INTERPRETATION / TRANSLATION & CONFERENCE SERVICES

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As the Institute is becoming a major conference venue, this unit encompasses one of the most important service areas in IDEP.

National, subregional and regional organizations and institutions frequently use the facilities available, i.e. a well-equipped conference room, efficient interpretation/translation services and secretarial support.

A distinguishing feature of IDEP is that it is a bilingual institution, with English and French as the languages of all its operations. It has a permanent staff and facilities for simultaneous interpretation and translation; lectures, seminars and all other activities are conducted in both languages. It is the only regional institution of its kind, able to transcend the language barrier in the delivery of its services and serve all countries of the continent.

WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

Cutting across all of these activities are a series of workshops, seminars and conferences organized by IDEP, on its own or in conjunction with other African and non-African institutions and organizations. A variety of topics related to African development concerns and related global political economic issues are covered.

Increasingly, because of its long experience, its improved physical and technological capacity, its reservoir of information on African development issues, and the large pool of expertise at its disposal, the Institute is becoming a major conference venue on the Continent.

A- INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS ORGANIZED AT OR BY IDEP

1 Workshop on Africa's Growth and Development, 25-26 April 2005 Cairo;

2 First Higher Education Methodological Workshop, 29-30 September 2005, Dakar, Senegal;

3 Second Higher Education Methodological Workshop, 29-30 June 2006, Dakar, Senegal;

4 International Conference on "NEPAD and Future of Policy Making in Africa", 10-12, November 2005, Dakar, Senegal;

5 11th African Econometric Society (AES) Annual Meeting, 5-7 July 2006, Dakar, Senegal. 

B- PRESENTATIONS AT SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, AND CONFERENCES

1. October 2003, "Should Africa's External Debt be Re-Valuated?", Workshop on Africa's External Debt, organized by ECA and the Government of the Republic of Senegal, 17- 18 November 2003, Dakar. By Diery Seck;

2. June 2004, "A Conceptual Framework for NEPAD", Annual Meeting of the African Econometric Society, 30 June - 2 July 2004, Cape Town, South Africa. By Diery Seck;

3. January 2005, "A Conceptual Framework for NEPAD", Annual Meeting of the African Finance and Economic Association, 7-9 January 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA. By Diery Seck;

4. April 2005 "An Analytical Framework for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)". Paper Presented at Workshop on "Africa's Growth Project", Cairo, 25-26 April 2005. By Diery Seck;

5. April, 2005, "An Economic Theory of Civil War in Africa". Paper Presented at Workshop on "Africa's Growth Project", Cairo, 25-26 April 2005. By Diery Seck;

6. "Modelling Total Factor Productivity in African Economies". Paper submitted to the 10th Annual Conference on Econometric Modelling in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 6-8 July, 2005. By Dipo Busari, Aloysius Amin, and Tharcisse Ntilivamunda;

7. September 2005, "The Sources of Growth with Total factor Productivity in Africa's Economic Growth''. Paper Presented at the 14th World Congress of The International Economic Association (IEA), Marrakech, Morocco, 29 August - 2 September 2005. By Aloysius Amin, Dipo Busari and T. Ntilivamunda;

8. November 2005, "A Regional Conceptual Framework for NEPAD" Paper presented at the Workshop on "NEPAD and The Future of Economic Policy in Africa," UNIDEP, Dakar, Senegal, 9-11 November 2005. By Diery Seck;

9. January 2006, "An Economic Theory of Civil War in Africa", Annual Meeting of the African Finance and Economic Association, January 6-8 2006, Boston, MA, USA. By Diery Seck;

10. July 2006, "On the Design of a New Mechanism for Africa's External Debt", Annual Meeting of the African Econometric Society, 5-7 July 2006, Dakar, Senegal. By Diery Seck;

11. July 2006, "Are Econometric Models Identified?" 11th Annual Meeting of the African Econometric Society, 5-7 July 2006, Dakar, Senegal. By Aloysius Amin;

12. July 2006, "Macroeconomic Stability or Good Institutions of Governance: What is Africa Getting Wrong?" 11th Annual Meeting of the African Econometric Society, 5-7 July 2006, Dakar, Senegal. By Dipo Busari