- Balancing Acts
- Can China's Growth be Sustained? A Productivity Perspective
- Measuring Potential Output in a Rapidly Developing Economy: The Case of China, and a Comparison with the United States and the European Union
- On Chinese productivity studies
- Afghanistan and regional instability: A risk assessment
- Central Asia: A Testing Ground for New Great-Power Relations
- A Match Made in Heaven? Strategic Convergence between China and Russia
- Corruption in China and Russia compared. Different legacies of central planning
- A Match Made in Heaven?
- Hvem har hørt om Heilongjiang? Kina og India: land eller kontinenter i utenrikspolitikken?
- Trade and growth – again
- Regional Trade Agreements vs. Multilateral Trading System: A Study of Chinese Interests and Policy Options
- European Integration and Domestic Regions: A Numerical Simulation Analysis
[17.12.08] China and the World Economy
The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs [NUPI] has the great pleasure of inviting you to the seminar:
Technology and Trade
China and the World Economy
Tid:
Onsdag 17.12.08, kl. 10:00
Sted:
NUPI,
C.J. Hambros plass 2 D
Programme:
China and Globalisation
William Overholt, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA
Potential Growth: Comparing China, Europe, and US
Jinghai Zheng, Department of International Economics, NUPI
Does Economic Growth in China Raise Happiness?
John Knight, University of Oxford, UK
Panel Discussion (incl Q&A)
William Overholt, Arne Bigsten, John Knight, and Jinghai Zheng
Chair: Jan Egeland, NUPI
You are also welcome to participate at the 2008 Workshop on Technology and Trade 17 - 18 December.
Keynote Speakers
William H. Overholt holds a research position at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, he held the Asia Policy Distinguished Research Chair at RAND’s California headquarters and was director of the centre. Dr. Overholt is the author of six books, including Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics (Cambridge University Press and RAND, 2007) and The Rise of China (W.W. Norton, 1993)
John B. Knight, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. He specialises in income distribution, human capital and labour markets in dynamic transition. His latest book, Towards a Labour Market in China, won the Richard A. Lester Prize for " outstanding book in Labour Economics and Industrial Relations published in 2005".
Dr Jinghai Zheng received his doctoral degree from Gothenburg University in 1997. He is now a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of International Economics, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Gothenburg University, Sweden. His main field of research is economic growth and applied productivity analysis on China.