The DIAL laboratory - Paris-Dauphine University and the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) organized their fifth joint international conference on international and development economics. The conference was held in Paris, and provided a forum to discuss innovative theoretical and empirical research in international and development economics.

Joël Cariolle, researcher at Ferdi, was selected to present his paper "Telecommunications Submarine Cable deployment and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa".