UNU-WIDER Book Launch: Southern Engines of Global Growth & The Rise of China and India
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Book Launch: Southern Engines of Global Growth (Oxford University Press) &
The Rise of China and India (Palgrave Macmillan)
Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
& Guanghua Wan - Address
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UN Conference Hall, UN building,
55 Lodi Estate, New Delhi, 110003, INDIA - Date
- 29 October 2010 16:00 - 18:00
- Contact person
Publications Assistant, UNU-WIDER
The event is free and open to all.
Pre-registration is mandatory.
Admission is ONLY upon registration at: REGISTER HERE
This event is organized in collaboration with the
Global Development Network (GDN) as part of GDN's
Global Policy Dialogues Series.
Speaker:
Amelia Santos-Paulino, Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER
Chairperson:
Gerardo della Paolera, President, Global Development Network was founding president and rector of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and most recently at The American University of Paris (AUP) in Paris, France. Presently Gerardo is a visiting professor at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, with a specialization in economic history. Dr. della Paolera is the winner of the Arthur Cole Prize for the best article published in the Journal of Economic History in 2000: ‘Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of the Macroeconomic Regime’ and has several books to his credit.
Discussant:
Deepak Nayyar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Arising from the UNU-WIDER research project Southern Engines of Global Growth, the two volumes being launched contain studies that use a wealth of data.
Southern Engines of Global Growth analyses the successful experiences of Brazil and South Africa, and provides insights to other countries pursuing sustainable growth and development strategies.
The Rise of China and India examines the rapid reshaping of the world economy with the rise of the two southern giants and the far-reaching implications for every national and regional government, business community, and individual citizen.
About the discussant:
Deepak Nayyar is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and the New School for Social Research, New York. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi for 2000–05. He also served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary in the Ministry of Finance between 1989–91. He is the author, co-author or editor of 12 books, the most recent being Governing Globalization: Issues and Institutions (2002), Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development (2006), Trade and Globalization (2008) and Liberalization and Development (2008).
The event is free and open to all. Pre-registration is mandatory.
Admission is ONLY upon registration at:
REGISTER HERE
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Poster - Book Launch 29 October 2010
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Southern Engines of Global Growth
The Rise of China and India: Impacts, Prospects and Implications (forthcoming)
Edited by
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino is Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland. Previously she was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. She has served as a research economist at the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic and as an advisor to the Government of the Dominican Republic. She specializes in trade and development, with particular reference to developing and least developed countries, and her work has been published in several academic publications including the Economic Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and World Development. She has been a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), for the World Bank, and for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Guanghua Wan is a well-known China specialist and applied economist, author of an expansive list of books and published papers in top refereed journals. His recent work focuses on inequality and poverty in China and elsewhere and has appeared in the Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Review of Development Economics. He is among the leading group of researchers to develop and apply the regression-based inequality decomposition framework. Professor Wan has served as a consultant to many international organizations and advises the Chinese government on rural development, income distribution, and science and technology policies. He is honorary professor of several leading universities in China including Fudan University and Zhejiang University.