CDS Insight

In this episode of CDS Insight, Professor Kerry Brown and Professor Xiang Biao continued the discussion on Real Estates Crackdown. We looked at whether Housing policy is the central path of Xi's political drive on real estate. In particular, if China's real estate-driven growth model is running out of steam, can green technology and a greener economy be the next growth engine.

In this episode of CDS Insight, we hosted a discussion featuring Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London; and Xiang Biao, Former Professor of Social Anthropology of St Hugh's College at the University of Oxford on the topic of "EDUCATION AND REAL ESTATES CRACKDOWN IN CHINA. In part I, on education crackdown, we looked at whether parental paranoia and venture capitalists not wanting to miss out on investment opportunities constitute reasons for tutoring in China becoming so popular. We then discussed how the crackdown accommodates birth policies and addresses China's looming demographic crisis to achieve 'Common prosperity', which President Xi's 14th 5-year plan underpins.

Note: This episode is conducted in Chinese.

In this episode of CDS Insight, Professor Yao Yang, Director of China Center for Economic Research and Dean of National School of Development at Peking University, evaluated implications of population-oriented policy movements in within the context of common prosperity.

In this episode of CDS Insight, Mr. Dejan Jakovljevic, CIO and the Director of Digitalization and Informatics Division at Food Agriculture Organization, United Nations, discussed the broad application of Blockchain Technology at FAO, including the current status and future outlook of its blockchain-based projects.

In this episode of CDS Insight, Professor Veerle Heyvaert, discussed the driving factors behind the failure of first wave of private climate litigations, as well as the main challenges caused by transnational regulations to law. Lastly, professor talked about the effect of Brexit on legislations in UK.

In this episode of CDS Insight, Professor Veerle Heyvaert, a Professor at LSE Law School and founding Editor-in-Chief of Transnational Environmental Law, discussed the revolution of Environmental Law over the past few decades and addressed challenges in terms of execution of legislations. What's more, she also commented about the differences between developed and developing nations and the role of environmental law in ESG investments.

In this episode of CDS Insight, Professor Hans Peter Lankes, visiting professor in practice at LSE Grantham Institute, former Vice President of Economics and Private Sector Development at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), discussed what actually differentiates impact investing and addressed some of the challenges of the current methodology. What's more, he also commented about the current impact investing outlook in China.

Geoffrey Yu, Senior EMEA Market Strategist at BNY Mellon, Former Head of UK Investment office at UBS, discussed implications and associated risks behind two eye-catching phrases, "transitory" and "substantial further progress", as described by the US Federal Reserve. What's more, he also dived into the intuition behind recent Chinese regulations and the PoBC monetary policy moves.