jun1605 seminar

Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

“ Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the U.S. and Asia”


Towards an Asian Economic Community:
An Indian Perspective

16 June 2005

 
About This Seminar :
 
Main Speaker:


Dr. Kumar will discuss how India’s economy has become the most dynamic in the world while also integrating closely with the world economy. He will also discuss how besides tapping the opportunities created by global economic integration, regional economic integration in Asia could serve as an additional engine of growth for India and other developing countries in Asia by facilitating trade and investment. There is growing recognition in Asia of the importance of broader regional economic integration to which India can contribute to and benefit from. Dr. Kumar will examine the relevance and potential of broader Asian economic integration, areas of cooperation, and possible approaches to its evolvement.


 

Dr. Nagesh Kumar
Director-General
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, India

Discussants:
Dr. Ed Lincoln
Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations

Dr. Catherine Mann
Senior Fellow
Institute for International Economics

Moderator:

Dr. Walter Andersen
Associate Director of South Asia Studies
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University


This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan .

About the Main Speaker

Dr. Nagesh Kumar is Director-General of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS). He joined the faculty of RIS in 1985. He has also taught at the United Nations University – Institute of New Technologies in the Netherlands and directed its research program on Globalization, FDI and technology transfers in developing countries. Dr. Kumar has been a consultant to the World Bank, ADB, and UNDP, among others. He serves on numerous government committees and expert groups and on the Governing Boards of the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva, and the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies, Dhaka. Dr. Kumar received his Ph.D. from the Delhi School of Economics. His most recent publications include Towards an Asian Economic Community: Vision of a New Asia (editor, 2005), Protecting Foreign Investment: Implications of a WTO Regime and Policy Options (co-author, 2003), and Globalization and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment (2002).

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About the Discussants

Dr. Ed Lincoln is Senior Fellow for Asia and Economic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and Project Director of the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Japan. An expert on the Japanese economy and U.S. economic relations with Japan and Asia, he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Special Economic Advisor to Ambassador Walter Mondale at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. Dr. Lincoln received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the author of Arthritic Japan: the Slow Pace of Economic Reform (2001) and several other books. He writes a regular column for Newsweek Japan, and his articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, The Brookings Review, and elsewhere.

Dr. Catherine Mann is Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics. Previously, she was Assistant Director of the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an international economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and advisor to the chief economist at the World Bank. She was also Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University for ten years, and taught for two years at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Mann received a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She co-authored The New Economy and APEC (2001), Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer (2000) and Is the U.S Trade Deficit Sustainable? (1999). .

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About the Moderator

Dr. Walter Andersen is Associate Director of South Asia Studies and Professor of South Asian Studies at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was Chief of the U.S. Department of State’s South Asia Division in the Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia. Dr. Andersen was also Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador in New Delhi from 1988-91, among other key positions. He has taught at the University of Chicago and the College of Wooster. Dr. Andersen earned a B.S. from Concordia College and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Brotherhood in Saffron (1987), as well as an extensive number of journal articles and chapters in books analyzing Indian domestic politics and the international politics of South Asia.

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