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“Developing our Capabilities and the Singapore Core in Financial Services” – Speech by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of Monetary Authority of Singapore at the FICS Annual Conference 2012

Developing our Capabilities and the “Singapore Core” in Financial Services Speech by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance, Minister for Manpower, Chairman of Monetary Authority of Singapore Speech at the FICS Annual Conference 2012 Marriott Hotel, 22 May 2012 Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of MAS and Chairman of IBF, Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen 1 I am very happy … more..

L. JHA LECTURES: INDIA

Administrator — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:02:43 +0000

Lecture No.	Delivered by	Subject	Date
1.	Mr. Robin Leigh-Pemberton	Economic Liberalism, Central Banking and the Developing World	October 16, 1990
2.	Mr. Jacob A. Frenkel	The Strategy of Economic Adjustment	November 30, 1992
3.	Mr. Andrew Crockett	Capital Market Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities	February 20, 1995
4.	Mr. William J. McDonough	Strengthening the Financial Marketplace	December 5, 1996
5.	Mr. Rubens Ricupero	Globalisation, Hot Money and the Seach for Profitable Investment: Is the East Asian Crisis a Global Crisis?	July 17, 1998
6.	Dr. Donald T. Brash	Inflation Targeting: Is New Zealand’s Experience Relevant to Developing Countries?	June 17, 1999
7.	Prof. Willem H. Buiter	Targets, Instruments and Institutional Arrangements for an Effective Monetary Authority	October 16, 2000
8.	Prof. Martin Feldstein,	Budget Deficits and National Debt	January 12, 2004.
9.	Prof. Lawrence H. Summers	Reflections on Global Account Imbalances and Emerging Markets Reserve Accumulation	March 24, 2006
10.	Mr.Jean-Claude Trichet	The growing importance of emerging economies in the globalised world and its implications for the international financial architecture	November 26, 2007
11.	Prof. John Brian Taylor	Lessons from the Financial Crisis for Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets	February 24, 2010
12.	Prof. Maurice Obstfeld	Gross Financial Flows, Global Imbalances, and Crises	December 13, 2011

“ORIGINS OF THE CHINESE STATE”: PHILIP KUHN BOOK

Administrator — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:13:05 +0000

Origins of the Modern Chinese State

Philip A. Kuhn (Author)

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to secure a share of society’s wealth? In response to the changing demands of the age, this agenda has been expressed in changing language. Yet, because the underlying pattern remains recognizable, the modernization of the state in response to foreign aggression can be studied in longer perspective.

The author offers three concrete studies to illustrate the constitutional agenda in action: how the early nineteenth-century scholar-activist Wei Yuan confronted the relation between broadened political participation and authoritarian state power; how the reformist proposals of the influential scholar Feng Guifen were received by mainstream bureaucrats during the 1898 reform movement; and how fiscal problems of the late empire formed a backdrop to agricultural collectivization in the 1950s. In each case, the author presents the “modern” constitutional solution as only the most recent answer to old Chinese questions. The book concludes by describing the transformation of the constitutional agenda over the course of the modern period.

Review

“This is a work of the first importance, one that successfully attempts to reach both a specialist and a broader audience. . . . It not only offers new and provocative historiographic arguments, but also recasts the familiar outline of post-1800 Chinese history in consistently novel and refreshing terms. . . . Both audiences will be intrigued by its implications for contemporary Chinese politics.”—William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University

“Fluently argued and genuinely important, this work has value for specialists and generalists alike.”—David E. Kelley, Oberlin College

“Admirers of Kuhn’s own writings will find in this book a consummate summing up of decades of research in late imperial and twentieth-century Chinese history. The chapters move constantly back and forth, across the twentieth-century divide and over to European and American intellectual history, seamlessly meshing archival gems with insights from wenji, gazetteers, and other published sources.”—China Review International

“This is a small book but one packed with much erudition and insight. The Harvard historian, Philip Kuhn, is a master of his craft, filling page after page with the wisdom of his vast experience and expertise.”—Journal of Asian History

Product Details:

Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press
English edition
November 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0804742839
ISBN-13: 978-0804742832

BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS FEBRUARY 10 2012: FINANCE IN ASIA

Administrator — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:13:46 +0000

Central bankers’ speeches for 10 February now available‏

Press, Service (press@bis.org)

Fri 2/10/12

Central bankers’ speeches for 10 February 2011
now available on the BIS website

Yaseen Anwar: Role of financial institutions and capital markets in Pakistan’s economy

Kiyohiko G Nishimura: Asian markets at the crossroads

Mario Draghi: ECB press conference – introductory statement

Masaaki Shirakawa: Finance in Asia – banking business and capital markets

Zeti Akhtar Aziz: Asian market integration and financial innovation

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at:

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Communications

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Central bankers’ speeches for 10 February now available‏

