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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Pre-Conference on Economic Research on African Development Successes

 

Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil, Organizers

 

February 27-28, 2009

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PARTICIPANT LIST

 

Jenny Aker

Center for Global Development

Negar Akhavi

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Marcella Alsan

Harvard University

Nava Ashraf

Harvard University and NBER

Oliver Babson

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Andrew Berg

International Monetary Fund

Steven Block

Tufts University

Manuel Cabral

Universidade do Minho

Diego Comin

Harvard University and NBER

Lisa Cook

Michigan State University

Jorge Braga de Macedo

Universidade Nova de Lisboa and NBER

Taryn Dinkelman

Princeton University

Sebastian Edwards

UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Guenther Fink

Harvard University

Jeffrey Frankel

Harvard University and NBER

Rachel Gisselquist

Harvard University

Rachel Glennerster

MIT

Douglas Gollin

Williams College

Mary Hallward-Driemeier

World Bank

Simon Johnson

MIT and NBER

Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa

National Planning Authority, Uganda

Michael Klein

Tufts University and NBER

Edward Kutsoati

Tufts University

Geoff Lamb

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Rafael La Porta

Dartmouth College and NBER

Margaret McMillan

Tufts University and NBER

Edward Miguel

UC, Berkeley and NBER

Nathan Nunn

Harvard University and NBER

Yaw Nyarko

New York University

Stephen O'Connell

Swarthmore College

James Poterba

MIT and NBER

Franklyn Prendergast

Mayo Clinic

Lant Pritchett

Harvard University

Nancy Qian

Brown University

Steven Radelet

Center for Global Development

Richard Rogerson

Arizona State University and NBER

Antoinette Sayeh

International Monetary Fund

Andrei Shleifer

Harvard University and NBER

Sara Sievers

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Rebecca Thornton

University of Michigan

David Weil

Brown University and NBER

Eric Werker

Harvard University

Katherine Whiteside Casey

Brown University

Deric Zanera

National Statistical Office, Malawi