Research Profile
Personal details:
Dr Katsushi S. Imai
Current Position:
Faculty
Associate, Brooks
World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester
Research Fellow (non-resident), Research Institute
for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University
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*I am a member of 'Development Economics and Policy' Research
Group at Economics, School of Social Sciences.
**I am working closely with BWPI (Brooks World Poverty Institute)
as a faculty associate, a multidisciplinary centre of the poverty
studies. I am also working closely with IDPM (Institute for
Development Policy and Management) and CPRC
(Chronic Poverty Research Centre).
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MSc, MA and postgraduate diploma courses at Economics, School of Social
Sciences (visit here
if you are interested in doing masters or PhD in Economics).
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If you are interested in PhD related to my topic, vist the page 'Possible
areas and topics for PhD supervision'.
Postgraduate:
•
Development Economics
•
Applied Econometrics, Panel Data Analysis
•
Microeconomics
•
Savings and Investment under Risk. Application of Real-options Theory
•
Poverty Dynamics and Vulnerability
•
Evaluation of Public Policy and Anti-poverty Interventions in
Developing Countries
The
Research Grant Proposal (as
a principal investigator) entitled ‘On the Change of Poverty and
Undernutrition in Rural India’ has been approved by the ESRC (1st
July
2010- 30th December 2011, £59,473). Overseas collaborators/
consultants are Raghav
Gaiha (University of
Delhi), Raghbendra
Jha (Australian National University) and Veena S. Kulkarni
(Arkansas State University). Woojin Kang will work as a research
officer for the project. See more
details. See the
news section on the BWPI website.
The
research grant of US$15,000 has been approved by the African Economic
Research Consortium (AERC) to carry out the research on "Integrated
Financial Services and Child Nutrition: Are there any spill-over
effects? Evidence from Ghana" (with Samuel
Kobina Annim)
in the context of the AERC Collaborative project on "Health, Economic
Growth and Poverty Reduction Project" (1st June 2010- 30th April 2011).
In view of the Project's broad aim to build up the North-South cademic
research collaboration, their research will strengthen the link between
Manchester University and University of Cape Coast in Ghana.
The
Research Grant from AUSAID and Australian Social Science Research
Council for the project entitled, ‘Nutrition Poverty Traps,
Workfare and PDS (Public Distribution System)’(with Raghbendra
Jha (Australian National University) and Raghav Gaiha (University of
Delhi), April 2007- March 2010, £320,800; AUD 800,000.
Research Grant
from Chronic Research Poverty Centre in the UK,
entitled ‘Vulnerability and Poverty Dynamics in India, Vietnam
and Bangladesh’ (the main investigator) with Raghbendra Jha
(Australian National University) and Raghav Gaiha (Harvard University
& University of Delhi), April 2008- March 2010, (£10,000).
DFID Project 'Poverty Traps, Nutrition, Health Status and Anti-Poverty
Interventions in Rural India' (Serves as a Lead Researcher, with Prof.
Raghbendra Jha (Australian National University) and Prof. Raghav Gaiha
(University of Delhi), April 2002- March 2006,DFID grant
R8121,£51,000).
The Project to investigate the determinants of fertility in India
using NSS and NFHS data (with Dr Takahiro Sato, RIEB, Kobe University).
- Current and Recent
Projects:
•
Project on poverty, vulnerability and survival strategy of rural
households in India (with Raghav Gaiha and Pasquale Scandizzo)
•
Project on Malnutrition and Community Support in Nepal and Papua New
Guinea (with Per Eklund and Fabrizio Felloni)
•
Project on the Assessment of Millennium Development Goals (with Raghav
Gaiha)
Recent Consultancies:
•
Evaluation of Microfinance Programmes in Asian Countries (the
International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, the UN)
• Role
of Fiscal Policy of Asian Countries under Crisis (the
International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, the UN)
•
The effects of price changes on agricultural development and poverty (the
International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, the UN)
• The
determinants of non-farm activities and poverty in Asian Countries (the
International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, the UN)
•
Evaluations of Determinants of Agricultural Growth, Employment and
Wages in Developing Countries (the International Fund for Agricultural
Development, IFAD, the UN)
•
Evaluations of Vulnerability and Poverty in Developing Countries (the
International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, the UN)
•
Evaluations of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India (DFID)
•
Evaluations of Rural Public Works in India (the International Fund for
Agricultural Development, IFAD, the UN)
•
Economic consultant for the UN projects on community ownership of
household food and nutrition security interventions in Nepal (the IFAD)
•
Assessment of the Feasibility of Achieving the Millennium Development
Goals (the IFAD)
• Role
of Institutional Development in Achieving the Millennium Development
Goals (the IFAD)
- Education/Qualifications:
Edited Book:
[1] Gaiha, R, Imai, K., and Thapa, G. (eds)
(2012), Soaring Food Prices: A
Threat or Opportunity in Asia, Edward Elgar
Publishing, forthcoming.
