Speaker: Terry Sicular, Professor of Economics, The University of Western Ontario

Terry Sicular is a leading North American specialist on the Chinese economy. She has written extensively on household incomes, inequality, poverty, and the rural economy in China. She is a co-editor of and contributor to several books including Rising Inequality in China:  Challenges to a Harmonious Society (2013) and Changing Trends in China’s Inequality: Evidence, Analysis and Prospects (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). Her papers have appeared in the China Quarterly, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Development Economics and Economic Journal. She is a recipient of the Zhang Peigang Prize for Development Economics (2010) and the Sun Yefang Prize for Economic Science (2011 and 2017).