Xinshen Diao of China, Senior Research Fellow of Development Strategy and Governance Division, joined IFPRI in 2000. Diao earned a B.A. and M.A. in economics from the Beijing Institute of Economics and a Ph.D. in applied economics from the University of Minnesota. At IFPRI, Diao works on issues related to development strategy, growth linkages and dynamics, growth options and poverty reduction in African countries, regional dynamics in Africa, market opportunities for African agriculture and small holders, regional trade integration, international trade policies and the World Trade Organization. Before coming to IFPRI, she was an assistant professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, stationed at the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. She has also held positions at the World Bank, the Economic Reform Institute of China and the Research Center for Rural Development of the State Council (RCRD), both in Beijing.

• Development strategy and pro-poor economic growth; growth linkages and regional dynamics

• China
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Rwanda
• East Africa

• Growth options and poverty reduction in Ethiopia - An economy-wide model analysis
  2007. Xinshen Diao. Food Policy 32(2): 205-228.
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2006.05.005
• Economy-Wide Benefits from Establishing Water User-Right Markets in a Spatially Heterogeneous Agricultural Economy
  2005.Xinshen Diao, Terry Roe and Rachid Doukkali. Environment and Development Economics 10(2005): 249-269.
• International Spillovers, Productivity Growth and Openness in Thailand: An intertemporal General Equilibrium Model Analysis
  2005. Xinshen Diao, Jørn Rattsø, and Hildegunn E. Stokke. Journal of Development Economics 76: 429-450.
• China's WTO Accession: Impacts on Regional Agricultural Income - A Multi-Region, General Equilibrium Analysis
  2003. Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan and Xiaobo Zhang. Journal of Comparative Economics 31(2): 332-351.
• Can a Water Market Avert the 'Double Whammy' of Trade Reform and Lead to a 'Win-Win' Outcome?
  2003. Xinshen Diao and Terry Roe. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45: 708-723.
• A Global Perspective of Liberalizing World Textile and Apparel Trade
  2002. Xinshen Diao and Agapi Somwaru. Nordic Journal of Political Economy 28(2): 127-146.
• Developing Country Interests in Agricultural Reforms under the World Trade Organization
  2002. Xinshen Diao, Terry Roe and Agapi Somwaru. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84(3): 782-90, August 2002.
• What is the Cause of Growth in Regional Trade: Trade Liberalization or RTAs? The Case of Agriculture
  2001. Xinshen Diao, Terry Roe and Agapi Somwaru. The World Economy 24(1): 51-79, January 2001.
• A Dynamic Evaluation of the Effects of a Free Trade Area of the Americas -- An Intertemporal, Global General Equilibrium Model
  2001. Xinshen Diao and Agapi Somwaru. Journal of Regional Integration 16(1): 21-47, March 2001.
• An Inquiry on General Equilibrium Effects of MERCOSUR -- An Intertemporal World Model
  2000. Xinshen Diao and Agapi Somwaru. Journal of Policy Modeling 22(5): 557-588, September 2000.
• Liberalizing Services Trade in APEC: A General Equilibrium Analysis with Imperfect Competition
  2000. Nancy Benjamin and Xinshen Diao. Pacific Economic Review 5(1): 49-75.
• Strategic Policies and Growth: An Applied Model of R&D-Driven Endogenous Growth
  1999. Xinshen Diao, Terry Roe and Erinc Yeldan. Journal of Development Economics 60: 343-380.