• The Association conducts Annual Conferences where research papers on the Ethiopian Economy are presented. The proceedings of the Conferences are published annually. The themes of the ten conferences held to-date are:
• 1) The Ethiopian Economy: Structure, Problems and Policy Issues, 2) Problems of Adjustment, 3) Problems and Prospects of Private Sector Development, 4) Ethiopian Agriculture: Problems of Transformation, 5) Poverty and Poverty Alleviation, 6) Small-scale Enterprise Development in Ethiopia, 7) Human Resource Development in Ethiopia, 8) The Ethiopian Economy: Performance and Evaluation, 9) Institutions, Resources and Development in Ethiopia, 10) Explaining Economic Growth and Development in Ethiopia.

• The Association organizes regular bi- monthly Round Table Discussions (RTDs) on which timely and relevant economic issues are discussed. So far twenty-three RTDs have been conducted. The topics of these RTDs include the following:
• Culture and Economic Policy; Urban Development and Urban Land Policy; Food Security and Rural Land Policy; Structural Adjustment Program and Macro Economic Policy; Human Resource Development; Privatisation and Developing Domestic Entrepreneurship Capacity; The Economics of the Ethio-Eritrean War; The Relevance of the East Asian Experience to Ethiopia; Promoting the Export Sector; Regional Economic Co-operation and Its Future Prospect; Land Policy in Ethiopia; Poverty in Ethiopia; Economic Policy in the 1992 Elections; Financial Liberalisation; The Energy Sector; Economic Policy Implementation; Financing Health Services; Economic Policy in Ethiopia; Industrial Policy; The PRSP Process; Financial Sector Reform; and The Unemployment Situation in Ethiopia.

The papers presented at the RTDs and the comments and views reflected, and other articles are published in the bi-monthly bulletin of the Association titled Economic Focus.

• It publishes the Ethiopian Journal of Economics, a bi-annual .journal, in which economic research findings are published. To- date the Association has produced fourteen issues of the Journal.

• The Association holds General Assemblies of members annually where the activities of the Association are discussed and future plans approved.

• The Association has established, under it, the Ethiopian Economic Policy Research Institute (EEA/EEPRI) in July 2000 as its . research arm. The Institute would be involved in research on various issues that are of critical importance for Ethiopia's economic development. Currently, the Institute is conducting research on land policy and agriculture, human resource development and industrial policy.

• The Association with the EEPRI publishes an annual report on the Ethiopian economy. The First Annual Report was published in 1999/2000 and the second one is expected to be published by early 2002.

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