Authored Book:
[2]
Imai,
K. (2009) Savings, Risk-coping and
Poverty Dynamics
in Developing
Countries: Evidence from India and Kenya, Saarbrücken, VDM Publishing House, (ISBN:978-3-639-15990-5,
228 pages, Abstract).
Refereed Articles (published and
forthcoming):
[3] Imai, K., and Azam, M. S. (2012) 'Does
Microfinance Reduce
Poverty in Bangladesh? New Evidence from Household Panel Data', Journal of Development
Studies, forthcoming (a revised version: RIEB
working paper: DP2010-24, Kobe University: an earlier version: Economics
Discussion Paper, University of Manchester, EDP-1019, 2010).
[4] Gaiha, R., Imai, K., Thapa, G. and
Kang, W. (2012) 'Fiscal
Stimulus,
Agricultural Growth and Poverty in Asia' , The World Economy,
forthcoming (an earlier
version: Economics
Discussion Paper, University of Manchester, EDP-0919, 2009).
[5] Imai, K.,
and Sato, T. (2012) 'Decentralisation,
democracy and allocation of poverty alleviation programmes in rural
India', European
Journal of Development Research, 24, pp.125–143 (doi:10.1057/ejdr.2011.35,
an earlier
version: BWPI
Working Paper 136-2010).
[6] Gaiha, R., Kulkarni, V.
S., Pandey, M., and Imai, K. (2012) 'On
hunger and child mortality in India', the
Journal of Asian
and African Studies, 47(1), pp. 3-17 (earlier
versions: Economics
Discussion
Paper,
University of Manchester, 0907, 2009; Australia South
Asia Research Centre (ANU) Working Paper 2009-4).
[7]
Imai, K., Gaiha,
R.
and Kang, W. (2011) ‘Poverty
Dynamics and
Vulnerability in
Vietnam’ , Applied Economics, 43(25), pp. 3603-3618. (an
earlier
version: Economics
Discussion Paper, University of Manchester (0708, 2007) ( a link to the
paper) ).
[8] Imai, K. (2011) 'Poverty,
undernutrition and
vulnerability in rural India:
Role of rural public works and food for work programmes', International Review of
Applied
Economics, 25(6), November 2011, 669–691 (an earlier
version: Economics
Discussion Paper, University of Manchester, EDP-0914, 2009).
[9] Imai, K., Gaiha, R., and Thapa, G. (2011) 'Supply
Response to Changes in Agricultural Commodity
Prices in Asian Countries', Journal
of Asian
Economics, 22(1), February 2011, pp. 61-75 (access
to the full text on line; an earlier version: Economics Discussion Paper,
University of Manchester, 0808, 2008).
[10] Imai, K., Gaiha, R.
and Kang, W. (2011) 'Poverty, Inequality and
Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam’, International Review of
Applied Economics, 25(3),
pp.249-282 (earlier
versions- Economics
Discussion Paper, University of Manchester (0719, 2007), BWPI working paper:
10/2007 the link is here),
Revised version was
presented at the VDF conference in August 2008 (the
link to the paper).
[11] Driver, C.
and Imai, K. (2011)
'Testing
the
Uncertainty-Investment Relationship using Survey Data on Capital Stock
Disequilibrium', Applied
Economics
Letters, 18(4) 305–310 (an
earlier version: Testing
Real Option Theory using Data on Capital Adequacy Discussion Paper, London,
Royal Holloway Discussion Paper
Series 2003, 3).
[12] Imai, K., Arun,
T., and Annim, S. K. (2010) 'Microfinance
and Household Poverty Reduction: New evidence from India', World Development 38(12), December
2010, pp.1760-1774 (an earlier
version: Economics
Discussion Paper, University of Manchester EDP-1008, 2010).