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Fri 2/10/12

BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS NOVEMBER 3 AND NOVEMBER 7 2011: ASIA’S GLOBAL ROLE

Administrator — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:45:59 +0000

Central bankers’ speeches for 3 and 7 November now available‏

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Tue 11/08/11

Central bankers’ speeches for 7 November 2011

now available on the BIS website

Mario Draghi: ECB press conference – introductory statement

Daniel K Tarullo: The international agenda for financial regulation

José Manuel González-Páramo: The ECB and the sovereign debt crisis

Prasarn Trairatvorakul: The outlook for Thailand’s economy in the face of concerns about the slowing US recovery and Europe’s debt crisis

Central bankers’ speeches for 3 November 2011

now available on the BIS website

Josef Bonnici: Lessons from the recent past and the road ahead

Zeti Akhtar Aziz: Asia’s role as an important growth centre in the global economy

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at:

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Communications

Bank for International Settlements

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Tue 11/08/11

BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS AUGUST 16 AND AUGUST 18 2011: INDIA

Administrator — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:34:51 +0000

Central bankers’ speeches for 16 and 18 August now available‏

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Publications, Service (Publications@bis.org)

Fri 8/19/11

Central bankers’ speeches for 18 August 2011

now available on the BIS website

Mario Draghi: Tension and new alliances – the currency wars
Patrick Honohan: Good times and bad for a globalised economy – macroeconomic policy lessons from Ireland
Njuguna Ndung’u: Launch of the Reconstituted Market Leaders Forum
Deepak Mohanty: Changing inflation dynamics in India
Mario Draghi: Italy’s path towards stable growth

Central bankers’ speeches for 16 August 2011

now available on the BIS website

Deepak Mohanty: How does the Reserve Bank of India conduct its monetary policy?
Anand Sinha: Technology in banking – in pursuit of excellence
Seiji Nakamura: Japan’s monetary policy and developments in economic activity and prices
William C Dudley: Job creation in the region
Njuguna Ndung’u: Sustaining transformation and innovations
Yoshihisa Morimoto: Economic activity and prices in Japan and monetary policy

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

Bank for International Settlements

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Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Central bankers’ speeches for 16 and 18 August now available‏

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Publications, Service (Publications@bis.org)

Fri 8/19/11

BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS AUGUST 9 AND AUGUST 10 2011: JAPAN’S ECONOMY

Administrator — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:40:11 +0000

Central bankers’ speeches for 9 and 10 August now available‏

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Thu 8/11/11

Central bankers’ speeches for 10 August 2011

now available on the BIS website

Masaaki Shirakawa: Recent developments in Japan’s economy and the conduct of monetary policy

Alan Bollard: The role of banks in the economy – improving the performance of the New Zealand banking system after the global financial crisis

Central bankers’ speeches for 9 August 2011

now available on the BIS website

Jean-Claude Trichet: ECB press conference – introductory statement

K C Chakrabarty: Indian education system – issues and challenges

27 July

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Thu 8/11/11

ASPECTS OF OLD SHANGHAI

Administrator — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:30:03 +0000

Old Shanghai in the 20th century:

China’s first aeroplane – 1909

Shanghai Volunteer Corps

Anti-kidnapping Soc. – 1912

The Communist Party ‘s 1st congress

The 1927 Communist Purge

The Shanghai War, 1932

Anti-Japan demos, 1935

The Japanese War, 1937

August 14, 1937

Chungking Underground

Eat, Drink & be Merry …

The 2nd World War, 1941

Orgy of Revenge – 1945

Capone’s armoured car, 1945

“No immediate threat”

The end

Cartoons of the day
Periodicals of the day
Quotable Quotes of the day
Excerpts from books and novels

New additions:

The Chinese Mind – Arthur Ransome
Pott history of Shanghai 1928(13-16)
Nitespot Namecards
Shanghai society? Snobbish? 1915
Sir Chaloner Alabaster
Wedding of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling
Pott history of Shanghai 1928(8)

Contents:
Introduction
Places
People
Cultures
19th century
20th century
Reading room
Old Maps
Gallery
Library

Business
Administration

More:

East India Trade – the Swedish Connection

History of China

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BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS JULY 7 2011: INDIA

Administrator — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:38:50 +0000

Central bankers’ speeches for 7 July now available‏

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Fri 7/08/11

Central bankers’ speeches for 7 July 2011

now available on the BIS website

Subir Gokarn: Mutual funds and market development in India

Duvvuri Subbarao: Statistics in the world of the Reserve Bank of India

Masaaki Shirakawa: How to address tail risks

Deepak Mohanty: Statistics in the Reserve Bank of India

Subir Gokarn: Striking the balance between growth and inflation in India

All speeches from 1997 onwards are available from the BIS website at http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm.

Communications

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Fri 7/08/11