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CPE and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) co-organise the MTI-CSC Economics Speaker Series, which features lectures, seminars and roundtable discussions with thought leaders and experts in economics

Calendar of Events for 2010
Date/Venue Event Contact
1st run:
15 November to
16 November 2010

2nd run:
18 November to
19 November 2010

Workshop on "Behavioural Economics and Application to Public Policy"

Trainer:
Professor Jack Knetsch
Emeritus Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University Senior Visiting Fellow, Civil Service College

 
2 to 10 November 2010
Civil Service College,
Seminar Room 1
4th Economics for Policy Analysts Programme  
22 October 2010
0900-1730
Grand Ballroom,
Grand Hyatt Singapore
Singapore Economic Policy Forum 2010 Webpage
25 August 2010
1500-1700
URA Function Hall

27 August
2010 1600-1730
Civil Service College, Seminar Room 2

MTI-CSC Lecture on "Productivity, Employee Motivation and Labour Market Incentives: What can Government Policy Do?"

CSC-SCAPE Lecture on "Using Economics to Evaluate Hard Policy Questions: What the Dismal Science has to Offer"

Speaker:
Professor Edward Lazear
Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics at Stanford University; Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; and Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (2006 to 2009)

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23 August 2010
1630-1800
NUS, LT13
"Emergence of Laboratory Experimental Methods in Economics: Basic Science, Policy Design and Implementation"

Speaker:
Speaker: Professor Charles R. Plott
California Institute of Technology

 
17 August 2010
0900-1200
Civil Service College Auditorium
MTI-CSC Lecture on "Bossonomics: Can Management Really Raise Productivity?"

Speaker:
Professor John van Reenen
Director, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics (LSE)

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17 August 2010
0900-1200
Ballroom 3,
Orchard Hotel
IPS-CSC Forum on "Enhancing Public Service Through Policy Automation" Webpage
2 to 3 August 2010
Civil Service College,
Seminar Room 1
Energy and Climate Policy Programme  
30 July 2010
1530-1730,
Civil Service College
Saffron Room
CSC China Lecture on "China’s Economic Reforms: Key Priorities and Critical Challenges Ahead"

Speakers:
Dr Edwin Lim
Director, China Economic Research and Advisory Programme

Professor Paul Romer
Senior Fellow, Centre for International Development, Stanford University and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development

 
23 July 2010
Civil Service College, Heng Mui Keng Seminar Room
Stats for Bureaucrats – Statistics 101 for Policymakers  
5-8 July 2010
Civil Service College, Heng Mui Keng Seminar Room
Making Better Policy Decisions: Finding Out What Works Through Randomised Evaluations  
30 June to 7 July 2010
Civil Service College, Seminar Room 1
3rd Economics for Policy Analysts Programme
(Formerly known as Economics for Policymakers Programme)
 
5 July 2010 0930-1130
Civil Service College Auditorium
CSC China Lectures on "US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Cooperation or Confrontation?"

Speaker:
Professor Kenneth Lieberthal
Director, John L. Thornton China Center Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution

 
10 May 2010
1500-1700
Room 701, NTUC Centre @ One Marina Boulevard
CSC-ESS-ISEAS Lecture and Book Launch "Nowhere to Hide: The Great Financial Crisis and Challenges for Asia"

Speaker:
Dr Michael Lim Mah-Hui
Senior Fellow at the Social-Economic and Environment Research Institute (SERI) in Penang, Malaysia

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18 March 2010
0900-1730
Civil Service College
Saffron Room
Stats for Bureaucrats – Statistics 101 for Policymakers  
5 March 2010
1500-1630
Auditorium
MAS Building
CSC-IBF Lecture on "The 2008/09 Credit Crisis: An Asian Regulator's Perspective"

Speaker:
Datuk Andrew Sheng
Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission

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4 March 2010
1200-1345
Room 3.1
Manasseh Meyer building, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
CSC-CAG Lecture on "Reframing the Climate Change Narrative"

Speakers:
Prof Arvind Subramanian
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development; Senior Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Mr Um Woochong
Deputy Director General, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank

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25 January 2010
0930-1130
Civil Service College Auditorium
MTI-CSC Lecture on "What works - Flipcharts, (Micro)Finance, Fertilizers or Female Leaders? Changing Lives through Better Public Policy"

Speaker:
Abhijit Banerjee
Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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18 January 2010
1530-1730
Civil Service College Auditorium
CSC China Lectures on "China's Economic Trajectory: Past, Present, Future"

Speakers:
Professor Huang Yasheng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Wang Gungwu
Chairman of East Asian Institute

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