Below are presentations from the Prosperity and Inequality: Debates in India and China conference at The New School (March 27-28, 2008).

Session I: Cities, Capital Formation And Social Discontent

Robert Buckley, Capital Formation and Social Discontent

Zhiwu Chen, Do State Ownership and Regulations Reduce Inequality?

Michael Cohen, The Crises of Urban Capital and Labor

Session II: The Social Costs Of Growth

Shantayanan Devarajan, Why does India still have so many poor people?

Carl Riskin, Some Social Costs of Transition and Development in China

Xiu Lan Zhang, The Costs of Migration in China: A Life Stage Perspective

Session III: Designs For The Future

Brank Milanovic, China, India and Global Inequality

Session IV: Searching For Models: A New Asian Social Contract?

Arjun Appadurai, Who Owns Asia’s Future?

Tao Liu, In Search of a New Model of Development in Asia

Yushi Mao, Chinese experience on its economic prosperity