ADB-FLCDS Workshop on Urbanization and the Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle

DAY1

8:30-9:20

Session1: Opening

Welcome speech: Guanghua WAN / Ming LU (5minutes each)

Opening speech (20 minutes each)

(1) Sudhir Krishna (Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India)

(2) Chuncheng LIU (Governor of Chifeng City)

9:20-10:30

Session 2-1: Overview of Research on Urbanization in China and India

Chair: Ming LU

Kala SSridhar (Public Policy Research, Public Affairs Centre) and Om Mathur (NationalInstitute of Urban Affairs): Overview of Research on Urbanization in India

Om Mathur (National Institute ofUrban Affairs): Costs of Urbanization--Chinaand India;

Kala S. Sridhar (Public PolicyResearch, Public Affairs Centre): Asia’s urbanization: Causes and primacy

10:30-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-11:50

Session 2-2:Overview of Research on Urbanization in China and India

Ming LU 陆铭(Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Fudan University): Urbanization in China: What Do We Know?

Guanghua WAN (Asian Development Bank): Concept Presentation on China-India Urbanization Comparison

LUNCH

13:30-15:00

Session 3: Urbanization and Urban System

Chair: Kala S. Sridhar

Zhao CHEN 陈钊(Fudan University): The Determinants of the Size of Primary City:An International Comparison

Yuan ZHANG 章元(Fudan University): Agricultural Productivity and Urbanization: China vs India

Jianfeng WU 吴建峰(Fudan University): What drives the evolution of city size distribution in China? Evidence from the spatial shifts of manufacturing and service

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-17:15

Session 4: Wellbeing of Urban Development

Chair:Zhao CHEN

Surender Kumar (Delhi University):Relationship between Pollution and Urban Population Size

Siqi ZHENG 郑思齐(Tsinghua University): Blue Skies in China

Chunbing XING 邢春冰(Beijing Normal University): Education Expansion, Migration and Rural–Urban EducationGap: A Case Study on the Effect of University Expansion

Jie CHEN 陈杰 (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): Housing Poverty inPost-Reform Shanghai:Profiles and Decompositions

DINNER

DAY 2

8:30-10:30

Session 5: Poverty, Inequality, Wellbeing

Chair: Om Mathur

Arup Mitra (Institute of Economic Growth): Agglomeration Economies and Well-being

Yang TANG (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): What is the optimalrate of urbanization?——Faster growth v.s. less Inequality

Shihe FU 傅十和(Xiamen University): Alleviate Traffic Congestion and Air Pollution in Chinese Cities: Policies and Evaluations

Dan LIU 刘丹(Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): City Size and Income Inequality: Evidence from China

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

Roundtable Discussion on Future Work

Chair: Guanghua WAN

LUNCH

15:30-17:00

Urbanizationin China:Challenges and Policies (in Chinese)

Guanghua WAN, Xiaolu WANG（王小鲁）, Zhao CHEN and Ming LU