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The Brookings Institution hosts: Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run Presentation: Dr. Angus Maddison

Event Description:

You are cordially invited to join Dr. Angus Maddison for a presentation and discussion of findings from the second edition of his widely acclaimed Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run, recently published by the Development Center of the OECD. 

Using purchasing power parity to convert yuan to dollars, Dr. Maddison finds that China accounted for 5 percent of world GDP in 1978, 15 percent in 2003 and that this share is likely to rise to 23 percent in 2030, overtaking U.S. GDP by 2015. 

Biographies:

Born in 1926 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, Angus Maddison is Emeritus Professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He was educated at Cambridge, McGill, and Johns Hopkins universities, before teaching at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His professional relationship with the OECD began even before the Organisation's birth. He was Head of the OEEC Economics Division from 1953 to 1962 when the organisation became the OECD. From 1963 to 1966, he was a Fellow of the newly created OECD Development Centre. He left the Organisation in order to undertake research for the Twentieth Century Fund and Harvard University's Development Advisory Service but, by 1971, Professor Maddison was back at the OECD as Head of the Central Analysis Division, a post he retained for seven years.

Mr. Maddison has been an advisor to the governments of Brazil, Ghana, Greece and Pakistan and has travelled widely in developing countries as part of his research interests. His major research interest today is the assessment of the forces affecting the economic growth performance of nations, with particular emphasis on quantitative analysis in historical and comparative perspectives.

Mr. Maddison is the author or co-author of 25 books and a great many articles in academic and financial journals.