Terry Sicular to speak at the Critical Issues Confronting China on March 27th, filling in for Bo Zhiyue

Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

China’s Middle-Class Families: Catching up with the West

Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series

Speaker: Terry Sicular, Western University

S020, Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

Terry Sicular is a leading North American specialist on the Chinese economy and has written extensively on inequality, poverty, the labor market and the rural economy in China. She is a co-editor of and contributor to Inequality and Public Policy in China. Her major works have appeared in the Review of Income and Wealth, the Journal of Development Economics and the 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).

Note: The originally scheduled speaker for Critical Issues Confronting China for March 27, Bo Zhiyue, did not receive travel authorization to leave China. We thank visiting professor Terry Sicular for filling in for Professor Bo and apologize for any confusion this may have caused.