This Conference comes in the wake of ongoing turmoil in credit systems and apparent global economy collapse, and is part of a continuing series of EITD Research interventions to promote dialogue on substantive financial, economic and political issues facing people in Cameroon and around the world.

A disturbing feeling of pressure as being off appears to be setting in, following the G20 summit that held in Pittsburgh, USA, that might easily revert to 'business as usual' attitudes which have not served many people well in the past, and may continue to deny them essential services, in countries in straits like Cameroon.

Without additional targeted efforts, the emerging global economic recovery may not adequately inform or spur cultivation of legitimate economic management accountability in countries such as Cameroon, where poor structural policies stemming from macroeconomic policy manipulations with little regards for microeconomic fundamentals continue to perpetuate poverty and socio-political instability.

With the need for dialogue on the substantive issues so great and urgent, and the implications far reaching, the EITD Research State Budget Issues Conference holding in Yaounde will be the biggest ever, involving as many public policy stakeholders as possible. Over 1,000 delegates are expected to attend the Conference. Many more will share in its build up and outcome.

The EITD Research State Budget Issues Conference series provides unique opportunity for all generations of public policy stakeholders to engage one another, investigate and follow-up compliance with legal guarantees of human rights and freedoms and their relations, or lack thereof, with annual finance laws or State Budgets, that is, accounts of government spending, its amounts and allocation, together with the sources of revenue to finance the spending.

Join us at the Conference to help engineer growth in the economy and ensure it serves all. The Conference programme and calls for papers welcomes theoretical and research-based contributions broadly related to themes and topics such as: Central and Local Government Services, Corruption, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Water Supply, Electricity, Poverty Eliminating Economic Growth, Effects of Movements in Food Prices, Education, Medical Care, Agriculture, Public Finances and Fiscal Rules, Aid and Debt Evaluations, Parliament and Budgets, Audit(s), Media Presentations and Public Interests, Role of the Judiciary.

Many around the world, and especially in countries such as Cameroon, appear condemned to lives of perpetual poverty, disease and early death or little hope of being born healthy! Nation states have to take their own democratic responsibilities seriously, both in procedure and substance. Every individual, organization or business has to understand this, and make it clear to political authorities at home and abroad, to ensure peace, stability and prosperity for all.