Staff Profile

Professor of Economics:

Policy reform, industrial and trade policy; economic analysis of projects.

Research Projects

Poverty Targeting in Asia, study of Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo Enterprise performance in China, study of Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo China, rest of Asia and Latin America : competitive threat, study of Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo.

Books

• Poverty Strategies in Asia (with Haider.A.Khan), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006

• Poverty Targeting in Asia, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2005
• Industrialisation and Globalisation: theory and evidence from developing countries, Routledge, 2002, paperback 2007.

Journal Articles

• 'Investment Climate in China: province estimates' Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, vol 13, no 3, 2008
• ‘Development in North East People’s Republic of China: an analysis of enterprise performance 1995-2002' (with Xiao Geng) China Economic Review, vol 18, no 2 2007.
• 'The small-scale manufacturing sector in Ghana: a source of dynamism or of subsistence income?' (with J.V.Mensah and M.Tribe) Journal of International Development, 19 pp 253-273, 2007
• 'The Sophistication of exports: a new trade measure' (with Sanjaya Lall and Jinkang Zhang) World Development, vol 34, no 2, 2006
• 'Modalities of microfinance delivery in Asia and Latin America: lessons for the People’s Republic of China' (with H.Montgomery) China and the World Economy, vol 14, no 1, 2006 pp 30-44.
• 'Great Expectations: microfinance and poverty reduction in Asia and Latin America' (with Heather Montgomery) Oxford Development Studies, vol 33, nos 3 and 4, 2005
• 'People’s Republic of China and its neighbours: evidence on regional trade and investment effects' (with D.Roland Holst) Asia Pacific Economic Literature, vol 19, no 2, 2005
• 'People’s Republic of China’s competitive threat to Latin America: an analysis for 1990-2002' (with Sanjaya Lall and Hiroshi Oikawa) Oxford Development Studies, vol 32, no 2, 2005
• 'ASEAN and China: export rivals or partners in regional growth' (with D.Roland Holst) World Economy, vol 27, no 8, 2004
• 'Industrialization in an age of globalization: some comparisons between East and South East Asia and Latin America' Oxford Development Studies, vol 32, no 2 2004.
• 'Foreign direct investment and poverty in the ASEAN region' with (H.Jalilian) ASEAN Economic Bulletin, vol 19, no 3, 2003

Chapters in Books

• 'Globalization, Geography and Regional Policy' in A.Balisacan and H.Hill (editors) The Dynamics of Regional Development: the Philippines in East Asia, Edward Elgar, 2007
• 'Cost-benefit analysis for development' in D.Clarke (editor) The Elgar Companion to Development Studies, Edward Elgar, 2006, paperback 2007
• 'Poverty, growth and development: what lessons can we draw from recent Chinese experience?' in R.Palmer Jones, J.Thorburn and M.Tribe (editors) Essays in Honour of Ian Livingstone, Ashgate, 2005.
• 'A methodological framework for the economic analysis of regional projects' (with R.Adhikari) in A Estevadeordal, B.Frantz and T.Nguyen (editors) Regional Public Goods in Asia and Latin America, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, 2004
• 'Poverty what we have learnt: experiences and lessons from developing countries' in D.Potts, P.Ryan and A.Toner (editors) Development Planning and Poverty Reduction, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2003
• 'Poverty objectives and the economic analysis of health projects' in D.Potts, P.Ryan and A.Toner (editors) Development Planning and Poverty Reduction, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2003
• 'Assessing the poverty impact of sector based lending' in C.Edmonds (editor) Reducing Poverty in Asia, Edward Elgar, 2003

Manuals and Reports

Handbook for Integrating Poverty Impact in Economic Analysis of Projects, ADB, Manila 2002.

Seminars and Presentations

• Keynote address ‘Investment Climate in China: province estimates’ conference of Chinese Economic Association UK, Nottingham April 2007
• Keynote address ‘Institutions, investment climate and growth’ conference of Fudan University, Shanghai and Chinese Economic Association UK, Shanghai September 2007

• Director of Research, Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo 2001-2006
• Visiting Professor and Academic Board member, University of Peace, European Centre for Peace and Development, Belgrade
• Associate Dean Research, School of Social and International Studies, 2006 to present
• Professor of Development Economics, 1996 onwards
• Member of University Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee