Demystifying the Chinese Economy

Speaker: Professor Justin Lin
Chair: Professor Danny Quah
Recorded on 18 December 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building.

As a result of the miraculous growth since the market-oriented reform in 1979, China's status in the global economy has dramatically changed. This speech will reflect on China's unprecedented growth in the past 32 years, examine the reasons of that growth, and discuss prospects and challenges for China to maintain an eight-percent annual growth rate in the coming decades.

Justin Yifu Lin is the former World Bank chief economist and senior vice president, development economics. Lin is the founder and first director of the China Center for Economic Research and a former professor of economics at Peking University and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Justin Lin is to receive an Honorary Degree from LSE -- Doctor of Science (Economics).

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