Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on April 27.
*Please register at Registration Form by April 24 (Fri)
17：00.
https://gpwreminder.grips.ac.jp/form/0002/107th-grips-f
orum-on-27th-april/

*If you can’t open the registration form, please send an email to gripsforum@grips.ac.jp with your name, affiliation, job title, phone number or email address without changing the title.

*If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car information (type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus entry permission.

Date: Monday, 27　April, 2015
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS　Sokairou Hall, 1st Floor
Speaker: Professor Toshihiro Ihori, Professor, GRIPS
Theme: fiscal consolidation and generational equity
Language: Japanese (English simultaneous interpretation
provided)

Japan's fiscal situation and generational equity have been deteriorated. In an aging and stagnation society fiscal consolidation does not necessarily attain generational equity. This lecture investigates how to restore fiscal consolidation and generational equity by focusing on social security and election system reforms in a political economy.

Speakers’ Profile:
Professor Ihori has been Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Economics at University of Tokyo and is now in National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
(GRIPS) since April 2015. He was an Executive Research Fellow in the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. He was the President of the Japanese Economic Association and the President of the Japanese Association of Public Finance. He is a member of the Fiscal System Council in the Ministry of Finance.

*** GRIPS Forum ***
Since its establishment in 1997, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), as the only graduate school in Japan specializing in policy research, has promoted education and research on a wide range of policy issues.
Utilizing our vast policy network, this Forum invites leaders from various fields including government, academia and business, as well as staff from our own faculty, to deliver lectures on current policy concerns.
The Forum welcomes attendance of GRIPS faculty and students as well as participants from outside the university. Simultaneous interpretation will be available (Japanese/English).

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For registration and inquiries, please contact: Ms.
Oshikawa
gripsforum@grips.ac.jp
http://www.grips.ac.jp/
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