Emerging Economies Research Showcase Award

The Emerging Economies Research Showcase Award is intended to provide mentorship and constructive feedback for development purposes to researchers from emerging economies. This track distinguishes itself from other regular tracks in several important ways.

• It is exclusively for researchers from emerging economies, including countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia (excluding Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and Taiwan).
• Each presenting paper will be matched with appropriate mentors or discussants to provide high-quality feedback, in addition to receiving traditional audience feedback.
• Preference will be given to research papers that focus on emerging economies’ issues and are at relatively advanced stages of development.
• All presentations will be in a round-table discussion format to foster interactive discussions.
• All other papers submitted to the showcase will be routed to the Emerging Economies Regular Track (see below).

We invite submissions from researchers whose primary affiliation is to universities in emerging economies. In order to qualify for matching with mentors, you must be the primary author of the study.

• Submissions should be between 8-15 pages long.
• They should comprise the overall motivation of the study, research questions, potential contributions, methodology and results (if available).
• Abstracts-only submissions will not be accepted for the showcase. Abstracts will be routed to the Emerging Economies Regular Track (see below).

We also invite academics and practitioners who would like to volunteer to review and serve as discussants for the emerging economies research papers.