New research from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in China indicates Beijing is starting to be more open about its international aid programs. If so, this would mark a significant change from the past where the Chinese government was often criticized for its lack of transparency in how it disperses overseas development assistance.
Yukon Huang is a Senior Associate in the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Carnegie, he was the World Bank’s Country Director for China, based in Beijing, and earlier the World Bank’s Director for Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Huang’s research focuses on China’s economic and financial prospects and its global impact. He was the principal advisor for the joint Chinese Government-World Bank “China 2030” report. Huang has published widely on development issues affecting China and East Asia.
He is currently working on a book on why views differ so much on China’s economy. He is a featured commentator for the Financial Times on China and his articles are also seen frequently in other major media such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. He appears regularly on CCTV in China and other international outlets such as BBC, CNBC, and CNN.
Huang has a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a B.A. from Yale University.
Tesla Motors chief executive Elon Musk was mobbed like a pop star last year while introducing Chinese consumers to his U.S. company’s Model S electric car.
Amid the frenzy, the American billionaire-entrepreneur ambitiously predicted China would account for up to 35 percent of his car company’s global sales in 2014.
The prediction proved wrong. In fact, Tesla’s China sales were so disappointing that the company’s China division dismissed two chief executives within a few months of Musk’s visit in April.
Sharron Lovell speaks with Sim Chi Yin about crossing the lines between journalism and advocacy. Chi Yin recently published her four year story following a Chinese gold miner suffering with the lung disease silicosis, caused by years of inhaling coal dust.
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In rural northern China, the kang is the heart of the home. The two meter wide brick platforms, heated beneath by a coal, wood, straw, or corn cob fire, are hearth, family bed, and living room all rolled into one. Especially during the winter when fields are frozen and work can be scarce, families often spend the better part of the day on the kang, chatting, dining, and playing, before returning to sleep.
Hannah Ryder is a former Kenyan and British diplomat and economist with over 15 years of experience. She has recently founded Development Reimagined, a wholly foreign-owned enterprise based in Beijing, and she is also China Representative of ChinaAfrica Advisory. These two consulting firms provide strategic advice and practical support to Chinese and international organizations and stakeholders on issues from the Belt and Road Initiative, to Africa’s growth markets, development effectiveness, green growth and China’s foreign aid. Prior to this she led the United Nations Development Programme’s work with China to help it scale up and improve its cooperation with other developing countries, including in Africa. She writes for a range of publications including Project Syndicate and the Guardian, and in 2016 was nominated “New African Woman on the Rise.” She has contributed to a range of publications, most notably in 2006 she co-authored the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change.
On June 19, the University of Washington and elite Tsinghua University in Beijing announced a new, richly funded cooperative program to be based in Seattle and focused on a topic that has become a sore point in China: innovation.
