Major Theme: The Way Forward - Austerity or Stimulus The Conference will seek to explore the apparent contradictions of the policy stances that are now emerging amidst the global unemployment crisis. More specific themes: - Reflections on the global financial crisis? Reform agendas etc. - Any...

Topics of the 2011 meeting include: 1) Public debt and the process of fiscal rebalancing: - Sustainability considerations of public debt - Debt consolidation in times of recessions 2) Fiscal Policy in a Globalized World - Relation of fiscal debt and external debt - The role of foreign currency...