[13] Gaiha, R., Kulkarni, V. S., Pandey, M., and Imai, K. (2010) 'National
Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Poverty and Prices in Rural
India',
the
Journal of Asian
and African Studies 45(6), December 2010, pp.645-669
(earlier
versions: Economics
Discussion
Paper,
University of Manchester, 0908, 2009,
Australia South
Asia Research Centre (ANU) Working Paper 2009-3).
[14]
Imai, K., Wang, X., and W. Kang (2010) 'Poverty
and Vulnerability in Rural China:
Effects of
Taxation', Journal of Chinese
Economic and Business Studies,
8(4), pp. 399-425, November 2010. (earlier
versions: Chronic
Poverty Research Centre Working Paper 156, 2009 (ISBN:
978-1-906433-59-8),Economics
Discussion Paper, University of Manchester, EDP-0913, 2009).
[15] Imai, K., Gaiha, R., and Thapa, G. (2010) ‘Is the Millennium Development Goal of
Poverty Still Achievable? Role of Institutions, Finance and Openness’ Oxford
Development Studies, 38(3), pp.309-337, September 2010.(NB: the
summary article 'Can
we halve poverty by 2015?' was published in the Economic Times, 21 September
2010. an earlier version of the article: 'Has
Poverty Reduction Slowed
Down in the Developing World? Evidence Based on New Poverty Estimates'
Economics
Discussion Paper, University of
Manchester, EDP-0902).
[16] Scandizzo, P, Gaiha, R. and Imai, K.
(2009) ‘Does
the
Employment Guarantee Scheme Stabilise Household Incomes in Rural India?
, Applied
Economics Letters,
16(12), August 2009, pp.1221-1225.
[17] Scandizzo, P, Gaiha, R. and Imai, K.
(2009) ‘Option
Values, Switches and Wages - An Analysis of the Employment Guarantee
Scheme in India’, Review
of Development Economics, 13(2), May 2009, pp. 248-263.(the link to the
working paper version).
[18] Gaiha,
R., Imai, K. and Nandhi, M. A. (2009) ‘Millennium
Development Goal of Halving Poverty in Asia and the Pacific Region:
Progress, Prospects and Priorities, the Journal of Asian
and African Studies, 44(2) 2009, pp.215-237.
[19] Gaiha, R. and Imai, K. (2009) ‘Measuring
Vulnerability and Poverty in Rural India’ in
W.
Naudé, A. Santos-Paulino
and M. McGillivray (Eds.), Vulnerability
in Developing Countries,
2009 (NB: the
refereed UN-WIDER conference special volume, ISBN
978-92-808-1171-1), United Nations University press, (the
earlier version: UN-WIDER Research Paper 2008-40).
[20] Imai, K. and Eklund,
P. (2008) ‘Women’s
Organisations and Social Capital to Reduce Prevalence of Stunted
Children -Evidence from Papua New Guinea , Oxford
Development Studies, June
2008, 36(2), pp.209-233.
[21] Gaiha,
R., Imai, K., Thapa, G. and Kulkarni, V. (2008) 'Has
Anything Changed? Disparity, Deprivation and Discrimination in Rural
India' in the
Brown Journal
of
World Affairs, 14(2) the Spring/Summer 2008 pp.113-125. (the
earlier working paper version is available
as BWPI working paper:,13/2007) (the link is here)
.
[22] Gaiha, R. and Imai, K. (2008) ‘Agricultural
growth, employment and wage rates in developing countries’, in
G. Kochendorfer-Lucius and B. Pleskovic
(Eds.) Berlin
Workshop Series 2008: Agriculture and Development, July
2008,
pp. 97-130, (the
conference special proceeding of the Berlin Workshop for
World Development Report 2008), the World Bank Publications, Washington
D.C.(the earlier version:
Economics Discussion Paper, University of Manchester 0621, 2006).
[23] Eklund,
P. Imai, K., and Felloni, F. (2007) ‘Women’s
Organisations, Maternal Knowledge, and Social Capital to Reduce
Prevalence of Stunted Children- Evidence from Rural Nepal’ ,
Journal
of Development Studies, April 2007, 43 (3), pp.456-489. (The abstract was featured by 'ID21-Rural Development'
web communication set by IDS, University of Sussex.)
[24] Imai, K.
(2007) ‘Targeting
versus Universalism: Is the Employment Guarantee Scheme in Maharashtra
an Effective Way of Poverty Alleviation? Evidence for Rural India’,
Journal
of Policy Modelling,
January-February 2007, 29 (1), pp. 99-113.
