The 2012 CSAE Conference begins tomorrow at St. Catherine’s College, here in Oxford. The conference is probably the largest annual gathering of economists working on Africa.

There will be an impressive array of speakers at the conference, including Stefan Dercon, Jakob Svensson, Martin Ravallion and Shanta Devarajan. All plenary sessions will be broadcast live on the CSAE website (look for a link here starting tomorrow), as well as a the following paper sessions:

• Agriculture: Macro and Micro approaches
• Fragile states: Causes, costs, and responses
• Firms 1: Labour and informal enterprises
• Education 5
• Poverty 4: Multidimensional poverty

The full schedule of talks and papers being presented is here. If you’ll be attending the conference and happen to be a fervent tweeter, we’ll be using the hash tag #CSAE2012.