Dr Hinh T Dinh is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Morocco, and President of Economic Growth and Transformation, LLC., VA in the US. Previously, he spent over 35 years working at the World Bank Group where his last position was Lead Economist in the office of the senior vice-president and chief economist. He has authored and co-authored books published by the World Bank, Oxford University and the Policy Center for the New South and has written articles in professional journals covering public finance, international finance and industrialisation.