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【Dec. 2】The 9th NSE International Development Forum
2016-11-28
NSE International Development Forum
Public Investment for Sustainable Growth:
Making the One Belt One Road Program Work
Time：13:30-15:00, Dec. 2/Fri., 2016
Venue：Zhifuxuan Classroom, NSD, PKU
Host: Prof. Yan WANG
Speaker：Prof. Syed Ehtisham Ahmad (Univ. of Bonn and LSE)
Commentator：Prof. Shuanglin Lin
【ABSTRACT】
Public Investment in infrastructure is critical in ensuring sustainable and inclusive growth. In principle this should also assist in achieving greater interpersonal equity and spatial convergence, especially through the creation of new “clean cities” or hubs away from congested and polluted metropolitan areas that have developed in the first stages of development in Asia (India and China) and Latin America (e.g., Mexico and Chile). However, achieving the sustainable outcomes requires a comprehensive approach to public policies and project selection linked to expanding the production possibility frontiers of the countries concerned. Based on research supported by the Inter-American Development Bank, we draw some lessons from the adverse outcomes in Chile, which has often been praised by the International Agencies for having one of the best investment management systems in the world.
【SPEAKER】
Ahmad held senior positions in the IMF during 1990-2010, was Special Advisor to the Finance Minister, Saudi Arabia, 1996-1998 (on leave from the IMF). He was on the staff team for the 1990 World Development Report “Poverty.” He was Director of the Development Economics Research Program, STICERD, LSE (1986-1990), and Deputy Director of the Development Economics Research Center at Warwick University (1980-1986).
Ahmad has written widely on public policy and fiscal reforms, governance, fiscal federalism and poverty reduction. His recent books include Sustainable Development in China: fiscal underpinnings of rebalancing in Guangdong, (forthcoming, with Meili Niu and Kezhou Xiao);Multi-level Finance and the Crisis in Europe,Elgar 2016 (with Giorgio Brosio and Massimo Bordignon); Handbook of Multilevel Finance, Elgar 2015.
Some earlier books include Theory and Practice of Tax Reform in Developing Countries; Cambridge University Press 1991 (with Nicholas Stern); Social Security in Developing Countries, Oxford University Press 1992 (with Jean Drèze, John Hills and Amartya Sen;Reforming China’s Public Finances, IMF, 1995 (with Gao Qiang and Vito Tanzi), and Financing Decentralized Expenditures, Edward Elgar 1997.
Ahmad’s current research projects include Tax and Social Policy in the Presence of Informality—drawing primarily on Indonesia and Mexico; Rebalancing and Multilevel finance in China;Fiscal Policy and the OBOR; and Convergence and Public Investment in Chile and emerging market economies.
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