Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

While foreign trade flows have always been seen as a major determinant of growth, recently globalisation and enhanced European integration (including EMU) have impacted on the size and direction of international flows, not only of goods but also of services, capital and labour. This conference...