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Woo Wing Thye (Chinese 胡永泰) is a Malaysian-American economist. He is currently Professor of Economics at University of California, Davis and Director of the East Asia Program within The Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a member of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). Professor Woo recently took up the position of President of the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia in Malaysia and holds academic positions at the Penang Institute, the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing and Fudan University 〔http://www.econ.fudan.edu.cn/teacheracademician.php?pid=41〕 in Shanghai. Woo is an expert on East Asian economies〔http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2014/07/07/dinner-with-wing-thye-woo/〕〔http://www.lowyinstitute.org/news-and-media/audio/podcast-future-renminbi-wing-thye-woo-stephen-grenville〕〔http://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/wing-t--woo〕 particularly China, Malaysia and Indonesia. He has written extensively on the middle-income trap〔Wing Thye Woo (2011). "Understanding the Middle-Income Trap in Economic Development: The Case of Malaysia," invited World Economy Lecture delivered at the University of Nottingham, ''Globalisation and Economic Policy'' conference, Globalisation Trends and Cycles: The Asian Experiences, Malaysia, 13 January 2011; available at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gep/documents/lectures/world-economy-asia-lectures/world-econ-asia-wing-thye-woo-2011.pdf〕〔Wing Thye Woo (November 2012). "China meets the middle-income trap: the large potholes in the road to catching-up". Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies V10N4: 313-336〕 as well as on transition economics, globalization, exchange rate economics and regional economic disparity. He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1982 with a thesis entitled 'Exchange rate determination under rational expectations : a structural approach'.〔http://www.worldcat.org/title/exchange-rate-determination-under-rational-expectations-a-structural-approach/oclc/9550912〕 ==Biography== Woo was born in 1954 in George Town, Penang. Following undergraduate study in economics and engineering at Swarthmore College, he took an MA in Economics at Yale and, later an MA and Ph.D at Harvard (1982). Woo joined the economics faculty at the University of California, Davis in 1985. Woo has worked as a consultant on tax and exchange rate reform for China's Ministry of Finance and, between 1994 and 1996, led an international team, which included Leszek Balcerowicz, Boris Fyodorov, Fan Gang and Jeffrey D. Sachs to study the reform experiences of centrally planned economies. From 1997-1998, he was a special advisor to the U.S. Treasury. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Woo Wing Thye」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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