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Dr. Yan WANG is Senior Economist and Program Leader of the Investment Climate team at The World Bank Institute, The World Bank. Her current responsibilities include managing several capacity building programs in the areas of regulatory reform, finance, and improving investment climate for private sector-led growth. Over the years, she has been working on macro and microeconomic analysis of globalization, trade and investment, capital flow volatility and growth. Her recent publications include “Foreign Bank Entry and Domestic Bank Performance: Evidence using Bank-level Data”; and “Measuring Downside Risk and Severity for Global Output”, and “Sources of China’s Economic Growth, 1952-99”.
She has received several awards including the SUN Yefang Award in Economics, and published extensively in academic journals and several books, including The Quality of Growth (2000, as the task manager and a major author), Managing Capital Flows in East Asia (1996), Modern Securities and Futures Markets(1993); Bank Management and Reforms (1995), and Investment (1998). She has contributed to several World Bank Country Reports, including China: Promoting Growth with Equity, Country Economic Memorandum 2003; and Several other CEMs. Before joining WBI, She was an economist in the Office of the East Asia Regional Vice President of the World Bank and participated in economic work and provided policy advice to governments of East Asian countries. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and taught economics as an assistant professor before joining the World Bank.
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