KWAN FUNG Kwan, Fung (Department Head; Coordinator of Postgraduate Programme) Assistant Professor Ph. D. in Economics, University of London, UK (Chinese economy, Economic development, macroeconomics, Macao economy) 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. Kwan, Fung (2008) Labour Productivity and the Incidence of Surplus Labour: Experience from Chinese Agriculture during Reform (revision) 2. Kwan, Fung & Kengieng Mak (2007). Productivity Growth in the Greater Pearl River Delta of China (revision) 3. 關鋒 (2008) 經濟發展中的收入分配和貧窮 香港中文大學亞太研究所, (under editing) Selected Publications 1. Zhang, Yang & Fung Kwan (2009), Macao s gaming-led prosperity and prospects for economic diversification, China: an International Journal (Singapore), 7, 2: 288-319. 2. Kwan, Fung (2009). Agricultural Labour and the Incidence of Surplus Labour Experience from China during Reform Journal of China Economic and Business Studies 7 (3), pp.341-362. 3. 關鋒 (2009) 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 ; 頁 1
-22 4. 關鋒 (2009) 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, 頁 117-131 ( 與鄧 小麗合著 ) 5. Kwan, Fung (2008), 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, pp. 549-572. 6. 關鋒 (2007) 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. 7. 關鋒 (2007), 經濟發展與收入分配 澳門社會實錄, 香港中文大學亞太研 究所, 頁 205-225. 8. 關鋒 (2006) 第三章 : 貧窮不均 澳門居民綜合生活素質第二期研究 (2006): 期末報告, 澳門政府可持續發展研究中心, 頁 15-44. 9. Kwan, Fung (2005). Book Review "China's economic globalization through the WTO" Lu (etel.) Ashgate 2003, in Progress in Development Studies. 10. 關鋒及澳門大學人力資源調查小組 (2004) 失業人士特徵及勞動力市場配對 短期報告, 澳門政府人力資源發展委員會. 11. 關鋒 (2004) 澳門經濟 : 產出 業與物價變動 濠鏡 澳門社會科學學會會 刊, 第十八期. 澳門 : 澳門社會科學學會. 12. 關鋒 (2003), 回歸前後澳門經濟發展與所得分配 於餘振 ( 編 ) 雙城記 II- 港 澳的政治 經濟及社會發展, 澳門 : 澳門社會科學學會, 頁 343-348. 13. Kwan, F. (2000) 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, pp. 93-114. 14. 關鋒 (1998), 港澳經濟發展收入所得分配 於餘振 ( 編 ) 雙城記 - 港澳的政 治 經濟及社會發展, 澳門 : 澳門社會科學學會. 15. Various book reviews for the China Quarterly and Progress in Development Studies. Contact Information Department of Economics Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Macau Taipa Macao SAR China Office: BLOCK I A706
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