[25] Gaiha,
R. and Imai, K. (2006) ‘Do
Institutions Matter in Poverty Reduction? Prospects of Achieving the
MDG of Poverty Reduction in Asia’ , Statistica &
Applicazioni,
IV(2), 2006, pp. 129-160 (the special volume
for the
International
Conference to Honour Two Eminent Social Scientists, Gini and Lorenz,
Siena, Italy, May 2005).
[26] Gaiha,
R. and Imai, K. (2004) ‘Vulnerability,
Persistence of Poverty and Shocks-Estimates for Semi-Arid Rural
India’ , Oxford
Development Studies, Vol. 32(2), June, 2004, pp.261-281.
[27] Driver,
C., Imai, K. Temple, P. and Urga, G. (2004) ‘The
effect of uncertainty on U.K. Investment Authorisation: Homogenous vs.
Heterogenous Estimators’, Empirical Economics,
Vol. 29(1), January 2004, pp.115-128.
[28] Imai, K. (2003) ‘Is
Livestock Important for Risk Behaviour of Rural Households? Evidence
from Kenya’, Journal of
African Economies, Vol.12 (2), June 2003, pp.271-295.
[29] Gaiha, R.
and Imai, K. (2002) ‘Rural
Public Works and Poverty Alleviation - The Case of the Employment
Guarantee Scheme in Maharashtra’, The International
Review of Applied
Economics, Vol. 16, No. 2, April 2002, pp.131-151.
[30] Gaiha,
R., Imai, K., and Kaushik, P.D. (2001) ‘On
the Targeting and Cost-effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programmes in
Rural India’, Development and Change, Vol.32,
March 2001, pp. 309-342.
Working Papers/ Journal Submissions:
[31] Azam, M.
S. and Imai, K. (2012) Measuring
Households' Vulnerability to Idiosyncratic and Covariate Shocks –
the case of Bangladesh, RIEB Discussion Paper Series,
DP2012-02,Kobe University.
[32] Imai, K. and You, J. (2011) Poverty
Dynamics of Households in Rural China: Identifying Multiple Pathways
for Poverty Transition, RIEB Discussion Paper
Series DP2011-35, Kobe University.
[33] Rodriguez-Takeuchi, L. K., and Imai, K. (2011) Food
Price Surges and Poverty in Urban Colombia: New Evidence from Household, RIEB Discussion Paper
Series DP2011-33, Kobe University.
[34] Imai,
K, Gaiha, R. Ali, A., and Kaicker, N. (2011). Remittances, Growth and Poverty: New
Evidence from Asian Countries", RIEB
Discussion Paper
Series DP2011-30, Kobe University.
[35] Ghalib, A. K., Issam, M., and
Imai, K. (2011) 'The
Impact of Microfinance and its Role in Easing Poverty of Rural
Households: Estimations from Pakistan', RIEB Discussion Paper
Series DP2011-28 , Kobe University.
[36] Imai, K, Gaiha, R., Thapa, G., Annim, S. K, and Gupta,
A. (2011) 'Performance
of Microfinance Institutions-A Macroeconomic and Institutional
Perspective,
[37] Imai, K., Gaiha,
R., Thapa, G., and Annim, S. K.
(2010) Microfinance
and Poverty A Macro Perspective, Economics Discussion Paper,
University of Manchester, EDP-1020.
[38] 'Pro-Poor Growth, Poverty and Inequality in
Rural Vietnam (with W.
Kang) Economics
Discussion
Paper,
University of Manchester, EDP-1010.
[39] 'Savings, Investment and Current Account
Surplus in Asia (with R. Gaiha,
G. Thapa, W. Kang) Economics
Discussion
Paper,
University of Manchester, EDP-1001.
[40] On Insect Infestation
and Agricultural Productivity in Developing Countries (with R. Gaiha,
K. Hill, and S. Mathur) Economics
Discussion
Paper,
University of Manchester, EDP-0910, 2009 .
[41] Finance,
growth, inequality and hunger in Asia: Evidence from country panel data
in 1960-2006 (with R. Gaiha and F. Thapa) Economics
Discussion Paper, University of Manchester, 0813, 2008.
