Call for Application: AERC 2024-25 PhD Scholarships

Application Deadline; August 31, 2024

The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) is inviting applications for its 2024-25 PhD fellowships. The consortium’s mandate is built on the basis that sustained development in Sub-saharan Africa requires well-trained, locally based professional economists. This scholarship is open to applicants from Francophone and Anglophone sub-saharan African countries into any of the following AERC Collaborative PhD Programme (CPP) in Economic-degree awarding universities

• University of Cape town, South Africa
• University of Abomey-Calavi Benin
• University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• University of Benin Nigeria
• Felix Houphouet-Boigny University, Cote d’Ivoire
• Univeristy Cheik Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal
• University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• University of Nairobi Kenya
• Univeristy of Yaounde II, Cameroun
• University of Pretoria
• University of Witwatersrand South Africa

Eligibility

• Have applied and admitted into any of the listed CPP universities
• Have obtained at least, a second class Honors (upper division) in Economics, Agricultural economics or related field in an accredited university
• Have a master’s degree (with coursework and thesis component) in economics, Agricultural economics, or related fields in recognized university. The coursework should have covered in microeconomics, macroeconomics, quantitative methods and econometrics.
• Possession of at least 1 relevant publication in a referred journal will be an added advantage
• Evidence of engagement in economic management, research and/or training in the public sector will be an added advantage
• Female and applicants from post-conflict and fragule states are encouraged to apply

Application Details

• Application cover letter
• Curriculum Vitae
• Evidence of admission into any of the universities listed
• Certified copies of transcripts and certificates