Prof. Sangui Wang 

Prof. Sangui Wang  

Detailed Tasks Assigned
Project Direction	China: Experimental Research on Providing Sustainable Financial Services to the Low-Income Rural Households in China Principal researcher with the responsibility of directing a household survey to assess the demand for credit by the rural households and a financial institutional survey to assess the effectiveness of current financial services provided by RCCs, designing the experimental schemes and assessing the impacts of the experiments on both households and RCCs. (Ford Foundation, 2001-2003)
	China: Human Development and Socio-economic Change in China’s Poor Areas Project director and principal researcher with the responsibility of designing the survey instruments, directing the filed survey and coordinating other research works. (Ford Foundation, 2001-2002).
	China: Poverty in the Process of Trade Liberalization in China Principal researcher, responsible for household and community surveys in two poor counties in Guizhou and for assessing the impacts of China’s accessing to WTO on different groups of the poor. (Oxfam HK, 2001-2003).
	China: Capacity Building for Social Assessments Poverty specialist, responsible for reviewing the progress and main constraints in poverty reduction in China, and the needs for assessments, assessing the poverty impacts of several ADB projects, preparing training materials and organizing training workshops for the local specialists and project managers. (ADB, 5 months during an 18 months period beginning in January 2001).
	China: Gansu Primary Education Survey Consultant, responsible for writing the data entry programs and supervising the data entry process of about 10,000 household, mother, children, teacher, school principal and village forms, analyzing school financing and its impact on school quality. (Harvard University, 5 months, 2000).
	China: IFAD Thematic Study on Rural Finance in China Consultant, responsible for assessing the rural financial services demand in China, reviewing the mission’s draft recommendations and providing advice, especially on applicability of the recommendations in Chinese context. (IFAD, 0.5 months, 2000).

	China: Economic Assessment on Caohai Microfinance Project Consultant, responsible for the economic impact assessment of the microfinance project at Caohai Natural Reserve in Guizhou Province. (International Crane Foundation, 3 months, 1999).
	China:  UNDP/China Country Review National consultant on Poverty Alleviation, responsible for reviewing reports and documentation relevant to poverty alleviation, reviewing national plan and on-going activities for poverty alleviation by Chinese Government, meeting and receiving feedback on PA in China and the role/performance of UNDP from relevant government agencies, other UN organisations and other donor agencies, undertaking filed visits to UNDP project areas and writing relevant section of the County Review Report. (UNDP, 1.33 months, 1999)
	China:  Microfinance Strategy of Asian Development Bank Domestic resource person with the responsibility of assisting the bank staff to carry out country studies in China and preparing a county-position paper on microfinance sector in China.  (ADB, 0.75 months , 1999)
	China: Rural Poverty and Japan’s Strategy for Poverty Alleviation in China Project director and principal investigator, responsible for a policy/strategy report on rural poverty, China’s poverty alleviation policy and JICA’s strategy for poverty alleviation in China. (JICA, 3 months, 1999)
	China/Canada: Rural Financial Intermediation in Less-Developed Regions: Performance and Reform Prospects Project director and principal researcher with the responsibility of directing a group of 5 researches and 15 enumerators to conduct a survey of about 150 financial institutions in twelve counties in Shanxi and Sichuan, and analysing the current performance, determinants of the performance and reform alternatives of RFIs. Two month was spent in Canada to work with Prof. Loren Brandt at the University of Toronto on the project. (Ford Foundation, 1999-2000)
	China: The impact of Rural Credit on Households’ Production and Consumption Behaviour Project director and principal researcher, responsible for organising field survey, data analysis and modelling of the research project, which was carried out in six poor counties in Northwest and Southwest. (National Natural Sciences Foundation of China, 1998 to 2000).
	China/USA: Rural Poverty, Finance and Investment, and Poverty Policies in China Co-director and principal investigator, responsible for directing the field survey in Sichuan and Guizhou, co-ordinating surveys and data collection carried out by other groups and local statistical bureau, and working on papers on household credit supply and demand and impact assessment of microfinance projects. Seven months were spent in USA to work with Prof. Albert Park on the project (Luce and Ford Foundations. 1996-1998).
	China: Training Workshops on Methods for Analysing Poverty and Rural Finance Organiser and Instructor, responsible for organising two training workshops sponsored by the China Poverty Research Association to provide opportunities for CPRA members to gain access to recently developed methodologies for analysing poverty and rural finance.  Albert Park from the University of Michigan, Scott Rozelle from Stanford University and Jonathan Morduch from Harvard University were invited to give lectures on the workshops. (Ford Foundation,  0.5 month, 1996 and 1997).
	China/Japan:  Agricultural Development in the Remote Areas of China Principal investigator, responsible for field visits and data collection in Yunnan, Guizhou, Xinjiang and Shanxi as well as field trips in Hokkaido Japan, and preparing papers on farming management and agricultural production in remote areas of China. (Ministry of Education of Japan, 1995-1997).
	China:  Economic Reforms and the Challenge of Rural Poverty in China Collaborator and principal researcher, working with Albert Park from the University of Michigan on a Post-doctoral Fellowship for Collaborative Research with the People’s Republic of China with the purpose of assessing China’s on-going poverty programs. (Berkeley Centre for Chinese Studies, 1996)
	China:  NGOs in Agricultural Technology Diffusion in Poor Areas of China Director and principal investigator, responsible for directing surveys of rural households and Farmers’ Agricultural Technology Associations, and analysis of the outreach and performance of the agricultural extension system in Yunnan and Guiahou provinces. (Ford Foundation, 1994 to 1995).
	China: Farmers' Behavior and Agricultural Technology Diffusion in Poor Areas of China Director and principal researcher, responsible for organising a household survey of 300 households in Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces and analysing the data with decision making econometric models to test the hypothesis that subjective risk due to incomplete information affects household technology adoption.   (National Natural Sciences Foundation of China, 1993 to 1995).
	China/Japan: Joint Research on Poverty Reduction in China as Compared with the Experiences in Japan Principal investigator, taking part in the field surveys in Sichuan, Guizhou, Shanxi and Jiangsu as well as several counties in Japan. (Ministry of Education of Japan, 1992 to 1993).

 

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