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Francis Ng

Senior Economist

FRANCIS NG is a senior economist of the International Trade and Integration Team (DECTI) in the Development Economic Research Group of the World Bank. Mr. Ng has  served a number of assignments, including South Asia Country Program Department, Country Policy Department, Country Economics Department, International Economics Department, and Policy Research Group in the World Bank. He is currently doing research on various international trade issues, including trade growth and barriers, markets access for developing countries, agricultural trade and subsidies, trade policy reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, trade and production fragmentation in East Asia and Central European economies, and competition and investment policies in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining the Bank, he was a special research associate at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and a community officer at City District Office in Hong Kong Government. He holds PhD, MBA/MPA and MA degrees in economics, international business and public administration.

Current research interest: trade growth and performance analysis, market access and import barriers, regional integration and competitiveness, trade and production fragmentation, trade policy reform and FDI issues, and various trade indicator measures/data analysis.

The author's works below are drawn from the World Bank's institutional archives. You can also download other documents by this author.


World Bank working papers and publications

1 .Demand growth versus market share gains : decomposing world manufacturing import growth
2 .Trends in developing country trade 1980-2010
3 .The evolution of agricultural trade flows
4 .Bosnia and Herzegovina's surprising export performance : back to the past in a new veil but will It last ?
5 .China and central and eastern European countries : regional networks, global supply chain, or international competitors?
6 .Integration of markets vs. integration by agreements
7 .Who are the net food importing countries ?
8 .Turkey's evolving trade integration into Pan-European markets
9 .Bulgaria's integration into the Pan-European economy and industrial restructuring
10 .Romania's integration into European markets : implications for sustainability of the current export boom
11 .The World Bank economic review 18 (2)
12 .Export profiles of small landlocked countries : a case study focusing on their implications for Lesotho
13 .Major trade trends in East Asia : what are their implications for regional cooperation and growth
14 .Reducing agrcultural tariffs versus domestic support : what's more important for developing countries?
15 .The World Bank economic review 16 (1)
16 .Antidumping as safeguard policy
17 .Trade and production fragmentation : Central European economies in European Union networks of production and marketing
18 .Eliminating excessive tariffs on exports of least developed countries
19 .Production sharing in East Asia : who does what for whom, and why?
20 .Good governance and trade policy : are they the keys to Africa's global integration and growth?
21 .Distortionary effects of state trading in agriculture : issues for the next round of negotiations
22 .Open economies work better! Did Africa's protectionist policies cause its marginalization in world trade?




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