Jobs and Development Conference 2024: Addressing Labor Market Challenges in Developing Economies

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The American University in Cairo
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Overview and Description

The Jobs and Development Conference 2024 will be hosted by J-PAL MENA at AUC, Cairo, Egypt. It is organized in collaboration with the World Bank, the International Labor Organization (ILO), UNU-WIDER, the Institute for Structural Research (IBS, Poland), the Development Policy Research Unit at University of Cape Town (DPRU, South Africa), and the HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS, Hong Kong).

Additionally, the participation of a number of African scholars this year is being funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. These organizations combine expertise and experience in labor market dynamics and economic policy.

This is the seventh edition of the Jobs and Development Conference , which will focus on addressing key issues such as job creation, skills development, and inclusive economic policies. The conference gathers researchers, policymakers, and experts to discuss job challenges in low- and middle-income countries. It will include keynote speeches, panel discussions, and over 50 paper presentations focusing on youth employment, gender, labor markets, and technological change to advance global knowledge on jobs and development policies.

Speakers

Executive Director of J-PAL MENA 

Chairman of the board of the MENA Health Policy Forum

Deputy Program Coordinator of the "Gender, Growth and Labor Markets in Low Income Countries" (G²LM|LIC) program at IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) in Bonn, Germany

Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, an IZA Research Fellow and J-PAL Affiliate

Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh

Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Research Professor Emeritus Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research University of Michigan 

Advisor and Lead Economist in the World Bank's Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice

Practice Manager of the Global Macroeconomics and Debt unit in the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment (MTI) Global Practice at World Bank

Professor of Economics Emeritus at Cornell University

Director of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town

Director of UNU-WIDER

Deputy Director for Research at ILO

Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Exeter

Assistant professor at the department of Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Regional Director for Prosperity in the Middle East and North Africa region at World Bank

Chief Research Officer in the Southern Africa Labor and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town

President of the Board at the Institute for Structural Research (IBS), Warsaw, Poland

Freeman Chair in International Economic Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota

Director of the International Labor Organization's Research Department

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