2024 Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev)

The Stanford King Center on Global Development hosted the 2024 Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev)—the largest West Coast conference on Development Economics, and one of the leading Development Economics events in the United States. The conference brought together over 200 researchers from all over the world to present and discuss work that enhances our understanding of economic development, advances theoretical and empirical methods, and improves development interventions and policy. The conference took place on Saturday, March 9, 2024, in-person only, on Stanford’s campus.

The keynote talk, "Designing Social Protection Policies: Lessons from Indonesia", was delivered by Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy School.

A big thank you to our review committee: Arun Chandrasekhar, Marcel Fafchamps, Grant Miller, Melanie Morten, Jessica Leino, Binta Zahra Diop, Ashrakat Elshehawy, Eleanor Wiseman, Adrian Blattner, Akhila Jayashree Kovvuri, Lily Liu, Joao Francisco Pugliese, and Anirudh Sankar.