The speaker shares their personal journey as an interpreter and how their ability to engage the audience led to a surprising job opportunity. They also delve into the field of new structural economics and discuss the significance of qualitative differences in developed and developing countries.
Co-host Janet Bush talks with Justin Yifu Lin. Lin is dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics, dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and professor and honorary dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He served as chief economist at the World Bank from 2008 to 2012, and he actually took up his World Bank position after serving for 15 years as professor and founding director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:
- What is new structural economics?
- How can emerging economies catch up?
- Is globalization going into reverse?
- Will the economies of China and Asia maintain momentum?
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