[42] Vulnerability
and Poverty in Bangladesh, (with
Md. Azam) Economics
Discussion
Paper,
University of Manchester, 0905, 2009 (the edited version is available
as CPRC
working paper no. 141 2009 and Australia South
Asia Research Centre (ANU) Working Paper 2009-2) .
[43] 'Soaring
Food Prices: A Threat or
Opportunity in
Asia? '(with G Thapa, R. Gaiha, and V.Kulkarni), BWPI working
paper 69/2009.
[44] 'Fertility,
Parental Education and Development in India: Evidence from NSS and NFHS
in 1992-2006'
(with T. Sato), BWPI working
paper 63/2008, University of
Manchester.
[45] 'Financial
crisis in Asia and the Pacific Region: Its genesis, severity and impact
on poverty and hunger' (with R. Gaiha and G. Thapa) Economics
Discussion Paper, University of Manchester, 0810, 2008.
[46] 'Foodgrain
Stocks, Prices and Speculation' (with R. Gaiha and G.
Thapa), Draft, BWPI working paper 64/2008.
[47]
`Transmission
of World Commodity Prices to Domestic Commodity Prices in India and
China` (with Raghav Gaiha and Ganesh Thapa) BWPI working paper 45/2008.
[48] 'Wages, Prices
and Anti-Poverty Interventions in Rural India', Economics
Discussion Paper, University of Manchester (0723, 2007) (with R.
Gaiha, G. Thapa, and V. Kulkarni).
[49]‘Endowments,
Discrimination and Deprivation among Ethnic Groups in Rural India’,
Economics Discussion Paper, University of Manchester (0722, 2007) (with
R. Gaiha, G. Thapa, and V. Kulkarni).
[50] 'Food and oil
prices' (with R. Gaiha and G. Thapa) , Economics Discussion Paper, University of
Manchester (0801, 2007) (accepted by The 2008 Australasian Meeting of
the Econometric Society in Wellington, New Zealand, July 2008).
[51] ‘Non
agricultural employment and poverty in India: An analysis based on the
60th Round of NSS’, Economics Discussion Paper, University of
Manchester (0705, 2007, with R. Gaiha).
[52] ‘A Review of the
Employment Guarantee Scheme in India’ Economics Discussion
Paper, University of Manchester (0513, 2005, with R. Gaiha)
[53] ‘Employment
Guarantee Scheme as a Social Safety Net-Poverty Dynamics and Poverty
Alleviation’ 2003, Department of Economics Working Paper,
Ref. 149, Mar 2003, Department of Economics, University of Oxford
(presented at the International Conference of Chronic Poverty in
Manchester, April 2003).
[54] ‘Millennium
Development Goals, Agricultural Growth and Openness’ (with R.
Gaiha), Department of Economics Working Paper, Ref 161, May. 2003,
Department of Economics, University of Oxford, presented at a Plenary
Session by IARIW (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN INCOME AND
WEALTH) 28th General Conference, August 2004, Cork,
Ireland.
[55] ‘How
well do Households Cope with Risk through Savings and Portfolio
Adjustment? Evidence from Rural India’, Draft, University of
Oxford. (2003) - It has been published as Chapter 3 of Savings, Risk-coping and Poverty Dynamics
in Developing Countries: Evidence from India and Kenya,
Saarbrücken, VDM Publishing House, 2009 (ISBN:978-3-639-15990-5.
[56] 'The
Spatial Distribution of Protein Deficiency in Rural India in the Last
Three Quinquennial Rounds of NSS', 2003, (with R. Jha).
[57] 'The Spatial Distribution
of Calorie Deficiency in Rural India in the Last Three Quinquennial
Rounds of NSS', 2003, (with R. Jha).
[58] ‘Contrasts
between classes of assets in fixed investment panel equations as a way
of testing real option theory’, (with C. Driver, P. Temple
and G. Urga) (10th International Conference on Panel Data, Berlin, July
5-6, 2002 B3-3, International Conferences on Panel Data.
[59] ‘Risk Benefits of
Public and Market Employment in Rural India: How do
Households Respond to Anticipated and Unanticipated Shocks? 2002
(presented at the European Association of Labour Economists in August,
2002 in Paris).
[60] ‘Are Rural Public
Works Efficient in Alleviating Poverty in the Long Run? Review,
Evidence, and Lessons from India’, Rome, Asia and the Pacific
Division, IFAD, August 1999 (presented at XXIVth IAAE, International
Conference of Agricultural Economics in Berlin, August
2000).
