China's Reform and Opening-up at Forty: The State Strikes Back?
Hideo Ohashi
- Visiting Scholar, East West Center Research Program
With the exhaustion of surplus labor, China is now aiming at innovation-driven economic growth. Resurgent state dominance seems to be diminishing the vital role of the market and private firms, however. By highlighting the dual traps—the middle-income trap and the regime-transition trap—the presentation assesses China’s efforts at reform and opening-up over the past forty years and the prospects China’s future.
This event is cosponsored by the East West Center and the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. HST