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February 2009 Issue 1

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UPCOMING EVENTS
1. A Dialogue with Prof Linda Lim
   
  "How Should the Role of the Government in Singapore 's Economy Change?"
   
  Synopsis
 

"The Singapore economy is at critical juncture, facing the sharpest slow down is many decades. What is the appropriate role for government policy in response to this crisis? Beyond the crisis, Singapore faces other challenges. As other economies raise their productive capacity and compete more effectively with Singapore , are there aspects of the top down growth model in Singapore that need to change?"

Prof Linda Lim will be addressing these issues in her lecture and engage the audience in a dialogue on the policy options facing Singapore in the period ahead.

   
  About Prof Linda Lim
 
Linda Lim is Professor of Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan , where she is also Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She was a member of the executive committees of institutes such as the Center for International Business Education and Office of International Program; a faculty associate of the Center for Japanese Studies and the Center for the South Asian Studies. She has served as Associate Director of the International Institute; a board member of the Knight Wallace Journalism Fellow and a member of the President's China Task Force, all at the University.
 
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2. Singapore Economic Review Conference 2009
   
 

Following the success of the Singapore Economic Review Conferences in 2005 and 2007 (close to 350 economists from 40 countries attended), a third conference will be held on August 6-9, 2008.

The SER invites theoretical and empirical papers on ALL aspects of economics:

  • International Economics and International Finance
  • Macroeconomics
  • Banking and Financial Markets
  • Econometric Models and Applications
  • Public Economics
  • Population, Demography and Fertility
  • Energy, Environment and Resources
  • Transport Economics
  • Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • China , India and other Emerging Economies
  • Singapore and other ASEAN Economies
  • Asian Economies

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