Date: Tuesday 23 August 2022
Time: 5.30 – 7.00pm AEST
Location: CIW Auditorium, Building 188, Fellows Lane, The Australian National University
About this event
The Chinese economy has long been a source of contention, with predictions of its “imminent collapse” pitted against portrayals of its strength and resilience. Is China’s competitive edge dying as it “runs out of people” or is slower population growth not quite that catastrophic? Will President Xi Jinping achieve his goal of Common Prosperity for all Chinese citizens, or will rampant inequality constrain economic growth and make that impossible? Will the Dual Circulation strategy enhance domestic consumption and international trade, or is it a protectionist challenge to globalisation? Can Xi’s “iron fist” deliver green growth or does it condemn China to dirty skies? In this CIW Annual Lecture, Professor Jane Golley will draw on a range of “China narratives” to highlight how fact, fiction, faith and flexible thinking affect one’s answers these complex questions, including her own. In so doing, she will identify factors that are likely (in her view) to constrain China’s economic growth in the decade ahead, as well as those likely to sustain it.
Professor Jane Golley is an economist in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. Her inter-disciplinary research centres on the Chinese economy, including the economic geography of industrial development, the economic impacts of demographic change and the impact of China’s bilateral political relations on patterns of trade.