Contributions
to Books and Reports:
[61]
‘Labour
Markets and Employment A Review of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in
India’,(with
R. Gaiha) a chapter in the book, Migration
in India- Issues and Preventive Measures (R. Sthanumoorthy
(Ed.)), HICFAI University Press (ICFAI Business School (IBS)),
Hyderabad, India, 2008.
[62] ‘Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Scheme’,(with R. Gaiha) a chapter in the
book, Maharashtra Economy:
Performance and Challenges (R. Sthanumoorthy (Ed.) ), HICFAI
University Press (ICFAI Business School (IBS)), Hyderabad, India, 2007.
[63] ‘Maharashtra
Employment Guarantee Scheme’ (with R. Gaiha), Policy Brief
6, November 2005, London, ODI and DFID.
[64] ‘The effect of
uncertainty on U.K. Investment Authorisation: Homogenous vs.
Heterogenous Estimators’ (with C. Driver, P. Temple, and G. Urga)
, in B. Raj and B.H. Baltagi (eds), Panel Data: Theory and
Applications, New York, Physica-Verlag, Feb.
2004.
[65] 'Assessment
of Rural Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific Division,
Project Management Department', IFAD, Rome, Jan. 2002 (published by
IFAD with P. Bardhan, R. Gaiha, J. Huang, G. Koirala, G. Morgan, K.
Otsuka, P. Roy, B. Singh, and G. Thapa, ISBN 92-9072-020-4).
[66] Rural Poverty Report 2001, The
Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty, 2001, IFAD, New York, Oxford
University Press (Have contributed the papers on regional assessments
of Asia and Pacific Region, IFAD, the UN). (2001)
[67] ‘Improving Child
Growth and Nutrition through Induced Institutional Innovation at
Community-level’, Chapter 7, in Community Ownership in
Interventions to Reduce Malnutrition and Stunting in Nepal, Rome,
Office of Evaluation Studies, IFAD, 2001.
NB: The above papers will be sent by e-mail on request (e-mail address:
katsushi.imai@manchester.ac.uk)
[68] 'Savings, risk-coping, and poverty dynamics of rural
households in developing countries' , PhD dissertation at University of
Oxford- Department of Economics, Division of Social Sciences
-Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Bliss, 2000.
- Supervision of research
students
PhD
Supervision:
Former PhD Students:
Dr
Woojin Kang, Topic:
‘A Microeconometric Analysis of Household’s Vulnerability
in Vietnam 2002/2004’ (a main supervisor 9/2005-
7/2010, PhD awarded in 1/2011) (with Prof. Chris Orme), now
Research Fellow at Australian National
University.
Dr.
Samuel Kobina Annim 'Positing a
relationship between microfinance and poverty and financial
intermediation' (a main supervisor since 1/2008-
12/2010, PhD
awarded in 12/2010)
with Dr. Thankom Arun, Lancashire Business School), now Senior Lecturer at University of
Cape Coast and Research Fellow at Lancashire Business School.
Dr.
Shireen Mahdi (at IDPM),
‘Inefficient institutions, group conflict and institutional
change’ (a
second supervisor 9/2006- 8/2010, with Prof. Kunal Sen at
IDPM), now at the World Bank.
Dr.
MD. Shafiul Azam
‘Poverty and Vulnerability in LDCs’ (a main supervisor 9/2007- 9/2011), now a research associate,
at Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), the University of Manchester.
Current
PhD Students:
Mr
Abdilahi Gurhan
`Financial development and liberalisation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
and the dynamics of capital flows` (a main supervisor since
9/2011; 9/2009-8/2011 a second supervisor with Dr. Bernard
Walters).
Mr.
Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman 'Applications of Regression Discontinuity
Design' (a second supervisor since 1/2012, with Prof. Martyn Andrews).
Ms. Purnima Purohit 'Institutional Design and Operations of
Agricultural Markets and its impact on State Economy: A Comparative
Study of three States of India' (a second supervisor since 9/2009-
present, with Prof. Kunal Sen at IDPM)
Ms.
Swati Virmani 'International Trade and its Impact and
Implications for Developing Nations' (a second supervisor since
9/2011, with Dr Ed Amann)
Mr.
