Danny Quah
Economics Department

QUICK INFORMATION [Photo, by Ng Wei-Li from 2008.05.26 LSE Malaysia Alumni lecture] I am Professor of Economics at the LSE and Co-Director LSE Global Governance. I am Council Member on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council. I serve on the Steering Committee of the Abu Dhabi Economics Research Agency (ADERA) and the Editorial Boards of East Asian Policy, Journal of Economic Growth, and the Journal of Global Policy, and am a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances. At LSE I am also Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and Chair of the Board of the LSE-PKU Summer School. For January and February 2010, I am Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor in the Economics Department at the National University of Singapore. Academic CV [2009.10] | 2-page version [2009.04] Research: Economic growth. Income distribution and inequality. Global economy. Technology. Teaching: Macroeconomics. Global Economy. Other: Taekwon-do CONTACT BY EMAIL

OTHER PLACES I UPDATE: | | Youtube | | | | Recent items: 2009.12.28 The Collapsed Global Economy 2009: A Year That Wasn't The EDGE Malaysia Issue 787, 28 December 2009 Special Focus 2009.10.21 "The Shifting Distribution of Global Economic Activity" The configuration of economic activity across nations helps determine explicit and implicit systems of global governance: the international financial architecture, patterns of cross-country trade, global capital flows, and, not least, effective global policy-making. But what is known of the dynamics in that global landscape of economic activity? This paper provides an empirical assessment of the hypothesis that the world's spatial distribution of economic activity is secularly drifting from its 20th-century moorings. By considering a range of indicators---the shift in the world's economic centre of gravity, the dynamics of global poverty, decoupling and the emergence of cross-country trade clusters, and the cross-geography relative contribution to world economic growth---this paper quantifies a profound ongoing eastwards trend in global economic activity. [Complete version available soon; only incomplete draft for now.] 2009.07.17 Blog: Time to Save the World Economy through the Sheer Weight of Numbers [also on 2009.08.01 RGE Monitor Global Macro, Emerging Markets, Asia EconoMonitor] 2009.05.28 Blog: One Quick Look at the World's Shifting Economic Centre of Gravity 2009.03 LSE IDEAS Special Report: The World Crisis (with Michael Cox, Howard Davies, David Held, and Kevin Young) 2009.03.23 Rebalancing the global economy The EDGE Malaysia Issue 747 Economics Watch 2009.03.16 What should the G-20 do? The EDGE Malaysia Issue 746 Cover Story 2008.11.16 Blog: Where in the World is Asian Thrift and the Global Savings Glut? [Also entries on RGE Monitor Global Macro and Asia; and 2008.12.03++ discussion FT Economists' Forum: "Global Imbalances threaten the Survival of Liberal Trade" (by Martin Wolf)] [Earlier posts...]

MY TEACHING: Office hours Fridays 3:30pm-5:30pm Michaelmas weeks 1-6 (I am on leave and generally out of the country otherwise) Ec413 - Macroeconomics for MSc (Fall term 2009) [BBC R4 Analysis Programme 02 November 2009 - The Economists' New Clothes] Ec402 - Econometrics for MSc (Spring term 2010) LSE Executive Summer School - Business in the World Economy (London, June 2009; co-taught with Saul Estrin) CSS - Ec204 The Global Economy (Beijing, August 2009) [Photos] (2007.07.13) Being part of LSE's graduation in the brilliant London summer sunshine. MY RECENT WRITINGS, WITH MATHEMATICS: 21 October 2009 The Shifting Distribution of Global Economic Activity Incomplete. PDF (14 pages, 695Kb) 14 October 2008 Life in unequal growing economies. (Technical manuscript) Incomplete, very rough draft PDF (49 pages, 1.27Mb) 13 October 2008 Post-1990s East Asian Economic Growth PDF (29 pages, 616Kb) April 2007 Growth and distribution. Technical manuscript. Incomplete, very rough draft PDF (139 pages, 608Kb) [More]... [The online CV also contains clickable links to older papers.] MARTIAL ARTS: I have blogged about martial arts elsewhere. So here are just some videos and photographs. (2008.02.05) I'm doing a jump spinning hook kick, with Maria Gratsova holding the board. We were raising money at auction for the LSE Development Society. (2007.05.31) I'm doing a jump spinning back kick. This was at one of the clubs where I train. (2007.09.08) Sparring against my instructor: I'm going to end up missing on my jump spinning back kick. And, a split second later, he will hook kick me in the head. (2008.02.23) Once again, Maria Gratsova and I were raising money, this time at LSE's Malaysian-Singaporean Students Night. I'm doing a high-section jump spinning back kick. (2008.04) One of the nice things about being a blackbelt in taekwon-do is getting to take photographs like this one. My instructor (and I) and others at my club were awarded higher-dan blackbelts at the April grading.

MY MOST RECENT ACTIVITY: 12 February 2010 The Collapsed Global Economy: Asia in the 2008 GFC Lecture Theatre 13, NUS Business School, 1600h-1730h 03 February 2010 Growth and Development in the Global Economy: Runup to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis [Poster] Raffles Institution Junior College, Singapore, 1400h-1600h 05 November 2009 CIBL Lecture: China in the Global Economic Crisis | [Presentation 3/page pdf] | [mp3 podcast] Old Theatre, LSE, 1830h-2000h 22 October 2009 ECPR/LSE Public Lecture Roundtable: A Year after the Collapse of Lehmans: Where does global capitalism go now? | [mp3 podcast] | [video] LSE and European Consortium of Political Research 'Capital Lecture Series' public debate: with Andrew Gamble and Will Hutton; chaired by Professor Michael Cox, International Relations Old Theatre, LSE. 1830h-2000h 20 August 2009 Chevening Lecture: China and the Global Economic Recovery The British Embassy, Beijing 11 July 2009 Progressive London Conference: The Global Economic Crisis The Rise of the East Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1 23 May 2009 Hay Festival of Literature LSE Lecture. With Howard Davies. Banks, Booms, and Busts: Where next for the global economy? The Guardian Hay Festival - Wales. Sony Screen. 1000h. Fourth day of the Festival | Abu Dhabi National 2009.06.02 18 May 2009 BBC World Service Business Daily Global Economic Imbalances "Mervyn King, UK's top central banker, warns about what he sees as a cause of the current crisis, the global economic imbalances between savers and spenders, he says we've done nothing to tackle them yet." [mp3] (also with Harvard's Richard Coooper) London 13 May 2009 Declining Hegemon? The US in a World of Crisis LSE IDEAS Roundtable with Professor Michael Cox, International Relations; chair Professor Lord William Wallace Old Theatre, LSE. 1830h-2000h [vodcast (scroll to date)] [podcast] 12 May 2009 The future belongs to India, not China (Intelligence Squared Debate) Speaking for the motion: Gurcharan Das, Deepak Lal, and Mark Tully; speaking against the motion: Lord Charles Powell, DQ, and Sir David Tang Royal Geographical Society, Ondaatje Theatre, London. 1845h-2030h [Samay Live 2009.05.13] 05 May 2009 Rising Asia in the World Crisis Panel discussion, with Athar Hussein and Chen Jian. Chair: Arne Westad Old Theatre, LSE. 1800h-1930h [podcast] 22 April 2009 Discuss "Imagining India" - Asia Research Centre Public Lecture by Nandan Nilekani Old Theatre, LSE. 1830h-2000h [vodcast (scroll to date)] [podcast] 02 April 2009 China Radio International - People in the Know Interview - G20 [online] | Long version [mp3] (8.8Mb, 25 mins) (with Prof. Sun Jie, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Beijing 01 April 2009 BBC World Service Business Daily interview - G20 [mp3] (3.4Mb, 4 mins) London 03 March 2009 What should the next G-20 meeting do? Panel discussion, with Michael Cox and Will Hutton. Chair: David Held Old Theatre, LSE. 1830h-2000h [DQ opening statement] [vodcast (scroll to date)] [podcast] 17 February 2009 The Global Economic Crisis - Meeting the Challenge Panel discussion, with Tim Besley, Francesco Caselli, and Chris Pissarides. Chair: Richard Layard Old Theatre, LSE. 1830h-2000h [DQ opening statement] [vodcast (scroll to date)] [podcast] 31 January 2009 China Development Forum: 2009, The Critical Year of China's Economy Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House LSE. 0915h-1800h 27 January 2009 LSE Asia Research Centre series: China - 30 Years of Reform "The Shifting Distribution of World Economic Activity: China and Global Imbalance" Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building LSE. 1830h-2000h [Slides (3/p) | animation] [vodcast (scroll to date)] [podcast] 14 January 2009 World Economy Asia Lecture "Will Asia Save the World?" Leverhulme Centre for Globalisation and Economic Policy Kuala Lumpur [Selected press reports: China Review 2009.01.22 | The Star Malaysia 2009.01.16] 13 January 2009 Goh Keng Swee Lecture "China and Global Imbalance" East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore Singapore Early January 2009 LSE Alumni events: Hong Kong Thursday 08 January 2009 | Kuala Lumpur Friday 09 January 2009 | Singapore Monday 12 January 2009 The Far East [Earlier posts...]

Oops, OK, this isn't martial arts. It's my animation of the world's growth and poverty over the last quarter century. I've written about this elsewhere [Life... | Post-1990s... | Growth and...]. The horizontal axis is per capita GDP measured in thousands of PPP constant (year-2005) US$, from World Development Indicators Online April 2008. The vertical axis is millions of people living at less than PPP constant (year-2005) US$1.25 a day, from the World Bank August 2008. Each bubble is scaled according to population; each bubble grows over time when population increases. The bubbles refer, respectively, to China; East Asia and the Pacific outside of China; Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Middle East and North Africa; India; South Asia outside of India; and Sub-Saharan Africa. For me the most notable features are two: first, the mad dash of the China bubble south-eastwards - higher incomes, lower poverty; second, the upwards percolation of the Sub-Saharan Africa bubble - no growth, ever higher poverty. (Thanks to Delger Enkhbayar for help with this picture.)

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