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Dr. Yan WANG is Senior Economist and task team leader at The World Bank Institute. Her responsibilities include managing a few training courses on Capital Flow Volatility, trade and growth, and an IDF project for Capacity Building. Her recent research include “Foreign Bank Entry and Domestic Bank Performance: Evidence using Bank-level Data”; and “Impact of Service Sector Liberalization in China using CGE Analysis.” She has received several awards including the SUN Yefang Award in Economics, published extensively in academic journals and several books, e.g. The Quality of Growth (2000), and contributed to WB Country Reports including China: Promoting Growth with Equity, Country Economic Memorandum 2003. Before joining WBI, she was an economist in the East Asia Region of the World Bank. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and taught economics as an assistant professor before joining the World Bank.