IDEAs is organising a work shop on 'Liberalisation, Macroeconomic Policy and development options in Asia' in collaboration with the MAIDS program, run by the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok from the 25th Sept to 1st Oct, 2004, to be held In Bangkok and Manila.

The workshop is an intensive program covering theoretical and policy issues in the current international context. The aim of the workshop is to present critiques of existing theories as well to offer alternative analyses of current economic trends. It will be organized around the following broad themes:

• Macroeconomic Policies of Industrial and Developing countries.
• Recent Pattern of Trade and Financial Flows.
• Industrial Policy, FDI, Deflation and Emerging Crises in Asia, in the Context of Liberalisation.

The total working time of the workshop is 24 hours over four working days from the 25th of Sept to 29th Sept, 2004. The sessions will be in lecture format of three hours each, twice a day. The lecture series will conclude with an open panel discussion.

The instructors and their topic for the lectures are the following.

• Jomo K.S.-Introduction to Workshop, and Financial Flows, Macro Policy and
  The Role of Capital Controls
• Prabhat Patnaik – Finance, Deflation and Developing Countries
• Korkut Boratav – Recent Patterns of Global Trade and Financial Flows
• Alex Izurieta – Macroeconomic Policies of Industrial Countries
• Erinc Yeldan – Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
• C.P. Chandrasekhar – Industrial Policy, FDI and Privatisation
• Madhura Swaminathan – Liberalisation, Agricultural Growth and Food Security
• Joseph Lim – External Debt Issues