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Asia research Centre invites to a guest lecture by

Professor Christine Wong, Oxford University

on

Finance and public sector reform in China

Christine Wong is Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and Said Business School, and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Before joining Oxford University, she was the Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (2000 - 2007). She has worked in the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (Manila), and also undertaken numerous consultancies for the OECD, UNICEF, and DFID.

Christine's current research focuses on issues of public finance and public sector reform in China. She has published widely on economic reform, fiscal reform, rural industrialization, and the problems of central-local relations in China. Her most recent publication is Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality (co-edited with Vivienne Shue), Routledge, 2007. She has been co-author or joint author of several recent studies on fiscal policy published by the World Bank, including China: Public Services for Building the New Socialist Countryside (2007); China: Improving Rural Public Finance for the Harmonious Society (2007); Reforming Intergovernmental Finance in China: a Study of the Northeast (2007); and China: Deepening Public Service Unit Reform to Improve Service Delivery (2005). She was principal author of China: National Development and Subnational Finance, a Review of Provincial Expenditures (2002). She is also editor and principal author of two previous books on China's public finance: Financing Local Government in the People's Republic of China, Oxford University Press, 1997; and Fiscal Management and Economic Reform in the People's Republic of China (with Christopher Heady and Wing T. Woo), Oxford University Press, 1995, 1996.