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  • 2019-09-18
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We are all young economists-the World Youth Economic Forum


中英图文by Jennifer Xiong
剑桥高中2020届


General introduction


The world youth economic forum is designed for senior high schools’ students across the globe to address the most pressing economic issues of the modern day. Because I will study economics for my undergraduate degree, I decided to participate in this meaningful meeting to get an insight into how economics work in global issues.


耶鲁青年经济论坛是为来自全球各个地区的高中生设计的,给他们一个机会以学生自己的角度和现有的知识去解决当今最紧迫的经济问题。因为我会在下半年申请经济学,所以我在这个暑假参加了此次会议,了解经济学在全球问题上是如何运作的。


To sum up, it was a formal meeting like Model United Nations, everyone represented a country, discussing a global issue and maximising the benefits of your own country. I participated in the council of the economics of education and discovered the close relationship between investmentand labour market outcome.


总而言之,这次会议和模拟联合国的形式差不多,每个人都代表一个国家,讨论一个全球性的问题,并为所代表的国家谋求最大的利益。在此次会议中,我参加了教育经济学委员会,深入了解并讨论了投资和劳动力市场结果之间的密切关系。


Preparation before WYEF

对于WYEF的会前准备


The most important part of this conference was doing research before the conference which allowedme to build a firm foundation about key conceptions and economic prospect in different countries. I represented Finland throughout the economic forum. To be honest, I was not familiar with the education system in Finland, so I did tons of researches about the education system, labour productivity, employment rate, UN's Human Development Index, economic perspective and GDP per capita in Finland. With my endeavour, I finally gained the best position paper in WYEF.


这次会议的最重要的部分是在会议前做关于代表国家的经济状况和教育的研究:包括一些经济理论,教育体重以及国家综合经济状况。我代表芬兰参加整个经济论坛。在此次会议之前,我并不熟悉芬兰的教育体制,所以我对对芬兰的教育体制、劳动生产率、就业率、联合国的人力发展指数、经济前景和人均GDP进行了大量的研究。经过我坚持不懈的努力,我终于在本次经济论坛中获得了“最佳立场文件”。

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Lectures given by director from Yale University

来自耶鲁的大佬给我们上课


For economic aspect, director illustrated education production function, players of the economics of education and the influence of education in macroeconomics and microeconomics. Our director also analysed the global education market and global trends, allowing us to understand different economic policies adopt in different nations.


在经济方面,我们委员会的director主要向我们介绍了了教育和生产力的公式图像、教育经济学的参与者以及教育对宏观经济和微观经济的影响。我们的director还分析了全球教育市场和全球趋势,让我们了解了不同国家采取的不同经济政策。


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PICTURE:director(left) from Yale university gave lectures about economics of education, our assistance director(right) who is studying AS now and scored 8.5 in IELTS Speaking(respect!)

来自耶鲁大学的director(左边)给我们上了关于教育经济学的课程,还有我们优秀的助理小姐姐(右边)(跟我一个年级,雅思口语8.5大佬!!!献上我的膝盖)


Group activities and debates- which deepen our understanding about economics of education

小组活动&辩论-帮助我们更好地了解教育经济学


The most effective study method regard by professors from US is presentations and debate (although I do not think so!). Thanks for my effort in global perspective classes at school, it was not challenging for me and I could easily divide the task with my teammates. 


可能在歪果仁眼里最有效的学习方法就是做小组展示和辩论了(虽然我不这么认为!)。在此,我要感谢我在全球视野课上中所做的努力,这对我而言还是蛮容易的,我可以很轻松地和我的队友们一起分配任务。


Apart from that, I also used the academic knowledge of economics from my A-level study to analyse real situations in various countries. For debate, it was quite annoying. 


除此之外,我还利用了我在A-LEVEL经济课上所学的知识,对各国的实际情况进行了分析(包括供给需求图像和机会成本)。对于辩论,我可以说这有一点令人秃头。


Although I have experience of participating public forum debate before, I never tried to prepare one within 2 hours, completing all constructive speech, blocks and evidence. Moreover, most of my partners did not have experience of taking part in debate before and I had tried my best to compete with experienced opponents.


虽然我之前有参与美辩的经验,但我从未试图在2小时内准备一次辩论并且完成陈词立论,找到所有的证据。除此之外,我的大多数搭档以前都没有参加辩论的经验(暴风式哭泣),并且要面对对面非常有经验的对手。


Economic lecture given by vice present from Moody’s Investors services

经济学讲座-来自穆迪信用评级的副总裁


Through WYEF, I got an insight into the economic prospect in China in the macro perspective.


Although China has a stable economy and the overall outlook is unchanged, we still face some problems like declining exports contribute to economic slowdown despite policy support, contraction in shadow bank activity and large regional disparity. We also assessed different macro policies that our country adopted in recent years and policies influence including Made in China 2025, fiscal support to play a greater role though larger central transfers and short-term policies focus on growth and stability. I really understood the close relationship between politics, economics and finance.


通过WYEF,我从宏观角度了解了中国的经济前景。            


尽管中国经济稳定,但仍存在出口下降,经济增速放缓(尽管政策支持),影子银行活动萎缩,地区贫富差距较大等问题。我们还评估了近年来我国采取的各种宏观经济政策及其影响(包括中国制造2025、中央政府一系列的财政政策)。这次讲座让我了解到了我真的了解政治、经济和金融之间的密切关系。

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Picture3-economic lecture given by vice president from Moody’s Investors services

图三:来自穆迪信用评级的副总裁给我们上的经济课


Social activities

社交晚会&华尔兹


The most memorable parts in WYEFwas Waltz Ball and Social events. It was quite funny to see all directors dancing on the stage.


本次活动最令人印象深刻的要数华尔兹和社交晚会,特别是14个委员会的director都穿着睡衣跳舞!