Professor Terry Sicular

Terry Sicular is a specialist on the Chinese economy. Her research combines economic analysis with knowledge of China’s history, political economy and institutions, and makes use of evidence from fieldwork, survey data, and primary Chinese source materials. Recent publications include the co-edited book Changing Trends in China’s Inequality (Oxford Univ. Press) and journal articles “Catching up with the West: Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class” (The China Journal) and “The Long-term Evolution of National Income Inequality and Rural Poverty in China” (China Economic Review).

She is a two-time recipient of the Sun Yefang Prize in Economic Science. Since 2000 she has been a lead member of the China Household Survey Project (CHIP), an international collaborative survey research project. She has served as consultant to governmental and non-governmental organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, and Asian Development Bank. She is Professor of Economics at Western University (Canada), an invited professor at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and an honorary guest professor at Beijing Normal University. Prior to joining Western University she held appointments at Stanford University and Harvard University. She is an alumna of Pomona College and received her doctorate in economics from Yale University.

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