Welcome! Bienvenidos!
Bem-vindos!
The
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association or Asociación
de Economía de América Latina y el Caribe (LACEA) is an international
association of economists with common research interests in
Latin
America. It was formed in 1992 to facilitate the exchange
of ideas among economists and policymakers. For more information
about LACEA, please review its history and
Bylaws.
We also invite you to join LACEA. To
search for current LACEA members, please use our Membership
Directory.
LACEA is generously supported by grants from the
Global
Development Network and the World Bank's Development Grant
Facility.
In addition, the annual meetings are supported by grants from
The World Bank, The Inter-American Development Bank, The Ford
Foundation,
and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Click here to
read more about LACEA's supporters.
LACEA Annual Meetings
LACEA
has been holding its own annual meetings since 1996. Please
visit our conferences page to view past programs and
papers presented.
The LACEA 2008 Annual Meeting will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 20-23, 2008. We will be publishing further information as soon as it becomes available. If you wish to contact the organizers you can do it at Luis.Braido@fgv.br
LACEA and the Global Development
Network - GDN-
 Since
1999, the Global Development Network has been awarding
annual grants to LACEA as
part of its program on Regional Research Consortia
capacity building.
LACEA has been using the funds for a variety of activities. For
a complete description of GDN related activities
and research opportunities, please visit our GDN
subpage
LACEA Sponsored Networks
LACEA sponsors four networks in the field of Capacity
Building. Each
Network -- Inequality and Poverty, Political
Economy, Regional Integration, Finance
Camps -- holds annual
meetings in different regions
of Latin
America. Please
take a look at their websites
for more information.
Economia, the journal of LACEA
Since 2000, LACEA has been publishing
the journal Economia. The
objective of
the journal is
to provide
a forum
for high-quality
research directly
applied to policy
issues
within
and among
countries of
Latin America
and the
Caribbean.
Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize
LACEA's Diaz-Alejandro Prize
is designed
to honor the memory and contribution
of Carlos
Diaz-Alejandro,
and
to encourage
high quality
research
on economic issues relevant to Latin America. |
