Researchers

African Studies Group, Area Studies Center


Research Field:
Development Economics (Sub-Saharan Africa), Industrialization, Technology diffusion in manufacturing sector, Economic growth

• Clothing Exports from sub-Saharan Africa: Impact on Poverty and Potential for Growth, paper presented at World Bank ABCDE Conference Cape Town, June 2008. (http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTABCDESOUAFR2008/Resources/TakahiroFukunishi.zip)
• Has Low Productivity Constrained Competitiveness of African Firms?: Comparison of Firm Performances with Asian Firms, IDE Discussion Paper No.129, Dec 2007　(forthcoming in Developing Economies).
• International Competitiveness of Manufacturing Firms in sub-Saharan Africa, IDE Discussion Paper No.2, 2004.
• （Paper in progress）
  FDI Spillover in Kenyan Garment Industry, mimeo, Institute of Developing Economies, Mar 2009 (forthcoming in Discussion Paper Series).

• Industrialization and Poverty Alleviation: Pro-poor industrialization strategies revisited, UNIDO Research Programme Report, United Nation Industrial Organization, 2006 (with Mayumi Murayama, Akio Nishiura and Tatsufumi Yamagata).

• "Bottom Billion by Paul Collier", Developing Economies, Vol.47, No.1, 2009

Japan Association for African Studies
Japan Society of International Economics

• Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2008, Specific Session　“Industrialization in LDC: Possibility and Impact in Poverty in South Asia and Africa”, Capetown, June 2008.


• Centre for Studies of African Economies Conference 2008, Oxford University, Oxford, March 2008.


• UNIDO-IDE Workshop, “Productivity and Growth in Asia and Africa”, Tokyo, September 2007.