STEG theme workshop: Theme 3 & 4

Specific topics included but were not limited to:

• Barriers to movement of labor and capital
• Measurement and quantification of technological barriers and quantification of productivity gaps within and across sectors
• Measurement and quantification of domestic and international spatial frictions
• The role of infrastructure and other investments in market integration on economic development
• Comparative advantage in natural resources and structural transformation
• The role of openness in the transition from the rural agricultural sector to high value added urban manufacturing and service sectors
• Welfare consequences of integration of interior areas in world markets
• Distributional effects of international trade in developing countries

Paper submissions closed on Friday 14 August 2020.