Project Overview

The Economic Development Research Network, co-sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and CIGI, was created to identify and support a new generation of young researchers working on poverty and distribution issues in China. The aim of the Network is to cooperate with young Chinese scholars to explore new analytical approaches to poverty research in order to better use existing poverty survey data.

The Network was launched in the summer of 2005 under the title The Young China Scholars Poverty Research Network. It is coordinated by Li Shi (Beijing Normal University, China) and John Whalley (University of Western Ontario and CIGI, Canada).

There are fifteen mentors offering advice and instruction to young scholars on their research. All Network members meet annually providing young scholars the opportunity to present their research findings.The Network also organizes a series of seminars held at the Beijing Normal University.

The Network has provided financial assistance to more than thirty young Chinese researchers whose project work is guided by senior network members. All papers are cited here and are free to download. Each of the young scholars presents an initial proposal for his or her research to a network meeting, receives comments and feedback and subsequent mentoring for the further development of his or her work. The young researchers are given opportunities to interact with established scholars at feature presentations as well as policy debriefings and research direction discussions. The Network is centered on an organizing committee that involves both senior and junior participant researchers from key institutions in China and non-Chinese researchers.

The most recent Network meeting was held in Beijing in April 2008. CIGI encourages paper submissions; for more information, please refer to the call for proposals.

Coordinators

• Li Shi, Beijing Normal University
• John Whalley, University of Western Ontario and CIGI Distinguished Fellow, Economic Governance

Mentors

• Manmohan Lal Agarwal, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Cai Fang, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, CASS
• Aldo Colussi, University of Western Ontario
• Jim Davies, University of Western Ontario
• John Knight, University of Oxford
• Li Shi, Beijing Normal University
• Terry Sicular, University of Western Ontario
• John Whalley, University of Western Ontario
• Wang Pingping, National Bureau of Statistics
• Wang Sangui, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
• Wu Guobao, Rural Development Institute, CASS
• Xin Xian, Chinese Agricultural University
• Yue Ximing, Renmin University of China
• Zhang Shunming, Xiamen University
• Zhu Ling, Institute of Economics, CASS

Researchers

• Deng Quheng, Institute of Economics, CASS
• Feng Jin, Fudan University
• Liu Xiaoyun, China Agricultural University
• Li Yingxing, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
• Lu Ming, Fudan University
• Luo Chuliang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
• Wang Meiyan, Institute of Labor and Population Economics, CASS
• Wang Yunfei, Shenyang Agricultural University
• Xing Chunbing, Beijing Normal University
• Yan Fang, National Bureau of Statistics
• Yang Ling, Xi'an Jiaotong University
• Yin Heng, Beijing Normal University
• Zhang Yuan, Fudan University

Representative for the Network and Project Contact

• Agata Antkiewicz, CIGI Senior Researcher