“DUAL CIRCULATION” DEMYSTIFIED: CHINA’S DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES by Prof. Dwight Perkins and Arthur Kroeber
“DUAL CIRCULATION” DEMYSTIFIED: CHINA’S DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES
moderated by Arthur Kroeber, an RASBJ zoom talk with QA
WHAT: “DUAL CIRCULATION” DEMYSTIFIED: CHINA’S DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES by Prof. Dwight Perkins, moderated by Arthur Kroeber, an RASBJ zoom talk with QA
WHEN: Oct. 28 Wednesday 21:00 – 22:00 Beijing Standard Time PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENTS STARTS AT 9:00 PM IN BEIJING
MORE ABOUT THE EVENT: This summer Chinese leaders announced their latest economic strategy, enigmatically called “dual circulation.” Though they were vague on the details, there’s really no mystery about it: it is just the latest in a long line of policies aimed at weaning China from exports and infrastructure investment, and enabling consumer spending and technological upgrades to power economic growth. In this talk, Harvard Professor Dwight Perkins — the dean of China development studies, who first visited the country in 1974 — will draw on his decades of research to explain China’s past economic success and outline why it may be tough to keep it going in future.
MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Dwight H. Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy of Harvard University, where he joined the faculty in 1963. He has authored or edited twenty-five books and over one hundred articles on economic history and economic development, with special references to the economies of China, Korea, Vietnam and the other nations of east and southeast Asia. Topics include the transition from central planning to the market, long-term agricultural development, industrial policy, the underlying sources of growth in East Asia, and the role of economic and legal institutions in East Asian growth. He has served as an advisor or consultant to the governments of Korea, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. He has also been a long-term consultant to the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, and various agencies of the U.S. government including the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and received his BA from Cornell and his MA and PhD from Harvard.
MORE ABOUT THE MODERATOR: Arthur Kroeber co-founded the China-focused research service Dragonomics in Beijing in 2002 and is the editor-in-chief of China Economic Quarterly. Since Dragonomics’ 2011 merger with Gavekal Research he has been head of research for the combined operation. Before founding Dragonomics, he was from 1987 to 2002 a journalist specializing in Asian economic affairs, and reported from China, India, Pakistan and other Asian countries. He has published widely in newspapers, magazines and academic journals, and is a fellow of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center in Beijing.
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