Recent Research Interests

He received his Ph.D. from Hitotsubashi University. He has held a previous visiting appointment at UNU-WIDER. And, he was also visiting research fellow at DG-REGIO in EUROPEAN COMMISSION, ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles) and SOAS, University of London. His main research interests are new technology adoption of agriculture in Madagascar and Ethiopia, improvement of productivity of Small and Medium enterprises in Indonesia and Thailand, poverty reduction in African countries, the relationship between migration and happiness in Cambodia and applied microeconometrics.

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