We invite submissions of unpublished empirical analyses, survey articles, economic modelling, and policy-oriented research on a range of topics on development economics, including, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Agriculture and Rural Development: food security, productivity, and agricultural markets
  • Health and Education: access to health care and education, aging, and demographic challenges
  • Labor: skills, future of work, job security, job quality, and labor productivity
  • Gender: gaps in income and opportunities, and gender empowerment
  • Poverty, Inequality, and Welfare: income gaps, income shocks, role of social safety nets, MSMEs, intra-household dynamics, and social development
  • Climate Change and Environment: climate change mitigation and adaptation, natural capital, sustainable development, net-zero transition, carbon pricing, energy transition, and natural disasters
  • Macroeconomics and Finance: economic growth, capital market, sustainable finance, inflation, macro and financial stability, fiscal and monetary policy
  • Regional Cooperation and Economic Integration: trade, economic and financial integration, global value chains, migration, capital flows, cross-border investment
  • Infrastructure: energy, transport, water, urban development, and quality infrastructure
  • Digital Economy and Innovation: digital transformation, closing digital divides, technology and innovation, entrepreneurship, digital currencies and assets, data science, and big data
  • Domestic Resource Mobilization and Governance: public finance, debt sustainability, public management, bureaucracy, corruption, and taxation.




Interested authors shall register here to submit papers by 15 January 2024. Only completed papers with an abstract will be considered for evaluation. Submissions will be evaluated in terms of originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance in the Asian context. Decisions on paper selection will be released in March and April 2024.

Authors of accepted papers may be invited to submit their work for publication in a Mini Symposium in the Asian Development Review (ADR).

 KEY DATES

Paper submission deadline: 15 January 2024
Decision notifications: March and April 2024
Registration period: March–April 2024
Program: May 2024
Conference: 13–14 July 2024

ADVISORY BOARD

Albert F. Park (ADB)
Joseph E. Zveglich, Jr. (ADB)
Donghyun Park (ADB, ADR)
Shu Tian (ADB)
Gemma Estrada (ADB)
Tetsushi Sonobe (ADBI)
Peter Morgan (ADBI)
Daniel Suryadarma (ADBI)
John Gibson (University of Waikato, ADR)
Bonggeun Kim (SNU)
Keun Lee (SNU)
Youjin Hahn (Yonsei University)