Short Bio
I am Principal Economist, Head of the Strategic Research Unit, and Director of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Institute, in the Central and West Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines. Previously, I was Economist, Senior Economist and Principal Economist in the Macroeconomics and Finance Research Division of the Economics and Research Department. I joined ADB in 1996. I am also a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Australian National University, College of Business and Economics; at the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), University of Newcastle (Australia); and at the Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public Policy, University of Cambridge. I am a member of the Editorial Board of Metroeconomica. I undertook my undergraduate studies in Spain. I hold Master's degrees from the International University of Japan and from the University of Pennsylvania, and also hold a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
I work on issues relating to long-run growth in Asia, productivity and technological progress. My research interests spread across areas such as growth (especially the debate on the sources of growth in East Asia), the functional distribution of income, business cycles, the path of profit rates, and structural change. I have held academic positions with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, PRC) during 1995-1996, and with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA), during 1999-2002 (while I was on leave from the ADB).
I am currently working on two books. The first one is on the theoretical foundations of the aggregate production function and its implications for empirical analyses (The Aggregate Production Function and the Measurement of Technical Change: A Critique and Evaluation). The second one is on the relevance of full employment as an objective of policy making in developing Asia (Inclusive Growth, Full Employment and Structural Change. Implications and Policies for Developing Asia). I am also working on a project on industrialization and structural change in Pakistan.
I have co-authored and co-edited a book entitled Labor Markets in Asia: Issues and Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). This book was selected in 2006 by Princeton University as one of the Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics. I have published my work in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, Metroeconomica, Journal of Income Distribution, International Review of Applied Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Oxford Development Studies, among others.
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