Justin Yifu Lin
| Justin Yifu Lin | |
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| Born |
October 15, 1952 Yilan County, Taiwan |
| Nationality |
Chinese PRC from 1979 ROC till 1979 |
| Institution |
World Bank Peking University |
| Field | Political economy |
| Alma mater |
Republic of China Military Academy(Infantry) National Chengchi University(MA) Peking University(MA) University of Chicago(PhD) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Justin Yifu Lin (Chinese: 林毅夫; pinyin: Lín Yìfū), born on October 15, 1952, in Yilan County, Taiwan, as Zhengyi Lin, (simplified Chinese: 林正义; traditional Chinese: 林正義; pinyin: Lín Zhèngyì) is a Chinese economist.
Lin is a former Taiwanese military officer who defected to the PRC in 1979 pursuing his ambitions. Lin transferred from a soldier to an economist when he started studying economics in Peking University and later went to pursue Ph.D at The University of Chicago. After finishing his doctoral dissertation, he returned to Beijing and became a professor at Peking University, founded the China Center for Economic Research (which later upgraded as National School of Development) and was appointed Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank where he served from 2008 to 2012. After that, he returned to Beijing and to his research at Peking University.
His main academic theory is called New structural Economics.
Lin was born on 15 October 1952 in Yilan County, Taiwan, as "Lin Zhengyi". Lin attended high school in Yilan. In 1971, he was admitted to the National Taiwan University's school of agriculture to study hydrology under the faculty of agricultural engineering. During his military training in 1971, Lin applied to enlist rather than return to the university. He transferred to the Republic of China Military Academy, graduating from its 44th class in 1975.
In 1976 Lin entered the MBA program at National Chengchi University in Taiwan on a defense scholarship and returned to the army upon receiving his MBA in 1978. As a captain in the Republic of China Army in Taiwan, he defected to Mainland China on May 17, 1979, from the island of Kinmen off the coast of Fujian to the nearby island of Xiamen of Mainland China. Lin left his pregnant wife and his three-year-old child in Taiwan; a year after he defected, he was declared "missing" by the ROC Army and his wife claimed the equivalent of US$31,000 from the government. His wife and their children joined him years later when both of them went to study in the United States. While an officer in the ROC Army, Lin was held up as a model soldier; after his desertion, the ROC originally listed him as missing but in 2000 issued an order for his arrest on charges of defection.
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