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Illinois Global Institute Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies

Angela Christine Lyons

Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Recent Publications

Liu, F., Lyons, A. C., & Fang, E. S. (2025). Risk, gender, and digital finance. Finance Research Letters, 79, Article 107295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2025.107295

Lyons, A. C., Montoya Castano, A., Kass-Hanna, J., Zhang, Y., & Soliman, A. (2025). A machine learning approach to assessing multidimensional poverty and targeting assistance among forcibly displaced populations. World Development, 192, Article 107013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107013

Liu, F., & Lyons, A. C. (2024). Use Cases in Fintech. In H. K. Baker, G. Filbeck, & K. Black (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Fintech: Reshaping Finance (pp. 43-64). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-608-520241005

Lyons, A. C., Kass-Hanna, J., & Montoya Castano, A. (2023). A multidimensional approach to measuring vulnerability to poverty among refugee populations. Journal of International Development, 35(7), 2014-2045. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3757

Kass-Hanna, J., Lyons, A. C., & Liu, F. (2022). Building financial resilience through financial and digital literacy in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Emerging Markets Review, 51, Article 100846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2021.100846

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