Hitoshi Hirakawa Author & Editor

Hitoshi Hirakawa is Professor of Asian Economies specializing in Asian Economies at the Economic Research Center, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, and Visiting Professor at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He had been teaching at Tokyo Keizai University, Ibaraki University, and others in Japan. Professor Hirakawa obtained his Ph.D. degree in Economics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He holds Master Degree in Business Administration from Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. Kaushalesh Lal earned his Ph.D. degree from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. He holds Masters Degrees in Physics from Kanpur University and Operations Research from University of Delhi, India. Prior to joining United Nations University-MERIT in 2003, he has been teaching at Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi for about 21 years. He completed full six-year term at UNU-MERIT. Presently he is affiliated faculty to UNU-MERIT. Norio Tokumaru is Associate Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan. His research interest is in changing innovation systems in the ICT-related industries in South and East Asia including India, China and Korea from the institutional and evolutionary perspectives. Naoko Shinkai has many years of experiences in research and development work on Development Economics and International Economics issues, including trade policy, labor and productivity, growth and income distribution, financial sector management, industrial development and poverty reduction strategy. She is currently interested in the areas of socio-economic impact assessment of policy reform, evaluation of development projects, and the effectiveness of development assistance and industrial development.