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Yan Wang is a Senior Academic Researcher with the Global China Initiative at the Boston University <\/span>Global Development Policy Center and a member of the Prominent Expert Group appointed by the United Nations Secretary General for the FfD4 process. She also works as a consultant to the World Bank Group, and previously worked as Senior Economist and Team Leader at the World Bank for 20 years and served as Coordinator of the OECD-DAC and China Study Group for two years (2009-2011). She is the author or coauthor of four books and dozens of papers and country reports and has twice received the prestigious <\/span>Sun Yefang Award in Economics.<\/p>\n

Having retired from the World Bank, her recent research has extended beyond her interests developed during her career at the Bank, covering d<\/span>evelopment financing including but not limited to China-Africa cooperation, the spatial impact of Chinese investment in Africa, debt restructuring, green transformation and the quality of growth in the Global South countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Twitter\u00a0@ywang2005b<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Academic Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Green Natural Capital, the Environmental Kuznets Curve and Development Financing in the Global South<\/a>, with Yinyin Xu, iScience <\/em>Vol 27, issue 5, 109562, May 17, 2024.<\/p>\n

Direct Impacts and Spatial Spillovers of Chinese Infrastructure Projects on Economic Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/a> With Yinyin Xu, GCI Working Paper<\/em> 036. Boston University Global Development Policy Center.<\/p>\n

China and Africa: A New Narrative on Debt Sustainability and Infrastructure Financing, with Yinyin Xu. Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development<\/em>, 7<\/em>(1), Article 1. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24294\/jipd.v7i1.2181<\/a><\/p>\n

Seventy Years of Economic Development: A Review from the Angle of New Structural Economics, (July 2020) joint paper with Justin Yifu Lin, China and World Economy<\/em>, Vol 28 No.4 p. 26-50. https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/cwe.12340<\/a><\/p>\n

Green Transformation in China: Structures of Endowment, Investment and employment, with Hefeng Tong and Jiajun Xu (May 2020).\u00a0 Structural Change and Economic Dynamics,<\/em> 54 (2020) 173-185.\u00a0 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.strueco.2020.04.005<\/a><\/p>\n

The New Structural Economics: Patient Capital as a Comparative Advantage, with Justin Lin (Feb 20, 2017). Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development <\/em>(2017) Volume 1 Issue 1, pp.4-23. Available at SSRN:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2989833<\/a><\/p>\n

Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation, <\/em>with Justin Yifu Lin, Cambridge University Press, January 2017 www.cambridge.org\/9781316607152<\/a>, and the Chinese Version \u300a\u8d85\u8d8a\u53d1\u5c55\u63f4\u52a9\u300bby Peking University Publisher, September 2016.<\/p>\n

See more of Yan Wang’s work on her Google Scholar page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17868,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17868"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29944,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11558\/revisions\/29944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}