Will China Fall into a Middle Income Trap?
21st Century China Event
02/26/2013, 05:00pm-06:30pm
Location: UC San Diego, IR/PS, Room 3201
Open to: Public
Event email: 21china@ucsd.edu
Speaker: Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow, and Co-Director of the Rural Education Action Program, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Registration is required
Despite China's recent robust growth, there is concern that as the country continues to move up the income ladder, its high level of inequality may be a breeding ground for future instability.
Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow, and Co-Director of the Rural Education Action Program at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, will seek to put China’s economic performance and growth-inequality status into perspective. Inequality will be looked at in terms of both the past and present income inequality and in terms of human capital.
He will also look at the experiences of other countries that have attained middle income statuses and examine the nature of economic and social forces that have allowed them to continue to grow in a healthy manner or contributed to a growth slowdown. In the end, he will seek to assess the probability of China falling into a middle income trap and the consequences this would have for China's people, economy, and for the rest of the world.
