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East Asia & Pacific is facing some great development challenges today: urbanization, protection of the environment, the need to find renewable energy sources and many others. This site wants to create a conversation around those important issues. More »

Evelyn Ng

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Pacific Islands

Note: Evelyn no longer works at the World Bank.

Evelyn Ng works in the World Bank office in Sydney and is the Research Analyst for the Pacific Island countries. A Malaysian-born Chinese and Australian national, Evelyn completed her Honours degree in Economics in the University of Queensland before joining the World Bank in 2005. Since then, she has worked on short policy notes and economic updates on the Pacific Islands and has been involved with temporary migration work in the region. More recently, she was involved with work on assessing the impact of higher food and fuel prices on the economies and households of Fiji, Tonga, and Kiribati. Known to her colleagues as Eve, she enjoys working with client governments as well as meeting people in villages and learning their ways of life.