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Swedish Scholar Shares his Opinions with Students at the CCER

发布日期:2005-11-21 10:56    来源:北京大学国家发展研究院

On the evening of Nov.6, visiting scholar of CCER, Christer Ljungwall, gave a lecture to the dual degree students in Philosophy Building. The discourse was centered around a recent study of Christer, in which he analyzed the perhaps most popular model used to depict the process of economic integration and development in Pacific Asia, the Flying Geese pattern of shifting comparative advantage.

    After a retrospection of the trend of globalization in East and South-East Asia, he argued that economic and other societal processes are best understood in relation to one another.

    It was true that The Flying Geese model can readily accommodate a variety of angles to intra-regional trade and investment. However, there are clearly instances where the model is not entirely correct.

    And then, the lecture took a further step to propose that while the Flying Geese pattern of intra-regional trade and investment might well hold for the period up to 1997, subsequent developments had served to distort it beyond recognition.

    He took the instance of China for concrete analysis and arrived at the conclusion that Globalization, political change and markets beyond the confines of the model are all important to the picture.

    The discourse lasted for an hour and received much applause from the audiences.