{"id":32174,"date":"2026-01-23T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=32174"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:32:26","slug":"yuning-zhang","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/profile\/yuning-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuning Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"p-pdf_iframe__page\" aria-label=\"Page 1\" data-page-number=\"1\">\n<div class=\"textLayer\" data-main-rotation=\"0\"><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">Yuning Zhang is a Global China Pre-doctoral Visiting Fellow at the Boston University Global <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">Development Policy Center and a doctoral candidate in Applied Economics at the School of <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">Business, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. Her research focuses on <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">development finance and sovereign debt, with a primary emphasis on China-Africa cooperation. <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">Her work encompasses both the macro-level construction of global governance systems and in-<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">depth analyses of specific issues such as sovereign debt sustainability, climate finance, and digital <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">economy development. Currently, she employs econometric methods, case studies, and policy <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">evaluations<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">to<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">systematically<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">examine<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">the<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">impact<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">of<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">Chinese<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">aid<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">on<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">the<\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><span role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\">socio-economic <\/span>development of recipient countries.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":25773,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32174"}],"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\/25773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32178,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/32174\/revisions\/32178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}