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Research Interest

The primary field of my research is development economics, including rural labour market – migration, income distribution, and structural change. My research work is mainly on the empirical study related to China, Macao and the developing economies.
 

  • The Chinese economy

  1. To examine the conceptualization, measurement and policy implication of the     surplus agricultural labour in rural China.

  2. To research the sources of economic growth in the Greater Pearl River Delta, including the total factor productivity (TFP).

  3. To study the lessons of the three decades’ reform experience in China from a political economic perspective.

  • The Macao economy

  1. Investigation of the total factor productivity of the manufacturing sector in Macao, with preliminary results being presented in a seminar organized by the Monetary Authority of Macao in 2004.

  2. Establishment of a macroeconomic model of Macao, under the guidance of Professor Sir James Mirrlees (1996 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, currently also our Distinguished Professor of Economics at our University). The objectives: to develop the first macroeconometric model for the Macao economy, and to provide a framework for assessing various government policies. Several in-house research briefings were published. This project being identified as a key research area in the University of Macau.

  3. Participation in three large scale baseline studies of quality of life of people in Macao since 2005, of which two household surveys in Macao under my supervision. The 2008 telephone survey on income and employment under planning. Initiated by the Research Centre for the Sustainable Development Strategies of the Macao SAR Government and organized by the Centre of Asian Studies, Hong Kong University and the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. In the process of identifying some variables such as family income, workers employment, household expenditure and others and am hoping that some research findings to be turned into academic research on Macao’s income distribution. Two book chapters and one report being completed.

  4. A book project by the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong after the first conference on the Pan-Pearl River Delta organized by the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Mainly responsible for the chapter on Macao. The book to be published by the Chinese University Press in 2008.

  5. Responsible for a report on the unemployment in Macao under the Human Resource Development Committee, Macao SAR Government.

  • Macroeconomics

  1. Growth models

  2. Macroeconomic models

  3. Economic forecast

  • Development economics
  1. Agriculture

  2. Income distribution & income inequality

  3. Rural-urban migration

 
Courses Taught
  • CCSD221      Macroeconomic Policy of Development
  • CCSD321      China Economic Reform
  • CCSD323      Contemporary Chinese Economy
  • CCSD493      Research Project I (Political Economy)
  • ECMC210      Intermediate Macroeconomics I
  • ECMC100      Basic Microeconomics
  • ECMC335      Economic Growth and Development I
  • ECMC491      Social Sciences Research Project I
  • ECIN043        Chinese Economy
  • ECON100      Basic Macroeconomics
  • ECON101      Basic Microeconomics
  • ECON211      Social Sciences Research Methods I
  • ECON321      Economic Growth and Development I
  • MASS503      Contemporary Chinese Economy
  • MSEC117      Regional Economies (Asia-Pacific / European Monetary)
  • SSSR001      Seminar

 
Conference Presentation and Participations

1.      “Labour Productivity and the Incidence of Surplus Labour: Experience from Chinese Agriculture during Reform” will be presented at the 19th annual conference China's Three Decades of Economic Reform (1978-2008) organized by the China Economic Association (UK) to be held on the 1st April 2008 in Cambridge, UK.

2.      "Convergence and Productivity Growth in the Greater Pearl River Delta of China" was presented in the annual conference Economic Transition, Regional Growth, and Sustainable Development of the Chinese Economist Society (US) held in July 2007 in Changsha, China.

3.      "Productivity Growth in the Greater Pearl River Delta of China" was presented in the 1st Seminar on Law and Social Sciences held in 30-31 October 2007, organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macua and UNESP.

4.      "Productivity Growth in the Greater Pearl River Delta of China" was presented in the Second Biennial Conference on Transition and Development in China: Governance, Market and Public Policy organized by the Chinese Economic Association (UK) and the China Center for Economic Studies, Fudan University, held on 15th -16th September 2007 in Shanghai, China.

5.      Frequent attendance of conferences in Macao, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Beijing on the economic development of Macao and inland China.

