Dr. Shahid Yusuf: Developmental Economics

Shahid Yusuf, Economic Adviser, Development Economics Research Group, The World Bank, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and a BA in Economics from Cambridge University. Dr. Yusuf is the team leader for the World Bank-Japan project on East Asia’s Future Economy. He was the Director of the World Development Report 1999/2000, Entering the 21st Century. Prior to that, he was Economic Adviser to the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist (1997-98), Lead Economist for the East Africa Department (1995-97) and Lead Economist for the China and Mongolia Department (1989-1993). Dr. Yusuf has also served the World Bank in several other capacities since he first joined the Young Professionals Program in 1974.

Dr. Yusuf has written extensively on development issues, with a special focus on East Asia. His publications include:

1. China's Rural Development, co-authored with Dwight H. Perkins (John Hopkins Press);
2. The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities, with Weiping Wu (Oxford University Press 1997); Rethinking the East Asian Miracle, with co-editor Joseph Stiglitz (Oxford University Press 2001);
3. Facets of Globalization: International and Local Dimensions of Development; and
4. Localization in an Era of Globalization, both co-edited with Weiping Wu and Simon Evenett (Oxford University Press 2000);
5. Can East Asia Compete? Innovation for Global Markets with Simon Evenett (Oxford University Press 2002);
6. Shahid Yusuf et al., Innovative East Asia: The Future of Growth (Oxford University Press 2003);
7. Global Production Networking and Technological Change in East Asia and Global Change and East Asian Policy Initiatives, both co-edited with M. Anjum Altaf and Kaoru Nabeshima (Oxford University Press 2004);
8. Under New Ownership, co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima and Dwight H. Perkins (Stanford University Press 2005); and
9. China’s Development Challenges, co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima (World Bank forthcoming 2006).

He has also published widely in various academic journals.