[5.31-6.1]NSD/ADB Project Inception Workshop

发布日期:2010-05-26 01:50    来源:北京大学国家发展研究院

ADB/National School of Development (NSD) PROJECT:

CHINA TOWARD AN UPPER MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRY:

CHALLENGES AND POLICY OPTIONS

 

Inception Workshop

 

May 31 – June 1, 2010
2nd Floor, Wanzhong Building, China Center for Economic Research
National School of Development, Peking University

 

AM May 31, 2010

 

8:30-9:00

Registration

9:00-10:00

Opening Session

9:00-9:10

Welcome remarks

 

Yiping Huang (CCER/NSD)

9:10-9:20

Opening remarks

 

Jong Wha Lee (ADB)

9:20-9:50

Keynote speeches (tentative titles)

 

Dwight Perkins (Harvard): Rebalancing and Sustaining Economic Growth in China: Challenges and Policy Options

Nicholas Lardy (PIIE): Sustaining Economic Growth in China

9:50-10:10

Challenge in and Options for Sustaining PRC''s economic growth: An Overview
Huang Yiping (CCER) and Zhuang Juzhong (ADB)

10:10-10:20

Tea break

 

 

10:20-12:20

Session 1: Macroeconomics and Finance

 

Chairperson: Don Hanna (Fortress)

10:20-10:50

An agenda for open macroeconomic policy reform

 

Presenter: Lu Feng (CCER/NSD)

Discussant: Maria Socorro Bautista (ADB)

10:50-11:20

Renminbi internationalization

 

Presenter: Jong Wha Lee (ADB)

Discussant: He Dong (HKMA)

11:20-11:50

Financial sector development and structure

 

Presenter: Wu Ho-mou (CCER/NSD)

Discussant: Nicholas Lardy (PIIE)

11:50-12:20

Open-floor discussion

 

 

 

 

PM May 31, 2010

 

1:30-3:30

Session 2: Structural Transformation I

 

Chairperson: Paul Heytens (ADB)

1:30-2:00

Moving up the value chain in manufacturing

 

Presenter: Yu Miaojie (CCER/NSD)

Discussant: Loren Brandt (Univ. of Toronto)

2:00-2:30

Empirics of global manufacturing upgrading and policy implications for PRC

 

Presenter: Loren Brandt (Univ. of Toronto)

Discussant: Xiaolu Wang (NERI)

2:30-3:00

Modernizing the tertiary sector

 

Presenter: Xu Jianguo (CCER/NSD)

Discussant: Donghyun Park (ADB)

3:00-3:30

Open-floor discussion

3:30-3:40

Tea break

 

 

3:40-5:40

Session 3: Education, Labor and Income Distribution

 

Chairperson: Juzhong Zhuang (ADB)

3:40-4:10

Demographic change and labor market

 

Presenter: Cai Fang (CASS) (presented by Du Yang, CASS)

Discussant: Yolanda Fernandez (ADB)

4:10-4:40

Education and human capital development

 

Presenter: Wang Meiyan (CASS)

Discussant: Tang Min (DRC, invited)

4:40-5:10

Income distribution, the rise of the middle class, and inclusive growth

 

Presenter: Yan Ping (CCER/NSD)

Discussant: Du Yang (CASS)

5:10-5:40

Open-floor discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

AM June 1, 2010

 

9:00-11:00

Session 4: Structural Transformation II

 

Chairperson: Wu Ho-mou (CCER/NSD)

9:00-9:30

Urbanization

 

Presenter: Li Lixing (CCER/NSD)

Discussant: Athar Hussain (LSE)

9:30-10:00

SME development

 

Presenter: Xu Zhong (PBC)

Discussant: Mingquan Liu (PKU) or Yan Shen (CCER/NSD)

10:00-10:30

China’s growth model and structural imbalances

 

Presenter: Yao Yang (CCER/NSD)

Discussant: Linda Yueh (Oxford)

10:30-11:00

Open-floor discussion

11:00-11:10

Tea break

 

 

11:10-12:30

Session 5: Social Policy and Public Finance

 

Chairperson: Wing Thye Woo (UC Davis)

11:10-11:40

Social policy and protection

 

Presenters: Zhao Yaohui and Lei Xiaoyan (CCER/NSD)

Discussant: Hyun Hwa Son (ADB)

11:40-12:10

Public finance and fiscal sustainability

 

Presenter: Jia Kang (MOF)

Discussant: Don Hanna (Fortress)

12:10-12:30

Open-floor discussion

 

 

 

 

PM June 1, 2010

 

1:30-2:50

Session 6: Low Carbon and Sustainable Growth

 

Chairperson: Athar Hussain (LSE)

1:30-2:00

The economics of climate change and low carbon growth in China

 

Presenter: Juzhong Zhuang (ADB)

Discussant:

2:00-2:30

Modeling China''s long term growth potential

 

Presenters: Zhai Fan (CIC) and Yi Jiang (ADB)

Discussant: Li Shantong (DRC)

2:30-2:50

Open-floor discussion

2:50-3:00

Tea break

 

 

3:00-4:20

Session 7: International Experiences

 

Chairperson: Yiping Huang (CCER/NSD)

3:00-3:30

Structural transformation and policies: Experiences of East Asia

 

Presenter: Wing Thye Woo (UC Davis)

Discussant: Liqing Zhang (CUFE)

3:30-4:00

Structural transformation and policies: Latin America

 

Presenter: Nora Lustig (Tulane Univ.)

Discussant: Xiao Geng (Tsinghua and Brookings)

4:00-4:20

Open-floor discussion

4:30-5:15

Panel Discussion

 

Chairperson: Jong Wha Lee (ADB)

 

Panelists: Dwight Perkins, Don Hanna, Athar Hussain, Yang Yao