Position:

Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Studies; School of Interdisciplinary and Area Studies and Said Business School

Faculty / College Address:

Institute for Chinese Studies / Lady Margaret Hall

Email:

christine.wong@area.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Contemporary Chinese economy, public sector management, reform of public services in China

Current Projects:

• Book manuscript on public finance in China – funded by a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation, Sustenance for China’s Long March to a Market Economy: Building a Public Finance System for the 21st Century.
• A study of financing basic education in rural southwest provinces – is government assistance reaching the most disadvantaged children?

Courses Taught:

• Optional paper on Chinese Economic Reform for M Phil in Chinese Studies

Recent Publications:

Books:

• China: Improving Rural Public Finance for the Harmonious Society (with Achim Fock), the World Bank, Report No. 41579-CN, 2007.
• China: Public Services for Building The New Socialist Countryside (with Achim Fock), the World Bank, Report No. 40221-CN, 2007.
• Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality (co-edited with Vivienne Shue). London, Routledge, 2007.
• China: National Development and Sub-national Finance--A Review of Provincial Expenditures (principal author). Report No. 22951-CHA, World Bank, Washington, DC. April 2002. Chinese translation: Zhongguo: Guojia Fazhen yu Difang Caizheng (with Deepak Bhattasali), Beijing Chinese Investment and Trust Corporation Press, April 2003 (second printing July 2003).

Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Books:

• “Can the Retreat from Equality Be Reversed? An Assessment of Redistributive Fiscal Policies from Deng Xiaoping to Wen Jiabao”, in Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality, 2007
• “Introduction: Is China Moving to a More Equitable Development Strategy?” (with Vivienne Shue), Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality, 2007.
• “China’s Fiscal System: A Work in Progress” (with Richard Bird), in Loren Brandt and Thomas Rawski (editors), China's Great Transformation: Origins, Mechanism, and Consequences of the Post-Reform Economic Boom. New York, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
• “Ethnic Minority Regions and Fiscal Decentralization in China: the Promises and Reality of Asymmetric Treatment”, in Richard Bird and Robert Ebel, Editors, Fiscal Fragmentation in Decentralized Countries: Subsidiary, Solidarity, and Asymmetry. Edward Elgar, 2007.
• “Budgeting Issues in China” in OECD, Governance in China, China in the Global Economy, Paris, OECD. 2005.
• “Can China Change Development Paradigm for the 21st Century? Fiscal Policy Options for Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao after Two Decades of Muddling through”, a paper for the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, Germany, January 2005. Chinese translation published in Journal of Comparative Studies, 18, May 2005: 29-46. Beijing.
• “Public Expenditure on the Frontline: Towards Effective Management of Public Expenditure by Sub-National Governments in East Asia” (with Edward Mountfield), in East Asia Decentralizes: Making Local Government Work, Washington, D.C., The World Bank. 2005.
• “Toward a Future Vision of Public Service Unit Reform in China: An Analytical Framework” (with Chunlin Zhang and Edward Mountfield), background paper for the World Bank study, China: Deepening Public Service Unit Reform to Improve Service Delivery. (Available on the World Bank website at http://www.worldbank.org.cn/english/content/Analytical_Framework.pdf.) Chinese translation published in Journal of Comparative Studies, 12, May 2004:17-26.
• “Ethnic Minority Regions and Fiscal Decentralization in China: the Promises and Reality of Asymmetric Treatment”, in Richard Bird and Robert Ebel, Editors, Fiscal Fragmentation in Decentralized Countries: Subsidiary, Solidarity, and Asymmetry. Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
• “China: Fiscal Risks of Contingent Liabilities” (with Kathie Krumm), in Hana Polackova Brixi and Alan Schick (Editors), Government at Risk: Contingent Liabilities and Fiscal Risk, The World Bank, 2002.
• “China’s Compulsory Education and Public Finance” (in Chinese), Journal of Comparative Studies, No. 4, December 2002: 131-146. Beijing.
• "Converting Fees into Taxes: Reform of Extrabudgetary Funds and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in China," in Richard Bird, Robert Ebel, and Christine Wallich, Eds., Decentralization of the Socialist State: Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies, The World Bank, (Chinese edition), Beijing: Central Translation Press, 2001.
• "Central-local Relations Revisited: the 1994 tax-sharing reform and public expenditure management in China", China Perspectives, Number 31, September - October, 2000.

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