傳媒

中國與印度的政治經濟

2012年04月13日

 

作為亞洲巨擘，中國和印度，在國際舞台上扮演非常重要的角色。香港大學社會科學學院將於二零一二年四月十七日，舉行一場以「中國和印度的增長與管治模式」為題的講座。此講座由加州大學柏克萊分校Pranab Bardhan 教授主講，他將討論中印兩國之資本主義性質和管治制度的分別，並深入探討兩國問責制度的失敗之處。
現誠邀傳媒出席講座，詳情如下：

日期：二零一二年四月十七日(星期二)
時間：下午六時三十分 (下午六時敬備酒會)
地點：香港大學黃麗松講堂
語言：英語

傳媒如需安排個別訪問或其他安排，請聯絡香港大學社會科學學院薛曉霞小姐(電話：2859 2983 / 電郵：vansit@hku.hk)。

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Biography of Professor Pranab Bardhan
Pranab Bardhan, a Cambridge University PhD, has been a professor of economics at Berkeley for many years, following teaching appointments at MIT, the Indian Statistical Institute, and the Delhi School of Economics. He was the chief editor of the Journal of Development Economics from 1985 to 2003. He was the co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance from 1996 to 2007. He held the Distinguished Fulbright Siena Chair at the University of Siena, Italy in 2008-9. He was the BP Centennial Professor at London School of Economics in 2010 and 2011. He is the author of 12 books and more than 120 journal articles, and the editor of 12 other books.

He has done theoretical and field studies research on rural institutions in poor countries, on political economy of development policies, and on international trade. A part of his work is in the interdisciplinary area of economics, political science, and social anthropology. His current research involves theoretical and empirical work on decentralized governance, and the political economy of development in China and India.

His latest book, Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India is published by Princeton University Press, 2010.