 
Administrative Experience
  • Chair, Department of Economics (Since 2006)
  • Coordinator, Economics Programme (2002-2006, 1995-1998)
  • Coordinator, Contemporary China Studies Programme (1998-2003)
    (Participation in the establishment of Contemporary China Studies Programme, resumption of the Economics Programme and establishment of the Department of Economics)
  • Member, University Senate
  • Member, Academic Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities
  • Chair, Publishing Advisory Committee
  • Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities
  • Member or Chair for academic staff recruitment committees of various Faculties, Departments and Research Centres

 
Community Services
  • Chair, Executive Committee, Macau Society of Social Sciences
  • Member, Supervisory Committee, Chinese Association of Cultural Exchange
  • Member, Macao Association of Economics
  • Member, Economic Development Committee, Macao SAR Government
  • Member, Consultative Committee on Redevelopment of Old Districts, Macao SAR Government
  • Member, Human Resource Development Committee, Macao SAR Government (until 2006)
 
Work in Progress

1.     Re-examination of the Surplus Agricultural Labour in China (under review)

2.     Labour Reallocation, Productivity Growth and Dualism in China (revision)

3.     The Chinese Agricultural Productivity Growth (in progress)
4.     Productivity Growth in the Greater Pearl River Delta of China (in progress)

5.    Productivity Growth of Textile Production in the Greater China Area (revision)

 
Selected Publications

1.  "收入分配與貧窮的十年回顧”載張妙清、黃紹倫、尹寶姍、鄭宏泰(編)《澳門特區新貌》,香港:香港中文大學香港亞太研究所;2011, 頁197-219(與何淼、林雪娥、卓帥和合著)

2.   "Rural Labour Reallocation and Productivity Growth in China” International of Business Studies, (forthcoming)..

3.    "基於隨機前沿方法對大中華地區紡織業生產力增長的研究”載王紅、黃少敏、關鋒(編)《中國經濟增長與環境》,上海:格致出版社、上海人民出版社,2011, 頁27-38.(與張洋、卓帥和合著)

4.    "China’s Macroeconomy: Global – Local Interaction” in Chan, L, Chan, L & Kwan F (eds), China at 60 – Global-Local Interactions, Singapore: World Scientific, 2011, 117-138.

5.    "Economic Integration and Development of the Chinese Economy” Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 15(4), 2010, 337-340. (with Y Chen and G Z Sun)

6.    "澳門經濟發展中的博彩業”載梁潔芬、盧兆興(編)《中國澳門特區博彩業與社會發展》,香港:城市大學出版社,2010,頁78-96.

7.    "Macao’s Gaming-led Prosperity and Prospects for Economic Diversification” China – an International Journal, 2009, 7(2), 288-319. (with Y Zhang)

8.    "Agricultural Labour and the Incidence of Surplus Labour – Experience from China during Reform” Journal of China Economic and Business Studies, 2009, 7(3), pp.341-362.

9.    "收入分配和貧窮” 載王家英、黃紹倫、尹寶姍、鄭宏泰(編)《澳門社會新貌:成就與挑戰》,香港:香港中文大學香港亞太研究所;2009, 頁1-22。

10.   "澳門居民收入與通貨膨脹的影響”載郝雨凡、吳志良(編)《澳門藍皮書2008-2009》,北京:社會科學文獻出版社,2009, 頁117-131。(與鄧小麗合著)

11.    "Macao” in Yeung, Y.M. & J.F. Fan (eds.), The Pan-Pearl River Delta An Emerging Regional Economy in a Globalizing China. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008, 549-572. ?(with P K Lee)

12.    "經濟研究在澳門的一些思考”《首屆澳門人文社會科學大會論文集》,澳門:澳門基金會,2007, 頁137-140。

13.     "經濟發展與收入分配”《澳門社會實錄》,載楊汝萬、黃紹倫、尹寶姍、鄭宏泰(編)香港中文大學亞太研究所,2007, 頁205-225。

14.   "Macau’s National Output: Concepts, Composition and Growth, 1982-1999” in Chan, B. (ed.) Leading Issues of the Macau Economy (Macau Studies in Management Series). Macao: Macau Foundation, 2000, 93-114.

 
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