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Justin Yifu Lin
World Bank Publications

Higher Education and Development

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AuthorJustin Yifu Lin
PublisherWorld Bank Publications
PublishedSep 01 2008
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780821371237
Dimensions9.9 X 6.9 X 0.9 inches
Weight 1.35 pounds
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CategoriesBusiness & Economics > Reference - General
LanguageEnglish

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The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) brings together the world's leading scholars and development practitioners for a lively debate on state-of-the-art thinking in development policy and the implications for the global economy. The 19th conference was held in Beijing, China, January 16-17, 2007. The theme of the conference was higher education and development, which was divided into five topics: migration, private-public provision, financing, technological innovation, and labor markets in Asia. IN THIS VOLUME Introduction by Justin Yifu Lin and Boris Pleskovic; opening addresses by Wu Qidi and Fran�ois Bourguignon; keynote addresses by Fran�ois Bourguignon and F. Halsey Rogers, Min Weifang, and L. Alan Winters; papers by Pawan Agarwal, Nicholas Barr, Maryann Feldmann and Ian Stewart, Daniel Levy, Bengt-�ke Lundvall, Mark Rosenweig; and comments by Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro, Kai-Ming Cheng, Frederic Doquier, Fumio Kodama, Norman LaRocque, Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin, Patricia A. Sto Tomas, and Shahid Yusuf.

Author Bio

Justin Yifu LIN is Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics, Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Professor and Honorary Dean of National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012.

Prior to this, Mr. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University.

He is Councilor of the State Council and a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference. He is the author of more than 20 books including Beating the Odd: Jump-starting Developing Countries; Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation, the Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy, Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession, and Demystifying the Chinese Economy.

He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World.

Source: Center for New Structural Economics at Peking University

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