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| Professor Machiko Nissanke |
| MSC
(MOSCOW), MSC (LONDON), PHD (LONDON) |
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Position
Professor of Economics
Associate Member and Professor of Economics
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Career Summary
Current Employment
Professor
of Economics, SOAS, University of London
Previous Positions Held
Research
Fellow, Overseas Development Institute, London, 1992-1995
Senior
Research Officer, International Development Centre, University of
Oxford, 1988-1992
(Research
Associate 1988-1994)
Research
Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1985-1990
Research
Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford,
1985-1988
Senior
Associate Member, St. Antony's College,
University of Oxford, 1985-1992
Research
Officer, University College London, University of London, 1981-1985
Research
Assistant, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1977-1978
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Current/Recent External Activities and Projects
NCCR/ WTI Research Programme on Trade Regulation - IP12.1: Primary
Commodities and IP12.2: Exchange Rate Regimes
IP12
Project Leader, 2005- Present
UNU/WIDER Research Programme on "The Impact of Globalisation on the
World's Poor"
Project
Co-Director (with Professor Erik Thorbecke), 2004- Present
JBIC-funded International Research
Programme on Aid Effectiveness to Infrastructure-building in Asia and
Africa
Project
Co-Director, 2006- Present
Nordic-Japanese
Research Programme on the New Architecture of Overseas Development
Assistance in Asia
Organising
Committee Member, 2003-2006
Overseas
Development Institute, London
Advisory
Committee Member for the ODI Fellowship Scheme, 2003-2005
African
Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi
Chair of
Research Sub-Committee, 2002-2006
Advisory
Academic Programme Committee Member, 2000-2006
Resource Person, AERC Bi-annual Workshops for African Economists,
1992-Present
International Research Coordinator, Research Programme on Comparative
Development Experiences in Africa and Asia, 1995-1997
Foundation
for Advanced Study of International Development (FASID), Tokyo
International
Research Co-ordinator, 2000-2002
Institutional
Academic Link between UK Universities and University of Ghana, British
Council
UK
Coordinator, 1995-1997
Consultancies
Consultant
for numerous international organisations, including EEC, World Bank,
UNDP, UNCTAD, UNIDO, African Development Bank, African Economic
Research Consortium (AERC, Nairobi), UNU, OAU, ILO, Japanese
Government Agencies, and other international organisations.
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Research Interests
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Finance and development.
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International economics (trade, finance and commodity issues).
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Macroeconomic adjustments in developing and transitional economies.
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Institutional economics.
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Comparative economic development in Asia and Africa.
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North-South & South-South economic relations.
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Teaching Interests
Open
economy macroeconomics, international trade and finance, financial
economics. Africa and Asia.
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Publications
Books
  
 
Globalization
and the Poor in Asia: Can
Shared Growth be Sustained?, with Erik
Thorbecke, Cornell University,
Palgrave/Macmillan, March 2008, ISBN
9780230201880
The Impact
of Globalization on the World’s Poor: The Transmission
Mechanisms, with Erik Thorbecke, Cornell University,
Palgrave/Macmillan, January 2007, ISBN 1-4039-4295-1
Comparative
Development Experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia: An
Institutional Approach, with Ernest Aryeetey, Ashgate (2003)
Asia and
Africa in the Global Economy, with Ernest Aryeetey, Julius Court and
Beatrice Weder, UNU: Tokyo ( 2003)
Economic
Reforms in Ghana: The miracle & the Mirage, with Ernest Aryeetey
and Jane Harrigan, James Currey (2000)
Financial
Integration and Development: Liberalization and Reform in Sub-Saharan
Africa, with Ernest Aryeetey, Routledge: London and New York (1998)
Economic
Crisis in Developing Countries: New Perspectives on Commodities, Trade
and Finance, with A. Hewitt, Pinter Publishers: London (1993)
Soviet
Oil Exports, with
Margaret Chadwick and David Long, Oxford University Press: Oxford (1987)
Book Chapters
“Institutional
Analysis of Financial Market Fragmentation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A
Risk-Cost
Configuration Approach”, (with Ernest Aryeetey), in the book edited
by
George
Mavrotas, Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development,
Palgrave/Macmillan,
March 2008, 9780230201767
“A
Quest for Pro-Poor Globalization” (with Editor Thorbecke), Chapter
14
of the
book, Advancing Development edited by George Mavrotas and
Anthony
Shorrocks, Palgrave/Macmillan, February 2007, ISBN 0 230-01904-8
“Channels
and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus”,
and
“Overview”
(with Erik Thorbecke), Chapters
1& 2 of the book, The Impact of
Globalisation on
the World’s Poor: Transmission Mechanisms, Palgrave/Macmillan,
January 2007,
ISBN 1-4039-4295-1
"Revenue
Potential of the Tobin Tax for Development Finance", Chapter 5 in
Innovative Sources for Development Finance, edited by Tony Atkinson,
Oxford University Press (2004). Also appeared as "Revenue
Potential of the Tobin Tax for Development Finance", WIDER
Discussion Paper, Helsinki, December 2003 (2003).
"Donors'
Support for Microcredit as Social Enterprise: A Critical Reappraisal", Chapter
4 in External Development Finance for Private Sector Development, edited
by Matthew Odedokun, Palgrove for UNU/WIDERArticles in Journals (2004).
Also appeared as "Donors'
Support for Microcredit as Social Enterprise: A critical Reappraisal",
in WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2002/127 (2002).
"Debt
Dynamics and Contingency Financing: Theoretical Reappraisal of the HIPC
Initiative" (with Benno Ferrarini), in Debt Relief, edited by Tony
Addison and Finn Tarp, Routledge (2004).
Also appeared as "Debt
Dynamics and Contingency Financing: Theoretical Reappraisal of the HIPC
Initiative", with Benno Ferrarini, in WIDER Discussion Paper No.
