By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Shillong conducted a guest lecture for enthusiasts of the Chinese Economy on Thursday and Friday.
The Lecture was conducted by guest faculty – Dr Atanu Rakshit, Assistant Professor, Economics & Politics at the Washington and Lee University, Lexington. Dr Atanu holds a PhD in Economics, with areas of specialization being Econometrics and the Economies of China and India.
The lecture proved to be enlightening to the participants of the ‘PGPEx-Managing Business in India & China’ programme of IIM Shillong, who will soon be analyzing and taking up diverse projects on the Chinese economy and its various aspects.
The theme of the lecture was ‘The Economy of China’ and Dr Atanu addressed how a combination of China’s political system, along with the sectoral development, globalization, and resource transfers across geographic and economic space has shaped the Chinese economy.
The sessions were approached by examining the developments in China and other nations, and pursuing the implications of Chinese experience in the global economy.
The first session provided a brief historical overview of Chinese economy, broadly focusing on pre and post 1949 period, adding the lecture highlighted the unique nature of the Chinese socialist experiment and how some features of that experiment contributed to post-reform Chinese growth.
The other session discussed the impact of global ties in the origin and extension of current Chinese economic upsurge.
