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Yan Wang
OccupationsEconomist, academic, and author
Academic background
EducationPh.D.
Alma materCornell University
Academic work
InstitutionsBoston University Global Development Policy Center

Yan Wang is an economist, academic, and author. She is a senior academic researcher at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. Her research has focused on economic development, structural transformation, and global development policy.

Education and career

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Wang completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University[1] and began her career as an assistant professor. She joined the World Bank Group in 1993 as an economist in the East Asia and Pacific Vice Presidency (EAPVP) and worked as a senior economist in the Growth and Competitiveness Unit. Later, she was employed as a task team leader (TTL) for the Investment Climate Program.[2] She worked on South-South experience-sharing initiatives that culminated in the Global Conference on 'Scaling Up Poverty Reduction' in Shanghai in 2004.[3] She was appointed as the coordinator of the OECD-DAC and China Study Group from 2009 to 2011.[4] After retiring from the World Bank, she taught at the George Washington University School of Business between 2013 and 2018.[1] She is a senior academic researcher with the Global China Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and a member of the Prominent Expert Group appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) process.[4]

Research

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Wang's research has focused on development finance, international development cooperation, and the political economy of growth in the Global South. She highlighted the influence of concentrated state ownership on corporate governance,[5] analyzed drivers of dynamic economic growth,[6] and worked the influence of economy-wide policies on investment project performance.[7] In other research, she examined how structural changes in China shaped investment activity,[8] studied the role of patient capital in infrastructure financing,[9] and analyzed the role of trade, aid, and investment in development finance.[10]

Another strand of Wang's has work included China's overseas economic engagement, including infrastructure-led development[11] and debt sustainability and governance.[12] Within the framework of New Structural Economics, she argued that reducing transaction costs enabled countries to realize their latent comparative advantage.[13]

Works

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In 2000, Wang co-authored The Quality of Growth which argued that economic development should be judged not only by increases in GDP, but also by other metrics. Sumble Sharif called the a book a "useful source of information for development analysts and government agencies in policy matters." Along with Justin Yifu Lin, Wang coauthored a book titled Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation, in which she discussed reframing development aid as structural transformation through South-South cooperation based on comparative advantage.[14] Veysel Tekdal defined it as "well-positioned" work that could "influence ongoing discussions on development cooperation". Whereas he highlighted that the book only briefly addresses criticisms of Chinese financing, and that a more in-depth discussion would have improved the book's overall balance.[15] Youngwan Kim described it as a "well-written and worth reading" book. However, he also noted that "the book does not provide any systematic evidence of each party's gain and loss from development cooperation".[16]

Bibliography

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Selected books

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  • Thomas, Vinod; Dailami, Mansoor; Dhareshwar, Ashok; Kaufmann, Daniel; Kishor, Nalin; López, Ramón E.; Wang, Yan (1999). The Quality of Growth. Ekistics.
  • Thomas, Vinod; Wang, Yan; Fan, Xibo (2001). Measuring Education Inequality: Gini Coefficients of Education. World Bank Publications.
  • Wang, Xiaolin; Wang, Limin; Wang, Yan (2014). The Quality of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China. ISBN 9783642363467.
  • Lin, Justin Yifu; Wang, Yan (2017). Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316597354.

Selected articles

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  • Xu, Xiaonian; Wang, Yan (1999). "Ownership Structure and Corporate Governance in Chinese Stock Companies". China Economic Review. 10 (1): 75–98. doi:10.1016/S1043-951X(99)00006-1.
  • Wang, Yan; Yao, Yudong (2003). "Sources of China's Economic Growth 1952–1999: Incorporating Human Capital Accumulation". China Economic Review. 14 (1): 32–52. doi:10.1016/S1043-951X(02)00084-6.

References

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  1. 1 2 "Consultant at the World Bank and non-resident Senior Visiting Fellow at Boston University". Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Retrieved May 4, 2026.
  2. ↑ "Yan Wang". World Bank Blogs. Retrieved May 4, 2026.
  3. ↑ "China's International Poverty Reduction Center as a Platform for South-South Learning". Open Knowledge World Bank. Retrieved July 8, 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Yan Wang". BU Global Development Policy Centre. Retrieved May 19, 2026.
  5. ↑ Su, Yiyi; Xu, Dean; Phan, Phillip H. (2008). "Principal—Principal Conflict in the Governance of the Chinese Public Corporation". Management and Organization Review. 4 (1): 19. doi:10.1111/j.1740-8784.2007.00090.x. ISSN 1740-8776.
  6. ↑ Fontana, Marzia; Byambasuren, Binderiya; Estrades, Carmen (2019). "Applied modelling of gender equitable macro-policies and care provision: the contribution of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models" (PDF). .: 30.
  7. ↑ Greßer, Christina; Stadelmann, David (2020). "Evaluating Water- and Health-related Development Projects: A Cross-project and Micro-based Approach". The Journal of Development Studies: 5. doi:10.1080/00220388.2020.1849621.
  8. ↑ Yang, Ruilin; Bathelt, Harald (2022). "China's outward investment activity: Ambiguous findings in the literature and empirical trends in greenfield investments". Growth and Change. 53 (1): 8. doi:10.1111/grow.12586.
  9. ↑ Johnston, Lauren A. (2019). "The Belt and Road Initiative : What is in it for China?". Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies. 6 (1): 47. doi:10.1002/app5.265.
  10. ↑ Liu, Hongsong; Xu, Yue; Fan, Xinzhu (2020). "Development finance with Chinese characteristics: financing the Belt and Road Initiative". Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional. 63 (2): 5,7. doi:10.1590/0034-7329202000208.
  11. ↑ Adunbi, Omolade; Stein, Howard (2019). "The Political Economy of China's Investment in Nigeria: Prometheus or Leviathan?". China-Africa and an Economic Transformation: 3. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198830504.003.0010.
  12. ↑ Itotup, Brian (2025). "Balancing Debt Sustainability with Infrastructure Needs: Policy and Governance Perspectives from Africa". Nile University of Nigeria: 5. doi:10.2139/ssrn.5950594.
  13. ↑ Calabrese, Linda; Jenkins, Rhys; Lombardozzi, Lorena (2024). "The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation". The European Journal of Development Research. 36: 533. doi:10.1057/s41287-024-00644-x.
  14. ↑ "Going beyond aid: development cooperation for structural transformation". WorldCat. Retrieved April 28, 2026.
  15. ↑ Tekdal, Veysel (2022). "Commissioned Book Review". Sage Journals. 20: NP2. doi:10.1177/14789299211030773.
  16. ↑ Kim, Youngwan (2019). "Review of Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation". International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. 19 (1): 183. doi:10.2307/26641384. ISSN 1470-482X.
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