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African Economic Research Consortium ( AERC ) is pleased to share the success of its Biannual Plenary and Research Workshop<\/a>\u00a0held in Cape Town, South Africa, 2-6 June 2019.<\/p>\nThe Biannual is unique – combining learning-by-doing research, peer review, mentoring and networking to build and strengthen the capacity of early career African researchers. The workshop brought together many economists from around the African continent and globally fulfilling one of our major mandates \u2013 to strengthen local capacity for conducting independent, rigorous inquiry into problems facing the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n
The 5<\/strong>0th Plenary Session Over 200 researchers, academics, policy makers, non-state actors and economists discussed the issue of growing with debt in African economies and the ramifications for development regionally and globally.<\/p>\n In case you missed the biannual plenary, the recordings can be found in the following links: Three days of five concurrent sessions ran from 3-5 June 2019, with 6 June 2019 dedicated to technical sessions, where individual researchers interacted with resource persons , discussed their presentation and received feedback on improving the quality of their research.<\/p>\n The five concurrent sessions of the Biannual started on Monday, 3 June 2019 and featured nearly 90 presentations of research proposals, work in progress documents, final reports and PhD thesis post-field reports.<\/p>\n The reports covered a wide range of topics that fit into the five focal areas of AERC\u2019s thematic research programme:<\/p>\n The Biannual attracts over 200 researchers, academics, policy makers and other economists who participate in our Research and Training Programmes. It provides a forum for participants to meet within a worldwide network of professionals to address issues relevant for Africa\u2019s economic development. They also provide an opportunity for monitoring the progress and quality of the various research projects sponsored by AERC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) is pleased to announce the next Biannual Research Workshop to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, 2-6 June 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[16,98,99,82,100,53,103],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-africa","tag-debt","tag-development","tag-economics","tag-policy","tag-research","tag-synopsis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15723,"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/15723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/demo.oxygenehosting.com\/aerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe first day of the workshop, Sunday 2 June 2019,\u00a0 featured the 50th Plenary Session on Growing with Debt in African Economic Economies: Options, Challenge and Pitfalls<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nPart 1: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aercafrica\/videos\/715150045580798\/<\/a>
\nPart 2: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aercafrica\/videos\/450459632386336\/<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/aercafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Group-A-2-Biannual.jpg\")
The Concurrent Sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n