OUR VISION
“To inspire youth and transform economics education and to provide a platform that enables the conceptualisation of practical solutions to challenges relating to education, the economy and other socioeconomic problems of the community through a process of free and imaginative thinking, discussion and debate amongst individuals, associations, institutions and bodies that are concerned about such problems and are willing to participate in the efforts to find solutions to such problems through an exchange of views in the public or research domain.”
OUR MISSION
- To create leaders in Economics who lead the community in eradicating economic and financial illiteracy, a condition that deprives citizens of their dignity and independence and the right to stake a justified claim on the nation’s economic prosperity.
- To create an active and vibrant think-tank composed of practising economists and academicians on issues of local, national and global importance.
- To highlight the relevance and importance of economics and economists in society and to inculcate a sense of pride amongst students, economists, teachers, academics and practitioners of economics.
- To transform economics education through economics festivals, curriculum reviews, teacher training and empowerment, public lectures, industry-academia interaction, economics education research and establishing/enhancing the research culture in educational institutions.
- To enhance the employability of economics students.
- To build awareness of educational and career opportunities for students of economics and related social sciences and to inspire youth, especially girls, to dream big and aim for excellence while seeking out educational and career opportunities.
- To draw attention to the interdisciplinary nature of economics and interdisciplinary educational and career opportunities and to promote interdisciplinary and pluralistic discourse on economics.