Justin Yifu Lin
World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President
Justin Yifu Lin is World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics. In this capacity, Mr. Lin guides the Bank’s intellectual leadership and plays a key role in shaping the economic research agenda of the institution.
Building on a distinguished career as one of China’s leading economists, Mr. Lin is undertaking an ambitious research program that examines the industrialization of rapidly developing countries and sheds new light on the causes of lagging growth in poor regions.
He took up his World Bank position on June 2, 2008, after serving for 15 years as Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He will remain on leave from Peking University during his World Bank tenure.
Latest Posts:
- Le phénomène du « dragon chef de file » : une occasion pour les pays à faible revenu de combler leur retard
- L’Afrique, on y revient toujours
- Países de ingreso bajo resisten crisis gracias a efectos del grupo BRIC
- Grâce aux effets d’entraînement provenant des BRIC, les pays à faible revenu résistent à la crise
- Development economics thinks big but also gets practical—postcard from Paris
- L'économie du développement voit grand et devient pragmatique : Souvenirs de Paris
- Repenser l’économie du développement : du nouveau du côté de l’édition 2011 de la conférence ABCDE
- Doing Development Economics Differently -- Check out ABCDE 2011
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