Academics back Africa’s growth strategies 

Addis Ababa, 10 Nov-(ANA)-The International Growth Centre (IGC), will host their first Africa session on 13 November at the annual African Economic Conference (AEC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The conference is jointly organized by the London School of Economics (LSE), Oxford University, the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

The IGC sessions signify the first gathering of the most esteemed academics in international development with the most influential African policy-makers.

IGC’s aim is to help developing countries find their own solutions to economic growth problems and promote sustainable growth by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research.

The aim of the sessions is to develop concrete research studies carried out by IGC, to inform ground breaking policy reforms on the issues of agricultural growth strategies and macroeconomic perspectives for Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania. (ANA)

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