2006 Pan Asia Presentations

PAN ASIA 2006

Held June 1-3, the 2006 Pan Asia Conference examined economic issues in Asia with a focus on what the emergence of China and India will mean to the entire region. Some of our keynote speakers included Haruhiko Kuroda, the President of the Asian Development Bank, Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, and Kakutaro Kitashiro, Chairman of IBM Japan. Thank you to all of the conference participants and those in attendance for making the three-day event such a success.

Challenges of Economic Policy Reform in Asia

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Media and News Articles

Former member of the Indian Ministry of Finance and conference participant N.K. Singh wrote the following article on June 4th for The Indian Express, titled "Stanford Re-examines Federal Complexities"
*Suhel Seth's article on the Pan Asia Conference, "View from the Valley" appeared in The Asian Age* on June 4th, 2006.**
Shalini Narang, in her feature published on June 8th by the Hindustan Times, summarizes many of the issues and complexities addressed during the Pan Asia Conference.
*SCID Pan Asia Conference Challenges of Economic Policy Reform in Asia* discussed in Hindustan Times article of June 20th by NK Singh If it’s to be an Asian century .**
T N Srinivasan, in his article Meet finds China growth sustainable, India’s possible on June 25th in The Sunday Express, discusses many of the issues and addressed at the Pan Asia Conference.
Arvind Panagariya / T N Srinivasan, in their article article India’s Unfortunate Conversion to Preferential Trade Liberalization on July 9, 2006 in The Indian Express, comment on issues discussed at the Pan Asia Conference held at Stanford.
N. Ravi , in an Op-Ed article Half way to getting it right on July 10, 2006 in The Hindu, discusses views at the Pan Asia Conference.
Anjini Kochar, India Program director at SCID, writes an article about one of the Pan Asia Conference issues, contrasts in Education between India and China As Govt fumbles on higher education, a lesson from Stanford