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Mozambique’s Maputo-based Institute of Social and Economic Studies (IESE) is celebrating its 10th anniversary today with a conference analysing “The challenges of social and economic research in times of crisis”.
Eighty-four papers, more than half by foreign academics, will be presented over the next three days, the organisation has announced.
The IESE is an independent, non-profit organisation that brings together dozens of researchers and has a regular presence in the country’s media and public initiatives through its work on social and economic development in Mozambique and Southern Africa.
“What contributions have we made to the social sciences and knowledge, as well as to political, economic and social debates and social struggles?” the organisation conference presentation document asks.
Ten years after IESE was created, “the world is witnessing a multidimensional and international crisis”, but with “regional and national manifestations and particularities”, the outline paper states.
The country’s financial crisis, for example, reflects the impact of the global oscillation of natural resource prices and the problem of globally negotiated foreign debt.
The keynote speaker will be Michel Cahen, a researcher at Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, and also at the “Les Afriques Dans le Monde” research centre in Bordeaux.
Access the full programme here.
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