Themes

Themes and Sub-Themes

We welcome submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Public Economics and Fiscal Policy

  • Taxation, public expenditure and fiscal federalism
  • Public debt, deficits and macroeconomic stability
  • Welfare programs, social protection and redistribution
  • Corruption, governance and institutional quality
  • Shadow economy, tax evasion and enforcement

Artificial Intelligence, Technology and the Economy

  • AI and automation: labour market implications in developing countries
  • Machine learning applications in economic analysis and forecasting
  • Digital public goods, platforms and the gig economy
  • Data-driven approaches to poverty measurement and targeting
  • AI in financial markets, regulation and fintech

Development Economics and Policy

  • Trade, migration and inequality in developing economies
  • Informality, labour markets and structural transformation
  • Gender, education and human capital formation
  • Environmental policy, climate change and sustainability
  • Health, public service delivery and development outcomes

Interdisciplinary and Cross-cutting Issues

  • AI governance, ethics and public policy frameworks
  • Geopolitics, conflict and economic development
  • Multidimensional poverty and computational methods
  • Regional disparities, urbanization and spatial economics
  • Economics of Intelligent Transportation Systems
Sub-themes

Indicative Sub-themes

  • Public finance, taxation, and fiscal policy
  • AI-driven economic forecasting
  • Machine learning for policy evaluation
  • Trade, globalisation, and development
  • Labour economics and the future of work
  • Health economics and AI in healthcare
  • NLP and text-as-data in economic research
  • Algorithmic governance and digital public goods
  • Climate economics and sustainability
  • Financial inclusion and fintech
  • Inequality, poverty measurement, and welfare
  • Causal inference and computational methods