The overall theme of the conference is "Framing the future through the Sustainable Development Goals" with subthemes on: - Technology, wages and growth - The changing architecture of trade policies - Energy transformation—winners and losers - Challenges to achieving the sustainable development...

Africa Finance and Economic Association (AFEA) will sponsor two sessions and another session together with National Economic Association (NEA) at the January 2018 ASSA Meetings in Philadelphia devoted to all aspects of economic development or economic growth concerns of African economies.

The overall theme of the conference is "Global Economic Analysis in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities" with subthemes on: - Sustainable Development, - Climate change policies and adaptation, - Whither regionalism in the absence of a global trade agreement? - Agricultural innovation,...

Both members and non-members are invited to submit papers which deal with all aspects of economic development of African economies and/or economic growth concerns of Africans in the diaspora to this meeting.