In consultation with the National Advisory Committee, the conference program will be developed to: 1) highlight the significant impacts of Title VI programs in the United States over the past 50 years; 2) demonstrate the pressing need for Title VI programs given future and current needs; and, 3) address future directions of Title VI programs. Presenters at the conference will include invited keynote speakers to be determined in consultation with the National Advisory Committee. In addition, concurrent breakout session panels will include speakers solicited in a "Call for Proposals."
Dr. Jeong is an assistant professor of economics at Vanderbilt University. He will present "Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth." This paper addresses an interesting question in economic development, the nature of the transition to sustained economic growth. He proposes and analyzes a new growth model that is able to generate a gradual transition to sustained growth. He then estimates key model parameters using data from Thailand's economic transition of 1976-1996, and finally shows that model simulations replicate well Thailand's economic transition.
