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Professor Justin Yifu Lin speaks on “Shifting Paradigms on Both Sides of the Global Economic Imbalance”

05 Nov 2009

 

Professor Justin Yifu Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, will give a lecture on "Shifting Paradigms on Both Sides of the Global Economic Imbalance" at the University of Hong Kong on November 9 (Monday).

Professor Lin is the guest speaker of the "Edward K Y Chen Distinguished Lecture Series 2009" held by the School of Economic and Finance of HKU. In the lecture, he will address the problem of global economic imbalances, in particular that between US and China, resulting from the global financial crisis and look into the prospects of structural reforms in both countries.   

Professor Lin took up his World Bank position on June 2, 2008, after serving for 15 years as Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research at Peking University.  As World Bank's Chief Economist, he guides the Bank's intellectual leadership and plays a key role in shaping the research agenda of the institution

You are cordially invited to the lecture. Details are as follows:

Date: 9 November 2009 (Monday)
Time: 6:00 - 7:30pm.
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, HKU
Opening remarks and introduction: Professor Richard Wong, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Chair of Economics, HKU
Closing remarks: Professor Edward Chen Kwan-yiu
Language: English

For further information, please visit:
http://www.sef.hku.hk/eclect/2009/index.html

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