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Shui-Yan Tang

Expert in East Asian environmental policy and politics, microcredit programs, and government reform
  • Professor of Policy, Planning, and Development
  • Director, Master of Public Administration Program
  • Research director, Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise
  • USC Price School of Public Policy
Office: (213) 740- 0379

Expertise

  • environmental policy and politics in East Asia, with a focus on China and Taiwan
  • microcredit programs in the U.S. and abroad
  • land conservation
  • environmental governance and economic development
  • local government, particularly in Southern California
  • public pensions
  • governance reform
  • redevelopment agencies

Languages

  • Cantonese

Additional Information

  • Author of Institutions and Collective Action: Self-Governance in Irrigation (1992)