Georgetown to host the 8th Annual Washington Area Development Economics Symposium (WADES)

The Washington Area Development Economics Symposium (WADES) is an annual research conference which highlights academic work from researchers at leading economics institutions in development economics in the Washington DC area. WADES is organized by a rotating group of faculty members from Georgetown University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, and University of Virginia.  This year, the conference is organized by Georgetown’s Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (gui2de). 

Friday, May 1, 2020
Georgetown University 
Healey Family Student Center 
Social Room
Washington, D.C. 20057

The 2020 conference agenda is forthcoming. You can find the schedule of last year’s conference here.