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Leveraging Multipolarity: Assessing Economic Options for Africa

9th-11th October 2024 | African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Welcome to the 2024 African Monetary and Economic Sovereignty Conference

Convened by the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) and the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA)

The third Edition of the African Monetary and Economic Sovereignty Conference

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the New International Economic Order (NIEO). Alongside multiple debt, development, climate, and migration crises and a resurgence of large-scale wars and genocidal violence, there is a decline of Western hegemony, which the challenge posed by the emergence of the BRICS + makes visible. Although the United States, Western Europe, and Japan still dominate the Bretton Woods Institutions, whose legitimacy deficit is growing, they no longer have the global economic, industrial, and financial clout of yesteryear. This trend towards multipolarity, a rebalancing of international relations seems irreversible. The key question is to know what new or alternative options this multipolarity can offer countries of the South, Africa in particular. What economic opportunities could peripheral countries foresee in a world where the West no longer has the last word

The Third Edition of the African Monetary and Economic Sovereignty Conference, convened by the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) and the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA), aims to explore the economic opportunities open to the continent in the multipolar world that is taking shape, based on the lessons of history – past successes and failures – but also of a present fraught with multiple crises and diverse emergencies for which coordinated and rapid action is required.

Among the topics to be discussed are:

  • Addressing the current debt, development and climate crisis.
  • Domestic resource mobilization and illicit financial flows.
  • Lessons from the New International Economic Order: documenting successful and less successful experiences of delinking.
  • The BRICS + project: opportunities and risks for Africa.
  • Understanding the revival of industrial policy in Northern countries: prospects for Africa.
  • How to capitalize on the resurgence of pan-Africanist sentiment on the continent and in its diasporas.

Conference proceedings will be live-streamed, and a link will be circulated closer to the Conference date.

Concept Note - English
Note Conceptuelle - Français

Concept Note – English

Note Conceptuelle – Français

Speakers

  • Hamadziripi Tamukamoyo

    Programme Co-Director at the Institute for Economic Justice 

  • Lumumba Di-Aping

    Ambassador and Deputy Head of the Sudan Mission to the United Nations

  • Guillaume Long

    Politician, Historian, and Expert on Latin American Foreign Policy and Multilateral Initiatives

  • Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei

    Head of Programmes at the Third World Network-Africa, Member of the Working Group of Post-Colonialisms Today

  • Martin Abeles

    Director of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)´s Office in Buenos Aires

  • Farwa Sial

    Research Associate with the Department of Economics at SOAS University of London

  • Zinabu Samaro Rekiso

    Economist, UNDCO/ UN Resident Coordinator’s Office – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Aby L. Sène

    Assistant Professor, Specialist in Parks and Conservation Area Management, focusing on equitable approaches to public land management in the US and Africa

  • David Adler

    Political Economist & co-general Coordinator of Progressive International

  • Ibrahima Aidara

    Founder of the Public Policy Institute for West Africa, previously deputy regional director of Open Society–Africa & country economist at UNDP Senegal

  • Andres Arauz

    Senior research fellow and expert in finance and macroeconomics, with government experience in Ecuador and international negotiations

  • Yan Liang

    Professor at Willamette University, specialist in Post Keynesian-Institutionalist approach to international trade and finance, financial macroeconomics, and economic development (with a regional focus on China)

  • Jemima Pierre

    Professor of Global Race at the Institute of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia, Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg

  • Emilia Reyes

    Programme Director of Policies and Budgets for Equality and Sustainable Development, at the feminist Mexican organization Gender Equity: Citizenship, Work and Family

  • Hippolyte Fofack

    Research Economist, leading the Macroeconomic and Growth Program at the World Bank Institute, founder of the Nelson Mandela Institution

  • Alemayehu Geda

    Professor of Macroeconomics and International Economics, Department of Economics, Addis Ababa University

  • agostina-constantino

    Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina & a teacher at UNS

  • Adeyemi Dipeolu

    Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters in the Office of the Vice‐President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

  • Mayada Hassanain

    Researcher within the Feminist Economics project at the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ)

  • Kai Koddenbrock

    Professor of political economy at Bard College Berlin

  • Ndongo Samba Sylla

    IDEAs

  • Jomo Kwame Sundaram

    Senior Adviser, Khazanah Research Institute, Fellow, Academy of Science, Malaysia, and Emeritus Professor, University of Malaya

  • Souad Aden-Osman

    Executive Director of the Secretariat for the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA)

  • Chérif Salif Sy

    Political economist, teacher, researcher and active in the non-political society. Coordinator of the Third World Forum (TWF) created by Professor Samir Amin.

  • Fadhel Kaboub

    President, the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of Economics, Denison University

  • Howard Stein

    Development Economist, Professor, The University of Michigan

  • Dzodzi Tsikata

    Professor of Development Sociology, Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS), the University of Ghana

  • Peter James Hudson

    Associate Professor, University of California Los Angeles

  • Ingrid Kvangraven

    Lecturer, Department of International Development at King’s College, London

  • Jason Hickel

    Economic anthropologist, Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and LSE, and Professor, University of Barcelona

  • Ali Zafar

    Global development Economist and Author, UNDP

  • Horman Chitonge

    Researcher, Professor, Head of the African Studies Section, University of Cape Town

  • Charles A. Abugre

    Ghanaian development economist, researcher, social activist. Executive Director, IDEAs

  • C.P. Chandrasekhar

    Senior Research Fellow, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst