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Gietel-Basten on rising demographic challenges to the Greater Bay Area
Earlier this year, Beijing set out its “innovation driven and reform led” vision for the Greater Bay Area (GBA), a network of nine cities in Guangdong, plus Hong Kong and Macao. However, in order to seize the opportunities opening up in the GBA, fresh and imaginative approaches will need to be taken to ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2019/gietel-basten-demographic-challenges-gba-innovative-policy
The Changing Nature of Work -- Launch of the World Development Report 2019
Download the World Development Report in Chinese here.  Download the World Development Report in English here.   Live Broadcast Event Summary In October 2018, HKUST IEMS hosted the launch of the 2019 World Development Report (WDR) titled “The Changing Nature of Work” at HKUST Business ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/talk/2018/launch-of-the-world-development-report-2019
Zweig Identifies Three Obstacles To Bringing Mobile Talents Back to China on a CCG Forum
The 4th Annual China and Globalization Forum hosted by CCG (Center for China and Globalization) was held at Beijing Yintai Centre on May 20. David Zweig, IEMS Faculty Associate, shared his views with the participants of the obstacles of introducing mobile talents in China. In his speech, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2018/zweig-the-obstacles-of-introducing-mobile-talents-in-china
The Best Is yet to Come: State Programs, Institutional Culture and Reverse Migration of High-Level Talent to China
Key insights In an IEMS Academic Seminar, David Zweig explains how China is hard-pressed to fulfill its pledge of becoming an innovative technological leader by 2020. With many of the nation’s best academics emigrating abroad, the Chinese government has launched almost a dozen programs targeting top Chinese ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2017/zweig-state-programs-institutional-culture-and-reverse-migration-of-high-level-talent-to-china-haigui
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/giles-the-great-proletarian-cultural-revolution-disruptions-to-education-and-the-returns-to-schooling-in-urban-china
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