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Cong Peng

  • Research Fellow
  • Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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Cong Peng is an economist with an interest in Development, Urban, and International Trade Economics and a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. He's currently affiliated with the EPoD at HKS and the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE.

Projects

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Trade, transnational infrastructure investments and economic development: Evidence from the New Silk Road

Cong Peng, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Mazhar Waseem 15 Aug 2026
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Infrastructure, industrial policy, and economic development

Cong Peng 30 Sep 2026
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The impact of infrastructure improvement on urban life quality in Zambia

Cong Peng, Yulu Tang, Wen Chen 31 Jan 2022
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The impact of infrastructure improvement on urban life quality and firm output

Cong Peng, Wen Chen 31 Aug 2019
Project

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Thumbnail image of Peng-et-al-Working-Paper-November-2024 under project code ZMB-21006

Roads to development? Urbanisation without growth in Zambia

Cong Peng, Yao Wang, Wenfan Chen
Working paper

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