Subhasish
Dey 'Welfare or Workfare? - A strategy for inclusive growth:
Exploring the case of MG-NREGS' (a main supervisor since 9/2011, with
Prof. Kunal Sen at IDPM)
Mr. Juan Miguel
Villa
'How Important is Cash in Cash in Conditional Cash Transfer
Programms IN Urban Areas of Mexico? (a second supervisor since 9/2011, with
Prof. Armando Barrientos at BWPI)
Mr.
Vicente
Rivera-Garcia 'A Comprehensive Assessment of the Urban Poverty in
Mexico: Poverty Dynamics, Poverty Traps, Vulnerability, Risk and
Policy' (a
main supervisor since 9/2011, with Dr Indranil Dutta and Prof. Armando
Barrientos at BWPI)
Ms.
Adeline
Awantang 'Agricultural Trade
Reform and Poverty in Cameroon: A Macro-Micro Analysis (a main supervisor since 9/2011, with
Prof. Kunal Sen at IDPM)
-Served as an internal examiner for two PhD dissertations at University
of Manchester (Feb-March 2011)
-Served
as an external examiner for a DPhil Dissertation at IDS, University of
Sussex (November 2005)
-Served as a referee for The
Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, Environment and Development
Economics, Journal of Development Studies (6 times), Journal of African
Economies (5 times), Manchester School, World Development (4 times),
Journal of Economic Surveys, Development Policy Review, Economic Change
and Restructuring,
International Journal of Finance & Economics, Journal of South
Asian Development, Natural Resources Forum, Journal of International
Development, Asian Economic Journal, International Review of Applied
Economics (6 times), European Journal of Development Research (4
times), Journal of Asian Economics and Asian Population Studies (NB:
Number does not
include the review of resubmitted
articles).
-Served as a
referee for the
end-of-the report for ESRC Grant (August
2010).
-Served as a
referee for the
research grant application for the ESRC (May
2009).
-Served as a referee for the
end-of-the report for the Joint DFID-ESRC Research Grant on Poverty in
Developing Countries (Aug 2008).
-Served as a referee
for the
Joint DFID-ESRC Research Grant on Poverty in Developing Countries
(Jan 2006).
-Served as a
referee for the
WIDER Jubilee special publication (Nov
2005).
-Served as a referee for the
End of the Award Report of the ESRC project (Aug 2003).
- Conference
Presentations/ Invitations
2009
-Presented a paper at New
Directions in Welfare at St Catherine’s College, Oxford
University, 29 June - 1 July 2009.
-Presented a paper at the
First International Symposium of Comparative Research on Major Regional
Powers in Eurasia: The Elusive Balance: Regional Powers and the Search
for Sustainable Development,, Hokkaido University., July 9-10, 2009,.
.
2008
- Presented a paper at the
VDF 4th Conference on the Development of Vietnam, Aug 2008,
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).
- Presented a paper at the
2008 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society in Wellington,
New Zealand, 9-11 July, 2008.
'Food
and oil prices' (with R. Gaiha and G. Thapa) , Economics Discussion Paper, University of
Manchester (0801, 2007) (under revision) will be presented.
2007
-Presented a paper at the UNU-WIDER
conference on ‘Fragile States - Fragile Groups’, in
Helsinki 15-16 June 2007
2006
-Presented a paper at 13th
International Panel Data Conference, Cambridge University July 2006.
2005
-Presented a paper at WIDER
Jubilee conference on ‘Future of Development Economics’, in
Helsinki 17-18 June
-Presented a paper at the
International Conference on ‘Social Protection for Chronic
Poverty- Risk, Needs, and Rights, Protecting What? How?’ by
Institute for Development Policy and Management and the Chronic Poverty
Research Centre, held at the University of Manchester, 23-24 February
2005.
2004
-Presented a paper at Royal
Economic Society Annual Conference 2004 (5th-7th April), University of
Swansea (the link to the paper)
-Presented a paper for the
plenary session at IARIW (International Association for Research in
Income and Wealth) 28th General Conference, (22 to 28 August, 2004),
Cork, Ireland.
-Presented a paper at the
Econ-Mod International Conference "Input-Output and General
Equilibrium: Data, Modelling and Policy Analysis" in Brussels,
September 2-4, 2004.
2003
-Presented a paper at Royal
Economic Society Meeting (9th April),
-Presented 3 papers (incl. two
joint papers) at the International Conference of Chronic Poverty in
Manchester in (7th-9th April). - A grant covering costs for flight and
accommodation was
awarded.
