Economic development in India and China: A tale of two countries
Asia Research Centre invites you to a guest lecture with Professor Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi:
Economic development in India and China: A tale of two countries
This lecture analyses the economic performance of India and China during the second half of the twentieth century, situated in a longer term historical perspective, to explore the similarities and differences in their development experience.
First, it considers the changes in their significance in the world economy, from 1870 to 2000, in comparison with other parts of the world.Second, it seeks to focus on the period since 1950, to examine their performance in terms of economic growth, as compared with Asia, other regions of the developing world, the industrialized countries and the world economy. Third, it outlines the dramatic changes in perceptions, not always consistent with the realities, about economic development in India since independence and in China after the revolution. Fourth, it explores the anatomy of these new success stories in development, to analyse the lessons from, and implications of the development experience of these two Asian giants.
In conclusion, the lecture reflects upon the nature of the relationship between outcomes in development and thinking about development.
Deepak Nayyar is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and the New School for Social Research, New York. He is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi from 2000 to 2005. He also served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India from 1989 to 1991. His publications include more than 50 papers in academic journals and 12 books, the most recent being Governing Globalization (2002), Stability with Growth (2006), Trade and Globalization (2008) and Liberalization and Development (2008), all of which are published by Oxford University Press.
Arranged by the Asia Research Centre, CBS