Inequality and Development in China

发布日期:2004-06-23 10:40    来源:北京大学国家发展研究院

Inequality and Development in China

Co-sponsored by

The McArthur Research Network on Inequality and Economic Growth

and

CCER, Peking University

 

Time: June 28-29, 2004

Location: Multifunction Hall, 2nd Floor, Wanzhong Yuan, CCER, Peking University

 

JUNE 28

 

8:30-9:00:   Registration


9:00- 9:15     Welcome and Introductions

9:15- 10:30    Justin Yifu Lin, CCER, "Economic Development Strategies: Equity and Efficiency"

tea/coffee break

10:45- 12:00    Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen, World Bank, "China's (Uneven) Progress against Poverty since the Early 1980's"

lunch break

1:30- 2:45      Scott Rozelle, UC Davis, "Assessing China's War on Poverty: Growth Linkages or Poor Areas Policies"

2:45 -4:00     John Giles, Michigan State University, "Inequality and Growth in China"

tea/coffee break

4:15-5:15      Panel discussion on Policy Issues in China (arranged by CCER)

5:15-6:00      An Overview of the Inequality Network Research (led by Sam Bowles and Pranab Bardhan)


JUNE 29

9:00-10:15    Thomas Piketty, ENS-CEPREMAP, and Nancy Qian, MIT, "Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation
in China and India, 1987-2002"

tea/coffee break

10:30- 11:45   Yaohui Zhao, CCER, "Urban-Rural Wage Inequality in China"

lunch break

1:30- 2:45     Yan Shen, CCER, " Grassroots Democracy and Income Distribution"

2:45- 4:00      Yang Yao, CCER, "Patterns of Gender Gap in the Access to Health Care in Rural China"

tea/coffee break

4:15- 5:30      Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Nancy Qian, MIT, "Access to Railroad and Globalization"