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.

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.

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: - The theory of employment and unemployment - Possibilities and limitations of monetary and fiscal policy - Labour market institutions, active labour market policies, and decent jobs - Industrial policy, productivity and...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: - Global imbalances after the crisis - High debt of firms, governments and households and economic dynamics - Macroeconomic imbalances and public debt in the euro area - Macroeconomic and distributional implications of fiscal...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: - Global imbalances after the crisis - High debt of firms, governments and households and economic dynamics - Macroeconomic imbalances and public debt in the euro area - Macroeconomic and distributional implications of fiscal...