Tetsushi Sonobe

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  • Position:
    Advisor to the President; Director, Joint Graduate Program, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, and Professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
  • Degree:
    Ph.D.,(Economics)  Yale University
  • Specialty:
    Development Economics
• Current Research Interests:
  Industrial Development in Developing Economies
• Professional Career:
  

  1992	Assistant professor of economics,Tokyo Metropolitan University
  1993	Associate professor of economics,Tokyo Metropolitan University
  2001	Professor of economics,Tokyo Metropolitan University
  2003	Deputy director, Joint Graduate Program, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International
  	Development, and professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
  2010	Director, Joint Graduate Program, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International

• Selected publications:
  Cluster-Based Industrial Development: An East Asian Model (with Keijiro Otsuka), Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  
  Cluster-Based Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa (with Keijiro Otsuka), Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
  
  “Process of Cluster Formation in China: A Case Study of a Garment Town” (with D. Hu and K. Otsuka), Journal of Development Studies 39 (1), 118-139, October 2002.
  
  “Human Capital, Cluster Formation, and International Relocation: The Case of the Garment Industry in Japan, 1968-98” (with E. Yamamura and K. Otsuka), Journal of Economic Geography 3 (1), 37-56, January 2003.
  
  “Changing Roles of Innovation and Imitation in Industrial Development: The Case of the Machine Tool Industry in Taiwan” (with M. Kawakami and K. Otsuka), Economic Development and Cultural Change 52 (1), 103-128, October 2003.
  
  “From Inferior to Superior Products: An Inquiry into the Wenzhou Model of Industrial Development in China” (with D. and K. Otsuka), Journal of Comparative Economic 32 (3), 542-563, September 2004.
  
  “Time Paths in Innovation, Imitation, and Growth: The Case of the Motorcycle Industry in Postwar Japan” (with E. Yamamura and K. Otsuka), Journal of Evolutionary Economics 15 (2), 164-186, April 2005.
  
  “The Division of Labor and the Formation of Industrial Clusters in Taiwan” (with K. Otsuka), Review of Development Economics 10 (1), 71-86, February 2006.
  
  “Industrial Development in the Inland Region of China: A Case Study of the Motorcycle Industry” (with D. Hu and K. Otsuka), Journal of Comparative Economics 34 (4), 818-838, December 2006.
  
  “Beyond the Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Comparative Study of SO2 and CO2 Emissions between Japan and China” (Y. Yaguchi and K. Otsuka), Environment and Development Economics 12 (3), 445-470, June 2007.
  
  “An Exploration into the Successful Development of the Leather-Shoe Industry in Ethiopia” (with J. Akoten and K. Otsuka), Review of Development Economics 13 (4), 719-736, November 2009.
  
  “An Inquiry into the Transformation Process of Village-based Industrial Clusters: The Case of an Iron and Steel Cluster in Northern Vietnam” (with V. H. Nam and K. Otsuka), Journal of Comparative Economics 37 (4), 568-581, December 2009.
  
  “An Inquiry into the Development Process of Village Industry: The Case of a Knitwear Cluster in Northern Vietnam” (with V. H. Nam and K. Otsuka), Journal of Development Studies 46 (2), February 2010.
  
  “Growth Process of Informal Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of a Jua Kali Cluster in Nairobi” (with J. Akoten and K. Otsuka), Small Business Economics, forthcoming.
  
  “Efficiency of Land Allocation through Tenancy Markets: Evidence from China”(with S. Kimura, K. Otsuka, and S. Rozelle), Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.
  
  “An Inquiry into the Rapid Growth of the Garment Industry in Bangladesh” (with K.A. Mottaleb),Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.
  
• E-mail: sonobete
  
  
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