Dear colleagues and friends,
The Faculty of Management and Law at the University of Limpopo, South Africa, call upon interests to submit papers for the International Conference
on Development Finance & Economic Transformation (ICDF & ET. The conference will be held from 27 to 29 October 2013 at Hans Merensky Hotel & Spa,
Phalaborwa.
The developing world is beset by teething financial and economic challenges that impair societal transformation and development. In Africa, for example,
innumerable funding and economic initiatives were conceived and implemented over many years with negligible transformation and development to the extent
that some who tried to assist were discouraged. Whereas Africa has continued to enjoy an average annual economic growth rate of about 5% in recent years,
the global economic and Eurozone debt crises are destined to catch-up with most countries in the continent. Simultaneously, the governance, or lack thereof,
of the international economics & politics has become increasingly complex as China and the BRICS, in particular, strive to out-compete the traditional economic
powers such as Japan, USA and the EU, which are the traditional sources of development finance and reform policy prescriptions. It is evident that development
finance, with its conditionalities has borne both costs and benefits, whilst the hegemonic form of economic transformation has created policy orphans in most
developing countries.
The question to ask, as the global economic crises appear to have planted recurrent recession in the traditional sources of development funding and policy
prescriptions, is: whither Africa's development finance and economic transformation? This vexed question remains relevant to all developing countries.
It is in this context and in pursuit of the University of Limpopo Motto of "Finding Solutions for Africa", that the Faculty of Management & Law at the University of
Limpopo, South Africa, invites scholars, practitioners, students, policy makers and politicians to submit abstracts and papers for the First International Conference
where this vexed and seemingly perennial question would be addressed from multiple-disciplinary perspectives. Papers may be theoretical, empirical or both; and,
submissions in one or more of the following subthemes would be considered:
• The political-economy of development finance and economic transformation
• Governance, or lack thereof, of the international economics and politics: implications for developing countries development financing
• Global financial crises and the implications for development finance for developing countries
• Models and international experiences on sustainable development financing
• Dynamics of multilateral development aid in developing countries
• Foreign development finance: an investment engine of or bottomless-pit for economic
transformation and development for developing countries?
• Regionalism and development financing for developing countries
• Natural capital, environmental finance and development in developing countries
• Domestication of the BRICS integrative spin-offs
• Gender, rurality and socio-economic transformational challenges in developing countries
• Africa-China relations for development finance and economic transformation?
• Global financial crises and recurrence of economic recessions in the USA and the EU: whereto from here?
Important Dates to Remember
Abstract Submission: May 10, 2013
Decisions on Abstracts & Circulation of Evaluation Results (including Letters of Acceptance of Abstracts): June 10, 2013.
Submission of the Papers (to be considered for publication in the Conference Proceeding): July 31, 2013.
Circulation of Results of the Review of Full Papers September: 05, 2013.
Author Revisions & Resubmissions of Papers September: 21, 2013.
Compilation & Reproduction of Conference Proceedings: October 04, 2013.
Please address all scientific enquiries to Professor Johannes Tsheola, and abstracts and paper submissions to Ms Phophi at icdfet2013@ul.ac.za
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