Speaker: David Dollar

 

Time: 14:00-15:30, Thursday June 6^th, 2013

 

Venue: Room 302, School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University

 

Language: English

 

 

 

David Dollar is the US Treasury’s Economic and Financial Emissary to China, based in Beijing, since July 2009.  In this capacity he facilitates the macroeconomic and financial policy dialogue between US Treasury and Chinese policy-makers, including through the economic track of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue.  Prior to joining the US Treasury Dollar worked 20 years for the World Bank.  Most recently he served as Country Director for China and Mongolia, based in Beijing, starting in July 2004.  His other World Bank assignments included work on economic reform in Vietnam (1989-1995) and in the Bank’s research department (1995-2004).  His published research focuses on globalization, growth, and poverty.  Prior to joining the World Bank he taught economics at UCLA, during which time he spent a semester in Beijing teaching at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1986).  He has a PhD in economics from New York University and a B.A. in Chinese history and language from Dartmouth College.

 

 

 

This presentation draws some stylized facts from the rapid growth phases of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan and examines China’s rebalancing challenges in light of those earlier experiences.