Northwestern University 11:00 - Refreshments Members of the media are requested to liaise with: Noloyiso Mtembu at noloyisom@sun.ac.za or 021 808 2584.