Issues and Recommendations

Economics is currently undergoing a soul searching with respect to its gender and racial imbalances. There are many new initiatives underway in North America and Western Europe to address these problems. A missing component of this discussion on diversity is the geographic one – the relative scarcity of voices from the rest of the world in what should be a global discipline. As the chart below shows, researchers outside the U.S. and Europe are not only severely under-represented in top economics journals, their presence is considerably smaller than the weight of their countries and regions in the world economy.

IEA Collaboration with Remote Student Exchange

The Remote Student Exchange (RSE) initiative and the International Economic Association (IEA) are pleased to invite university professors and instructors to open their existing courses in the fall semester 2021 to remote guest students from low- and middle- income countries.

IEA Collaboration with GAIN

The IEA is pleased to announce its partnership with the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) to support mentorship activities to increase the number of African students that apply to graduate programs in economics and to reduce the informational and financial costs in the application process.