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.