Woo, Wing Thye

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WOO, Wing Thye

WOO, Wing Thye. American, b. 1954. Genres: Economics. Career: University of Maryland at College Park, lecturer in economics, 1982-84; University of California, Davis, professor of economics, head of Pacific Rim Studies Program at Institute of Governmental Affairs, 1987-95. Brookings Institution, research associate in economic studies, 1982-85; People's University of China, visiting professor, 1989; National Taiwan University, visiting professor, 1990; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, visiting research fellow, 1990; Harvard University, faculty associate of Harvard Institute for International Development, 1998-. U.S. Treasury, special adviser, 1997-98; consultant to governments of China, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Ukraine. Publications: (with B. Glassburner and A. Nasution) Macroeconomic Crisis and Long-Term Growth: The Case of Indonesia, 1965-1990, 1994; (with C. Heady and C. Wong) Economic Reform and Fiscal Management in China, 1995; (ed. with Sachs and S. Parker, and contrib) Economies in Transition: Asia and Europe, 1996. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Address: Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A. Online address: wtwoo@ucdavis.edu

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