NBER's Africa Project confers again.

• Position: Conferences - Brief article - Discussion

The NBER Africa Project, organized by Research Associates Sebastian Edwards of the University of California, Los Angeles, Simon Johnson of MIT, and David Weil of Brown University brought together academic economists and East African policymakers in Zanzibar on December 18-19, 2012 for a policy-oriented discussion on "Meeting the Next Macroeconomic Challenges in Africa." This conference was sponsored in collaboration with the Bank of Tanzania. The following topics were discussed:

* Robert Lawrence, Harvard University and NBER, "Regional Integration: What Does Europe Teach Us?"

* Stephen O'Connell, Swarthmore College, "Fiscal Foundations of Monetary Union in East Africa"

* Christopher Adam, Oxford University, "East African Transport Costs in the Short-run and the Long-run"

* S. Kal Wajid, IMF, "Financial...