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Abstract

Economic Effect of Infrastructure investment will be estimated both from macro and micro data. Japan, Thailand, China, Philippines, Uzbekistan cases will be explained. China’s optimal exchange rate system and its impact on Asian economy will be addressed.

Speakers’ Profile:

Naoyuki Yoshino is dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADB Institute); professor emeritus of Keio University, in Tokyo, Japan; and senior adviser at the Japan Financial Services Agency’s (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute). He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1979, where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters (who was Margaret Thatcher’s economic adviser). He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) and was an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an economics professor at Keio University from 1991 to 2014. He was conferred honorary doctorates by the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2004 and by Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) in 2013; he also received the Fukuzawa Award for his contribution to academic research in 2013.