Video and Audio Lectures in Specific economies or countries

Howard Davies sits on the International advisory councils of the China banking and securities regulatory commissions. In this lecture from October 2008, he is in in conversation with Professor Danny Quah from the LSE. Davies reviews the progress of reform in China’s financial markets, and the implications for the rest of the world. The conversation is available as a 90 minute audio podcast (mp3) with the accompanying website providing speaker notes and PowerPoint slides.

Meghnad Desai, one of the world’s leading development economists, is a Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics and a member of the House of Lords. Here he speaks at the Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS), University of Bristol. This audio file starts with a welcome from Professor Yongjin Zhang (Director of CEAS) and is followed by an introduction by Professor David Clarke (Deputy Vice Chancellor, Bristol University) who introduces Lord Meghnad Desai. Lord Desai discusses the role of China in the previous economic boom, the current downturn, and the role China will need to play in future global financial architecture. A summary of the talk is available as a Word document, along with an mp3 audio file of the event.

As China takes its place among the world’s richest economies, economic growth in the long run will endure only if innovation and technology capabilities ramp up dramatically. How will this happen? Danny Quah of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) discusses this topic in this 70 minute audio (mp3) lecture, recorded in 2007.