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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Presentations

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Session 1: Productivity in China and India
Peter Klenow and Chang-Tai Hsieh, PPT
Khuong Vu, PDF
Mark Spiegel, PPT


Session 2: Federalism and Decentralization
T.N. Srinivasan and Nirvikar Singh, PPT
Teresa Ter-Minassian, PPT
Masa Aoki, PPT

Session 3: Economic Prospects in Asia
Ishrat Husain, PPT

Session 4: The Business Environment in Asia: Progress and Problems
Laura Ipsen, PPT

Session 5: Regional Finance and Monetary Issues
Rakesh Mohan, PPT
Takatoshi Ito, PPT
Wu Xiaoling, PPT


Session 6: Trade and Regional Integration
Arvind Panagariya, PPT
Shujiro Urata, PPT
David Roland-Holst, PPT

Session 7: Financing Small-Scale and/or Rural Enterprises
David Scott, PPT
Alain De Janvry, PDF


Session 8: Rural Development in China and India
Yujiro Hayami, PPT
Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee, PDF
Suman Bery, PPT
Elisabeth Sadoulet, PDF

Session 9: Health in China and India
Alan Garber, PPT
Amita Gupta, PPT
Aprajit Mahajan, PDF
Alessandro Tarozzi, PDF

Session 10: Technology and Intellectual Property Rights
V.S. Ramamurthy, PPT
Frederick Abbott, PPT


Session 11: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
Kenneth Arrow and Larry Goulder, PPT
Kirit Parikh, PPT
Kenneth Chay, Word

Session 12: State Level Perspectives and Reforms
N.S. Kalsi, PPT
G.S. Kang, PPT
Jay Panda, PPT

Session 13: Issues in Higher Education
Xue Lan, PPT
Martin Carnoy, PPT
Seema Jayachandran, PDF


Session 14: Demographic Issues
David Bloom, PPT
Sabine Jokisch, PDF

 
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