Katsushi Imai
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Development Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School
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- Alliance Manchester Business School
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Alliance Manchester Business School
Biography
Dr Katsushi Imai is Associate Professor in Development Economics at Economics, School of Social Sciences. He joined the University of Manchester in September 2004.
See [Katsushi''s personal website for more details, including the links to his recent working papers.]
Dr Katsushi Imai serves as a research lead of the Development Economics and Policy RAG and a programme director of MSc Development Economics and Policy. He graduated with BA (Econ) from Univ. of Tokyo in 1990, an MSc from LSE in 1997, and a DPhil (Econ) from Oxford in 2001. Since then he taught at Oxford as a post-doctoral fellow at CSAE and Senior Associate Member at St. Antony''s College, and at Royal Holloway, the University of London as Lecturer in Economics, before joining Manchester in 2004. Katsushi regularly works for the IFAD, the UN as a consultant to assist its policy making. He is also an associate fellow at the Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID), the University of Sheffield and an external research fellow at RIEB, Kobe University.
Katsushi specialises in applied econometric works on India and other Asian countries (e.g. China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal). He has published widely on risk, vulnerability and poverty dynamics of households, non-income poverty (e.g. child and adult nutrition) and evaluations of anti-poverty programmes in developing countries, such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India and microfinance programmes in South Asia.
Katsushi is also interested in the role of agriculture - broadly defined to include agricultural development, productivity improvement and institutions - in reducing poverty and inequality in developing countries and how this contributes to achieving the UN''s Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2.
See Katsushi''s publications/publications.html).
See Katsushi''s interest in areas of PhD supervisions/opportunities.html).
External positions
Associate fellow, The Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID), the University of Sheffield
1 Jul 2017 → …
Research Fellow (external, honorary), Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University
Aug 2009 → …
Faculty Research Fellow , Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
Apr 2008 → …
Consultant , International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
1 Aug 1999 → …
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