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Tang, Keyi

Assistant Professor, Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at Esade
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Education
  • Doctorado en Filosofía. Johns Hopkins University
Areas of interest
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
Biography

Dr. Keyi Tang joined the Department of Society, Politics, and Sustainability at ESADE Business School as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2024.

Her research and teaching focus on the comparative and international political economy of development. Utilizing big data analysis of restricted databases and qualitative fieldwork case studies, she examines topics such as China’s global economic strategy, structural transformation in the Global South, and the institutional factors contributing to resource misallocation. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Zambia, and Vietnam.

Dr. Tang’s current book project investigates the distributive politics of development finance from multilateral institutions, OECD countries, and China in Africa. Her ongoing research also explores the environmental and social governance of foreign direct investment and renewable energy projects.

She holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies SAIS, an M.A. from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and a B.A. from Nanjing University. Prior to joining ESADE, she was a research fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy GDP Center from 2022 to 2024.

For more information on her research, data, and teaching, please visit her personal website.

Selected publications
  • Tang, K. (2023). The political economy of special economic zones: the cases of Ethiopia and Vietnam. Review of International Political Economy, 30 (5), pp. 1957¿1983.
  • Tang, K. (2021). Development Finance and Distributive Politics: Comparing Chinese and World Bank Finance in sub-Saharan Africa. China Africa Research Initiative Working Paper.
  • Tang, K. (2020). Lessons from East Asia: comparing Ethiopia and Vietnam's early-stage special economic zone development. China Africa Research Initiative Working Paper.
  • Tang, K. & Shen, Y. (2020). Do China-financed dams in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the region's social welfare? A case study of the impacts of Ghana's Bui Dam. Energy Policy, 136, 111062.
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Fax: +34 932 048 105
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