Tentative Program

July 3, 2013 (Wed.)
Room 807, School of Economics, SUFE

08:30-8:45	Check in
08:45-09:00	Welcome Remark
09:00-09:20	Donghyun Park (Asian Development Bank): "Growth Slowdowns Redux: New Evidence on the Middle-Income Trap"
09:20-09:35	Discussant's Comments and Q&A
09:35-09:55	Nazrul Islam (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs): "Beyond the Middle Income Trap: What Kind of High Income Country Can China Become?"
09:55-10:10	Discussant's Comments and Q&A
10:10-10:30	Tea Break
10:30-10:50	Keun Lee (Seoul National University): "From the Beijing Consensus to Middle Income Trap in China"
10:50-11:05	Discussant's Comments and Q&A
11:05-11:25	Feng Wang (Brookings Institute at Tsinghua University): "March toward a High-Income Society: Why This Time is Different for China"
11:25-11:40	Discussant's Comments and Q&A
11:40-12:00	James Wen (Shanghai University of Finance & Economics): "The Land and Hukou Systems as the Middle Income Trap—the Case of China"
12:00-12:15	Discussant's Comments and Q&A
12:15-13:45	Lunch
13:45-14:05	Wing Thye Woo (University of California at Davis): "China Meets the Middle-Income Trap: The Large Potholes in the Road to Catching-Up"
14:05-14:20	Discussant's Comments and Q&A
14:20-14:40	Yanrui Wu (University of Western Australia): "Productivity, Economic Growth and Middle Income Trap: Implications for China"
14:40-14:55	Discussant's Comments and Q&A
14:55-15:15	Tea Break
15:15-15:35	Ding Lu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): "Is There a Green Path of Catching-up?"
15:35-15:50	Discussant's Comments and Q&A
15:50-16:10	Sarah Tong (East Asian Institute, Singapore): "Sustaining Growth by Transforming China's Trade"
16:10-16:25	Discussant's Comments and Q&A
16:25-16:35	Liguo Lin (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): Closing Remark
18:00-20:00	Farewell Dinner