DRI Annual Conference 2015: Beyond The Nation State

NYU Development Research Institute's 2015 Annual Conference, "Beyond the Nation State: How traders, migrants and ethnic networks are driving economic growth in the developing world" 

Highlights and commentary from DRI's 2015 Annual Conference, Beyond the Nation State.

Ariell Reshef (University of Virginia) speaking at DRI's 2015 Annual Conference: Beyond the Nation State on his paper "The Surprising Size and Instability of Hyper-Specialization in Exports" co-written with Diego Daruich, and William Easterly (New York University).

Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School, London) speaking at DRI's 2015 Annual Conference: Beyond the Nation State on his paper "Foreign Bank Entry and Entrepreneurship" co-written with Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) and Charles W. Calomiris (Columbia Business School).

Yaw Nyarko (New York University) speaking at DRI's 2015 Annual Conference: Beyond the Nation State on his paper "Cross-border Technology Flows for Success: The African Mobile Revolution".

Michael Clemens (Center for Global Development) speaking at DRI's 2015 Annual Conference: Beyond the Nation State on his paper "The Economic Case for Migration Restrictions", co-written with Lant Pritchett (Harvard Kennedy School). 

Hui Kian Kwee (University of Toronto) speaking at DRI's 2015 Annual Conference: Beyond the Nation State on her paper "Socio-Religious Institutions and Economic Migration: Case Study of the Bai Clansmen from Anxi, Fujian in Southeast Asia, c.1880-present"

Cheikh Anta Babou (University of Pennsylvania) speaking at DRI's 2015 Annual Conference: Beyond the Nation State on his paper "The Murid Ethic and the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: Faith, Business and Mobility among Murid Immigrants in Gabon".

Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University) speaking at DRI's 2015 Annual Conference on his paper "The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub­-Saharan Africa" co-authored with Louis Putterman and David N. Weil (Brown University).

Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University) speaking at DRI's 2015 Annual Conference: Beyond the Nation State on his paper "Education and Long-term Social Mobility in Benin".