本学期发展经济学workshop第一次讲座，欢迎参加 时间：2月26日（周三）下午2:00-3:30
地点：北京大学国家发展研究院朗润园 万众楼小教室
主讲人：Akio Hosono (Senior Research Advisor), JICA Research Institute
主持人：林毅夫             

Title: New Structural Economics and Economic Transformation: Lessons of Five Outstanding Cases
Abstract: 
Industrial development, especially industrial structure up-grading and diversification, is considered essential for economic transformation and sustained growth. The objective of this paper is to obtain insights into how crucial factors for industrial development, such as accumulation of knowledge and capabilities, technological innovation, infrastructure, institutions, interact in practice, focusing on several outstanding cases of industrial development, which produced a remarkable economic transformation. In these cases, different factors including investment in infrastructure, technological breakthrough, as well as external factors, triggered the economic transformation, but it could not have happened without continuous accumulation of capabilities and knowledge through learning. In all cases, effective institutions accomplished the role of facilitator or catalyzer of transformation.