Upcoming Events

1. Introduction
Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) is a useful tool to assess the financial and economic implications of projects. A financial and economic CBA systematically quantifies the costs and benefits of a project, comparing them against the situation without the project. It provides an indication of how costs, benefits and project risks could be divided between project participants ; and between private and public sector participants.
The financial CBA takes the perspective of the (...)

The Economic Policy Research Network (EPRN) is pleased to invite you to an Extraordinary General Assembly scheduled on Monday 14/12/2020, 9AM. The meeting will be held online through MS Teams. EPRN will send a link to your email, one day before the meeting. The General Assembly is provided for by the Statutes and is supposed to convene all active members.
Agenda items are the following :
1. Narrative Activity Report showing implemented activities in 2020 ; and key planned activities for (...)

1. Background
The Economic Policy Research Network (EPRN Rwanda) is a Research and Training Institution registered with Rwanda Governance Board as a local Non-Government Organization with a mission to contribute to the evidence-based economic policymaking by providing high-quality research, building capacities and creating networking opportunities for local experts. One of the flagship activities of EPRN is to organize research conferences. So far, six conferences have been organized with (...)

The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) will convene a virtual Evidence Leaders Africa Conference on 3 - 4 November 2020. The conference is part of an ongoing initiative, the Evidence Leaders in Africa (ELA) project funded by the Hewlett Foundation. ELA seeks to expand and fortify Evidence Informed Decision Making (EIDM) leadership in Africa.
The ELA conference targets AAS Fellows, Affiliates, grantees and researchers undertaking (...)

1. Background
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have had far-reaching consequences beyond the spread of the COVID-19 disease itself and efforts to quarantine it (Johnsen and al’ 2020). What was widely viewed as a ‘Chinese problem,’ and then an ‘Italian problem’ has become an ‘everybody problem.’ In most cases, Governments imposed severe social distancing policies, work, and school closures, and the like. This inevitably has led to almost immediate economic hardship, which then leads (...)