Danny Quah
Dean and Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Can the world develop without the Global North?
For the last eight decades, the principal model of successful economic development was one that focused on growing the domestic supply side while relying on external elastic demand. That model has become increasingly unavailable with the emergence of an as-yet incomplete multipolarity coupled with retreating multilateralism. Can the world develop successfully without the Global North? What measures are needed to make it happen? If cooperation between members of the Global South is needed, why will that be more readily forthcoming than cooperation with the Global North?
Speaker Bio
Danny Quah is Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. He works on world order, economic growth and development, and inequality and income mobility. In his research on world order, Quah analyses the supply and demand of international systems, contrasting the goals of the Great Powers and the needs of the global community. Quah's work on income mobility challenges conventional narratives on inequality, highlighting the importance of growth and the diversity of economic experiences. He seeks to help shape global economic and geopolitical discourse through academic research, public commentary, as a member of World Bank President's Economic Advisory Panel and other public commissions, and in advisory roles at World Economic Forum, UNDP, and government agencies and ministries.
After his AB from Princeton and PhD from Harvard, Quah served as Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT and then Professor of Economics and International Development at LSE. Quah is the author of “The Global Economy’s Shifting Centre of Gravity”.
