摘要
PROFESSOR Justin Lin Yifu is nothing if not a patriot."The main rea- son I returned to China was because I wanted to make a contribution to the economic de- velopment and economic transition of China,"the World Bank’s new chief economist once
PROFESSOR Justin Lin Yifu is nothing if not a patriot. ＂The main reason I returned to China was because I wanted to make a contribution to the economic development and economic transition of China,＂ the World Bank＇s new chief economist once famously said while delivering a talk at the Marshall Lectures at Cambridge University in 2007. Lin was trying to explain why he left Yale in the late 1980s after spending time there as a senior research fellow, and the implication was that he could well have chosen to stay on in the West, as so many of his fellow Chinese graduate students were then doing,
