Yan Wang 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 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 Sun Yefang Award in Economics.
Having retired from the World Bank, her recent research has extended beyond her interests developed during her career at the Bank, covering development 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.
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Academic Publications
Green Natural Capital, the Environmental Kuznets Curve and Development Financing in the Global South, with Yinyin Xu, iScience Vol 27, issue 5, 109562, May 17, 2024.
Direct Impacts and Spatial Spillovers of Chinese Infrastructure Projects on Economic Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa. With Yinyin Xu, GCI Working Paper 036. Boston University Global Development Policy Center.
China and Africa: A New Narrative on Debt Sustainability and Infrastructure Financing, with Yinyin Xu. Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development, 7(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.24294/jipd.v7i1.2181
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, Vol 28 No.4 p. 26-50. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cwe.12340
Green Transformation in China: Structures of Endowment, Investment and employment, with Hefeng Tong and Jiajun Xu (May 2020). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 54 (2020) 173-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.04.005
The New Structural Economics: Patient Capital as a Comparative Advantage, with Justin Lin (Feb 20, 2017). Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development (2017) Volume 1 Issue 1, pp.4-23. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2989833
Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation, with Justin Yifu Lin, Cambridge University Press, January 2017 www.cambridge.org/9781316607152, and the Chinese Version 《超越发展援助》by Peking University Publisher, September 2016.