Dr Katsushi Imai

Biography

Dr Katsushi Imai is Reader in Development Economics at the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences. He joined the University of Manchester in September 2004.     

[See Katsushi's personal website for more details, including the links to his recent working papers.] 

Dr Katsushi Imai serves as a research lead of the Development Economics and Policy RAG and a programme director of MSc Development Economics and Policy. He graduated with BA (Econ) from Univ. of Tokyo in 1990, an MSc from LSE in 1997, and a DPhil (Econ) from Oxford in 2001. Since then he taught at Oxford as a post-doctoral fellow at CSAE and Senior Associate Member at St. Antony's College, and at Royal Holloway, the University of London as Lecturer in Economics, before joining Manchester in 2004. Katsushi regularly works for the IFAD, the UN as a consultant to assist its policy making. He is also an associate fellow at the Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID), the University of Sheffield and an external research fellow at RIEB, Kobe University.

He serves as a co-editor of Review of Development Economics and an editorial board member for Development Studies Research and Asian Development Perspective.   

Katsushi specialises in applied econometric works on India and other Asian countries (e.g. China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal). He has published widely on risk, vulnerability and poverty dynamics of households, non-income poverty (e.g. child and adult nutrition) and evaluations of anti-poverty programmes in developing countries, such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India and microfinance programmes in South Asia.

Katsushi is also interested in the role of agriculture - broadly defined to include agricultural development, productivity improvement and institutions - in reducing poverty and inequality in developing countries and how this contributes to achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2.  

See Katsushi's publications. 

See Katsushi's interest in areas of PhD supervisions.