Inequality and Development in China
Co-sponsored by
The McArthur Research Network on Inequality and Economic Growth
and
CCER, Peking University
Time: June 28-29, 2004
Location: Multifunction Hall, 2nd Floor, Wanzhong Yuan, CCER, Peking University
JUNE 28
8:30-9:00: Registration
9:00- 9:15 Welcome and Introductions
9:15- 10:30 Justin Yifu Lin, CCER, "Economic Development Strategies: Equity and Efficiency"
tea/coffee break
10:45- 12:00 Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen, World Bank, "China's (Uneven) Progress against Poverty since the Early 1980's"
lunch break
1:30- 2:45 Scott Rozelle, UC Davis, "Assessing China's War on Poverty: Growth Linkages or Poor Areas Policies"
2:45 -4:00 John Giles, Michigan State University, "Inequality and Growth in China"
tea/coffee break
4:15-5:15 Panel discussion on Policy Issues in China (arranged by CCER)
5:15-6:00 An Overview of the Inequality Network Research (led by Sam Bowles and Pranab Bardhan)
JUNE 29
9:00-10:15 Thomas Piketty, ENS-CEPREMAP, and Nancy Qian, MIT, "Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation
in China and India, 1987-2002"
tea/coffee break
10:30- 11:45 Yaohui Zhao, CCER, "Urban-Rural Wage Inequality in China"
lunch break
1:30- 2:45 Yan Shen, CCER, " Grassroots Democracy and Income Distribution"
2:45- 4:00 Yang Yao, CCER, "Patterns of Gender Gap in the Access to Health Care in Rural China"
tea/coffee break
4:15- 5:30 Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Nancy Qian, MIT, "Access to Railroad and Globalization"
