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| | Edited by Jiwei Lou, Shuilin Wang |
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| | This book brings together analysis and |
| | insights from high-level Chinese |
| | policy-makers and prominent international |
| | scholars in addressing the key challenges |
| | China is facing in maintaining rapid |
| | growth and achieving the Government's |
| | stated goal of creating a harmonious |
| | society. It analyzes such key policy |
| | issues as: public finance and the |
| | changing role of the state; fiscal reform |
| | and revenue and expenditure assignments; |
| | inter-governmental relations and fiscal |
| | transfers; and financing and delivery of |
| | basic public goods such as compulsory |
| | education, innovation, public health, and |
| | Social protection. |
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| | More information about the book is |
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
3:00 - 5:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Room JB1-080
701 18th Steet, NW Washington, DC 20433
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MODERATED BY
Jim Adams
Vice President of the East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank
In the capacity as Vice President, Mr. Adams has overall
responsibility for World Bank operations in one of the world?s most
dynamic regions, covering more than a dozen states ranging from the
world?s most populous country --China-- to the smallest and most
remote Pacific Islands states.
PRESENTATION BY AUTHORS
Jiwei Lou
Minister,China
Mr. Lou is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the China
Investment Corporation (CIC). He has held a variety of high level
posts in China, serving as Deputy Secretary-General of China's State
Council, Executive Vice Minister of Finance, Vice Governor of
Guizhou Province, Director-General of Macroeconomics Department at
the State Commission for Restructuring Economic System, Deputy Head
of Research at the Department of the General Office of the State
Council, among other positions. He has published extensively on
public finance, taxation, banking and monetary policy, international
trade and tariffs, inflation, and economic reform.
Shuilin Wang
Senior Economist, World Bank
Mr. Wang is a Senior Economist in the Development Economics Vice
Presidency. Prior to joining the Bank in 2002, he worked in Chinese
government. His last assignment was as a director-general in charge
of international comparative studies at China's State Council
Economic Restructuring Office.
PANEL DISCUSSANTS
Teresa Ter-Minassian
Director of Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
Ms. Ter-Minassian has been director of the Fiscal Affairs Department
since 2001. For eight years, she was chief of the Southern European
division in the IMF. From 1988 to 1996, she held the position of
Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the Fund. She
also headed the IMF Task Force for the joint study of the Soviet
economy. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Director of the Western
Hemisphere Department.
Martin Ravallion
Director of the Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Ravallion is Director of the Development Research Group. He has
held various position in the Bank, since joining as an economist in
1988. He has written three books and over 170 papers on poverty and
policies for fighting it. He currently serves on the editorial
boards of ten economic journals, is a Senior Fellow of the Bureau
for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, a founding council
member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality and he
serves on the advisory board of the International Poverty Research
Center.
Carlos Alberto Braga
Director, Economic Policy and Debt, PREM Network
Mr. Braga is Director of Economic Policy and Debt in the PREM
Network, and Chairman of the Economic Policy Sector Board. Since
joining the Bank in 1991, he has held managerial positions in the
Energy, Mining, and Telecommunications, Global ICT (infoDev) and ISG
groups. From 2006 until recently, as Senior Advisor for PRMVP and as
Head of IPPG , Mr. Braga led the aid architecture agenda, and
managed PREM strategic relationships with key shareholders,
bilateral agencies, and regional development banks to maximize
institutional leverage for the Bank. Prior to that, he was Senior
Advisor in the International Trade Department based in Geneva.
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