[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
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.