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Rhodes Forum 2011
October 6-10
Book presentations:
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"Strategies of economic development"
The book by Vladimir Popov published in Russianwith a preface by Jomo K.S. elaborates National Development Strategies for the so-called transition economies of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and considers how Russia and other post-communist states could have benefited from the experiences of developing countries with alternative approaches to macroeconomics, growth, finance, trade, industrial policy (investment and technology promotion), state owned enterprise (SOE) reform and social policy. It is also argued that lessons of international significance can be derived from the Russian transition experience, which in many senses became the extreme experiment with wide scale deregulation, privatization, government downsizing and abrupt opening up a previously closed economy. |
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Book "Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World" by Prof. Join Grzegorz W. Kolodko, 2011 (English language.)
Book “Russia: the Challenges of Transformations” by Piotr Dutkiewicz and Dmitri Trenin, 2011 (English language)
The World Economic and Social Survey 2011: The Great Green Technological Transformation, UNDESA (Russian/English language)
Possible Futures Book Series (3 volumes) Ed. by Craig Calhoun, 2011 (English language)
Calendar World Public Forum ”Dialogue of Civilizations”, 2012 (English language)
Book “Dialogue: Dialogistics as a Science of the Destiny of the Mankind and the World in the Context of the Global Changes” by Kochetov Ernest, 2011 (Russian language)
Book “Catch-up Development and What it is Catching up with: A Search for Conceptualization” by I. Zvagelskaya, 2011 (Russian language)
Book "International Economic Contacts in the History of the East" by Alexander Petrov, 2010 (Russian language)
Photo album “In Memoriam Jagdish Chandra Kapur”, 2011 (English language)
China Soong Ching Ling Foundation Presentation will be held on October the 9th from 12.00 till 13.30 in the “Leros”:
Soong Ching Ling, late Honorary President of the People’s Republic of China, was born on January 27, 1893 in Shanghai.After graduating from the Wesleyan College for Women in the United States in 1913, she worked for Dr. Sun Yatsen, to whom she later married, and devoted herself to the cause of democratic revolution in China. During the long years of the Northern Expedition, the War of Resistance against Japan and the War of Liberation, she made indelible contribution to the triumph of China’s democratic revolution, its fight against foreign invasion and the founding the People’s Republic of China.
After the founding of new China, as an important leader of the country, Soong Ching Ling made sustained efforts in her work on domestic and foreign affairs for world peace, social progress,people’s happiness, international friendship, enhanced understanding and exchanges between people of different lands, rights of women and children, charity in China as well as ethnic unity and reunification of the country. Her outstanding contribution had won her extensive respect and she is considered one of the greatest women of the 20th century.
On May 29, 1981, Soong Ching Ling passed away from illness in Beijing. To honor her memory, the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation was established in Beijing on May 29,1982,a year later, directly at the initiative of and with support from senior State leaders including Deng Xiaoping, Liao Chengzhi and Kang Keqing.
Since its first day, the Foundation remains committed to the aims, tasks and responsibilities stipulated by its Charter, the nature of a People’s organization and a public welfare and charity institution and its working principle of serving the country, the society and the younger generation of China. With support and assistance from friendly organizations and enthusiastic supporters both from home and abroad,the Foundation has carried out its work with remarkable effectiveness and has generated good social impact.