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?