Conference Theme: Growth Challenges, Development, Global Financial Meltdown and Public Policy: Emerging Issues in Developed and Developing Economies [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] The web site is no longer available.

This workshop will take stock of what we know and what we need to know about cities and development; to gather experiences of urbanization and urban growth from across the world; and to offer policy options for an inexorably urbanizing world.

Papers on any topics related to African economic development, including in a comparative context, are welcome. This conference will largely consist of parallel sessions, with two plenary sessions.