African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) is GDN's regional network partner for Sub-Saharan Africa. AERC aims to strengthen local capacity for economic policy research in Sub-Saharan Africa. The AERC's activities are managed by a Secretariat based in Nairobi, Kenya. AERC also works with GDN in managing and producing the Africa regional window on the GDN website. AERC's activities include: Research: AERC provides research grants to conduct research on a limited number of pertinent themes, such as poverty, income distribution and labour markets.