The objective of the conference is to further our understanding from an empirical perspective of developments in China and other transition economies (e.g. Russia, CIS, Eastern Europe, Vietnam) in the areas of the measurement of growth, productivity and other macroeconomic aggregates, as well as...

Ragnar Nurkse’s writings on economic development and on the problems of finance are as relevant today as they were when he wrote. This conference will discuss Nurkse’s work also in relationship to his contemporaries in development economics, and the common elements of development economics...