-Presented a paper at WIDER
(World Institute for Development Economics Research) Conference on
‘Sharing Global Prosperity’ in Helsinki, 5th-7th
September.- A grant covering costs for flight and accommodation was
awarded.
2002
-EALE (European Association of
Labour Economics) 14th Annual Conference, 15-18
September 2002 in Paris,
Presented the paper, Presented the paper, ‘Risk Benefits of
Public and Market
Employment in Rural India: How do Households Respond to
Anticipated and Unanticipated
Shocks?’
-International Conference on
Finance and Development in Manchester, 10-12 April
2002, Presented the paper,
‘Risk Benefits of Public and Market Employment in Rural India:
How do Households Respond to Anticipated and Unanticipated
Shocks?’
2001
-56th European Meeting of the
Econometric Society, August 25-29, 2001, Lausanne,
Presented the paper,
‘How well do Households Cope with Risk through Savings and
Portfolio Adjustment? Evidence from Rural India’
-EALE (European Association of
Labour Economics) 13th Annual Conference, 13-16 September 2001 in
Finland, Presented the paper, ‘Rural Public Works and
Poverty Alleviation – The Case of
the Employment Guarantee Scheme in (the Indian State of) Maharashtra,
(with R.Gaiha)
-International Conference on
Malnutrition in Developing Countries, organised by
the UN, IFAD, Fiuggi in Italy, 18-20
September, Presented the paper, ‘Improving
Child Growth and Nutrition through
Induced Institutional Innovation at
Community-level, Evidence from Nepal and
Papua New Guinea’ (with Per Eklund and F. Felloni)
-Conference organised under
the sponsorship of the ESRC project “an exploration of the
problem of UK investment using long-run survey data”: New
Perspective on Fixed Investment, at City University Business School,
April 2001, Presented the paper ‘Pooled vs. heterogeneous
estimators: an application to the effect of uncertainty in the
U.K. Investment at industry level’
2000
-XXIVth IAAE
(International Association of Agricultural Economics), International
Conference of Agricultural Economics in Berlin, August 2000.
Presented the following two papers.
a) Contributed paper:
‘On the Targeting and Cost-effectiveness of Anti-Poverty
Programmes in Rural India’,
b) Paper for the panel
session: ‘Are Rural Public Works Efficient in Alleviating Poverty
in the Long Run? Review, Evidence, and Lessons from India’
-Young Economist Conference in
Oxford, March 2000
‘How well do
Households Cope with Risk through Savings and Portfolio
Adjustment? Evidence from Rural India’ (Contributed
paper).
- SELECTED SEMINAR
PRESENTATIONS
Applied
Microeconomics Seminar, University College London, October 2000; Research Seminar on Poverty, IDS,
University of Sussex, September 2000; Research Seminars at Centre for Studies of
African Economies and Department of Economics, University of Oxford ((March
2000, November, December 2002, May 2003); Organised Seminars on
Child Malnutrition and Community Organisation with Dr Per Eklund at
Centre for Studies of African Economies, Queen Elizabeth House, and
Asian Studies Centre at St. Antony’s College, University of
Oxford in November 2002 and in January 2003; Seminar presentation
at Department of Economics, Royal Holloway in December 2003;
Seminar Presentations at Manchester (Economics and IDPM) in February
and November 2005, February, March and October 2006; Seminar
Presentations/ Lectures at University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’
and University of Rome “La Sapienza”, December 2006 and at Osaka
University, Doshisha University, and Osaka City University in October
and November 2007. Seminar
presentations at Kobe University (RIEB) and Doshisha
University in July 2008. Joint IDPM-Manchester Development Economics
Seminar at Manchester and CMPO Seminar at University of Bristol in
February 2009. Seminar presentation at Kobe University
(RIEB) in July 2009. Joint Kobe-Hanyang University Workshop,
May 2010 (presentation and discussant). Seminars at RIEB, Kobe
University and Dosisha University, July 2010. Workshop at Kwansei
Gakuin University, Umeda, KDME workshop, August 2010. Seminar
'Rokko Forum' at Faculty of Economics, Kobe University, September 2010.
INVITED LECTURES:
-Gave a lecture on Poverty and
Vulnerability in India and China for the
BWPI Advanced Graduate Workshop in June 2009.
-Gave lectures on Poverty
and
Vulnerability in LDCs at University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' and
University of Rome 'La Sapienza' in December 2006.