2001/139 (2001).
"African
Experiences with Financial Sector Reforms: What has been
achieved so far", in Deregulation and the Banking Crisis in Nigeria: A
Comparative Study, edited by Howard Stein, O. Ajakaiye and P.
Lewiswith, Palgrove/St. Martins, pp.129-167 (2002)."Financing
Enterprise Development in sub-Saharan Africa", in Cambridge Journal of
Economics, Vol. 25, No.3, pp. 343-367 (2001).
"Financial
Policies and Intermediation Performance", in Negotiating
Structural Adjustment in Africa, edited by Willem van der Geest, James
Currey, pp.161-174 (1994).
"Financial
Linkage Development in Sub-Saharan Africa", in Economic
Policy Experience in Africa, edited by A. Atsain, S. Wangwe and A.
Drabeck, African Economic Research Consortium: Nairobi, pp.105-128
(1994).
Savings and Financial Policy Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa", in Finance
and the Real Economy, edited by Y. Akyuz and G. Held, UNCTAD/UN
ECLAC/UNU WIDER publication, pp102-148 (1993).
"Stabilization-cum-Adjustment over the Commodity Price Cycle", in
Economic Crisis in Developing Countries: New Perspectives on
Commodities, Trade and Finance, edited with A. Hewitt , Pinter
Publishers: London, pp. 56-78 (1993).
"Domestic
Resource Mobilization for African Development and
Diversification: Structural Impediments in the Financial System", in
Economic Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Chibber A. and S.
Fischer, World Bank Symposium volume, pp. 56-78 (1991).
"Causes
for Military Expenditures in Developing Countries", in Defence,
Security and Development, edited by Deger S. and R. West, Frances
Pinter, pp. 129-139 (1987)
"Financing Enterprise Development and Export Diversification in
Sub-Saharan Africa", in African Development in a Comparative
Perspective, Study No. 8, UNCTAD (1998).
Journal
Articles
“Institutional
Foundations for Shared Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa”
(with Alice Sindzingre), African
Development Review, Vol. 18, No.3, pp. 353-391, ISSN 1017-6772 ,
December
2006
Introduction:
in Special Issue on “The Impact of
Globalisation
on the World’s Poor”, Gust Editor with Erik Thorbecke, World
Development,
August 2006, ISSN 0305-750X
“Channels
and Policy Debate in the Globalisation-Inequality-Poverty Nexus”, (with Erik Thorbecke), World Development,
August 2006, pp1338-1360, ISSN 0305-750X
"Financial
Globalization and Economic Development: Towards an
Institutional Foundation", with Howard Stein, in Eastern Economic
Journal, Vol 29, No 2 (2003).
"From
Aid Dependence to Self-Articulated Aspiration: Comparative
Analysis in Africa and Asia", in Cambridge Review of International
Affairs, Vol. 14, No.1, pp. 167-190 (2000).
"From Aid Dependence to Self-Articulated Aspiration: Comparative
Analysis in Africa and Asia", in Cambridge Review of International
Affairs, Vol. 14, No.1, pp. 167-190 (2000).
"Structural
Adjustments and the African Crisis: A Theoretical
Appraisal", with Howard Stein, in Eastern Economic Journal, Vol.25,
No.4, pp. 399-420 (1999).
"Financial
Market Fragmentation and Reforms in four African Countries",
with William Steel, Hemamale Hettige and Ernest Aryeetey, in World Bank
Economic Review, Vol. 11, No.2., pp. 195-218 (1997)
"Informal Finance under Liberalisation", with Ernest Aryeetey,
Hemammala Hettige and William Steel, in World Development, Vol. 25,
No.5 pp. 817-830 (1997).
"The Comments: The Characteristics of Informal Financial Markets in
sub-Saharan Africa", in Journal of African Economies, OUP., Vol. 6, no.
1, pp. 204-11 (1997).
"Determinants
of Military Expenditures in Developing Countries", with
Alfred Maizels, in World Development, Vol. 14. No.9. pp. 1125-1140
(1986)
"Motivations
for Aid to Developing Countries", with Alfred Maizels, in
World Development, Vol. 12, No. 9, pp. 879-900 (1984).
Selected
Other
Papers
“Pro-Poor
Globalisation: An Elusive Concept or a Realistic Perspective”, SOAS
Inaugural Lecture Series, SOAS, University of London,
2007, ISBN 07286 0377 2.
“Assessing
the Aid Allocation and Debt Sustainability Framework: Working Towards
Incentive
Compatible Aid Contracts” (with Benno Ferrarini), UNU/WIDER
Research
Paper
No.2007/33, June 2007, ISSN 1810-2611,
ISBN 92-9190-976-9
“Institutional
Analysis of Financial Market Fragmentation in Sub-Saharan Africa:
A Risk-Cost Configuration Approach”, (with Ernest Aryeetey), UNU/WIDER
Research
Paper No.2006/87, August 2006 ISSN 1810-2611, ISBN 92-9190-865-7
“A
Quest for Pro-Poor Globalisation”, (with Erik Thorbecke), UNU/WIDER
Research
Paper No.2006/46, May 2006 ISSN 1810-2611, ISBN 92-9190-814-2
"Financial
Market Fragmentation and Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa",
with Ernest Aryeetey, Hemamala Hettige and William Steel, in World Bank
Discussion Paper No.356, Washington D.C., September 1996 (1996).
"Mobilization and Allocation of Domestic Savings: a Case Study on
Nepal", with Priya Basu, UNCTAD Discussion Paper, No.64 July (1993).
"Mobilization and Allocation of Domestic Savings: a Case Study on
Bhutan", with Priya Basu, UNCTAD Discussion Paper, No.63 July (1993).
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