Self-healing ability, economic development and transformation: Theory and Empirics: Theory and Empirics

Author: Lin Yifu
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is another collection of essays by the author following "Institutions, Technology, and China's Agricultural Development" and "Revisiting Institutions, Technology, and China's Agricultural Development." The 19 essays in the book are theoretical and empirical articles that discuss issues such as the development performance of a country or region, corporate budget soft constraints, income distribution, financial structure, and economic transformation, from the perspectives of the factor endowment structure of an economy, government development strategies, and the self-capabilities of enterprises. These articles were written by the author and his collaborators over the past decade. This book is a crystallization of the author's reflections on economic development and transformation issues in China and other countries.
Lin Yifu is the Director of the National School of Development at Peking University, a Professor, and a Doctoral Supervisor. He earned his Master's degree in Economics from Peking University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1986. In 2004, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Orléans in France. His main teaching and research fields include agricultural economics, development economics, and China's economic reform. He has published numerous academic works and more than 100 papers in renowned domestic and international journals and has been awarded several important domestic and international honors.
He has previously served as the Deputy Director of the Development Research Institute under the National Development Research Center, the Deputy Director of the Development Research Institute under the National Development Research Center, the Deputy Minister of the Rural Department under the National Development Research Center, and a member of the National Committee of the Seventh to Tenth National People's Congress. Currently, he holds important social positions such as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Tianze Institute of Economics, an advisor to the World Bank, and a member of the editorial boards of several domestic and international academic journals. He is also an anonymous reviewer for more than ten overseas English-language journals.