Conservationists and environmental advocacy groups have warned that the nature, pace and scale of Chinese-funded infrastructure projects in the developing world may lead to unintended environmental consequences, especially in so-called “ecological hotspots.” Until now, there has been no systematic, large-scale evidence that confronts the causal claim that Chinese-funded development projects ha
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BenYishay
Ariel BenYishay, Assistant Professor of Economics, earned his PhD in economics from the University of Maryland, after which he accepted a teaching position at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia before coming to William & Mary. Professor BenYishay’s research focuses on development economics, program evaluation, and empirical microeconomics. His teaching role will include undergraduate empirical microeconomics and development economics in the Jefferson Program in Public Policy.