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Briefs & Commentary

"Don't Revalue the Yuan Yet," Wall Street Journal Asia, 7 January 2010.  link

"The Big Savers: Households and Government," China Economic Quarterly, Quarter 4, 2009 (Vol. 13, Issue 4): 20-25.  download

"Economic Corridors for the Greater Mekong Subregion," EAI Background Brief No. 479, 15 September 2009 (Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore). download

"Explaining China's High Saving," EAI Background Brief No. 476, 10 September 2009 (Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore). download

“All Eyes on Xinjiang,” FEER.com, 9 July 2009.  download 

interview reported by Janis Foo, “China’s Stimulus Package Won’t Rebalance the Economy,” FEER.com, 16 February 2009.  download

“Geithner's Wrong on the Yuan,” Wall Street Journal Asia, 29 January 2009.  download 

“China’s Stimulus Will Work,” Wall Street Journal Asia, 12 November 2008.  download

"Don't Bet on the Yuan,” Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 171, No. 7 (September 2008): 23-26.  download 

with Lu Mai, “Social Equity in China,” Development Outreach (Washington DC: World Bank), February 2006.  download   

with Judith Banister, “Labour Demographics: Long Boom, Slow Bust,” China Economic Quarterly, Quarter 3, 2005 (Vol. 9, Issue 3):  20-22.  download

with Judith Banister, “China’s Demographic Window: The Boom and Bust in Prime-Age Workers,” EAI Background Brief No. 249, 18 July 2005  (Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore).

“The Currency:  A Tisket, a Tasket, a Band Not a Basket,” China Economic Quarterly, Quarter 2, 2005 (Vol. 9, Issue 2):  42-46.  download

“Making a Graceful Exit from a Currency Peg,” The Asian Wall Street Journal, 11 May 2005.  download

“China’s Path to Exchange Rate Flexibility,” EAI Background Brief No. 236, 4 April 2005 (Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore).

with Lu Mai, “Putting Farmers First: An End to China’s Agriculture Tax,” EAI Background Brief No. 231, 9 March 2005 (Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore).

“Keep China’s Currency Peg,” The Asian Wall Street Journal, 8 February 2005.  download

“China’s Currency Peg: Firm in the Eye of the Storm,” EAI Background Brief No. 223, 19 January 2005 (Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore).

“China’s Economic Presence in Asia and Its Peaceful Rise,” EAI Bulletin, Vol. 6, Issue 2, November 2004 (Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore).

with Zhang Jikang, “From Capital Flight to Speculative Influx: The Tidal Shift in China’s Balance of Payments,” EAI Background Brief No. 210, 30 September 2004 (Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore).

with Zhang Jikang, “Tracking Hot Money Flows into China,” EAI Background Brief No. 211, 30 September 2004 (Singapore: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore).