The Con­fer­ence brings to­geth­er lead­ing econ­o­mists work­ing on pub­lic eco­nom­ics in de­vel­op­ing coun­tries. The event pro­vides an op­por­tu­ni­ty for re­searchers from dif­fer­ent uni­ver­si­ties and coun­tries to dis­cuss their work in a re­laxed at­mos­phere and to de­vel­op long-term col­lab­o­ra­tive re­la­tion­ships.