F&D profiles Justin Yifu Lin, the first World Bank Chief Economist from a developing or emerging economy At a reception earlier this year to mark the end of Justin Yifu Lin’s tenure as chief economist ...

Justin Lin Yifu is a professor of economics at Peking University and former chief economist at the World Bank. His theory of “new structural economics” – which advises governments of ...

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