Takayoshi KUSAGO
(Associate Professor)

Education

1986
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
Emphasis: Development Economics, International Trade and Investment, Economic Development in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
1992
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Master of Arts in Development Economics
Emphasis: International Agricultural Policy, Development Economics, Econometrics.
1996
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ph.D. in Development Studies
Emphasis: Socio-economic Analysis of Agrarian Household Welfare, Female Migration and Industrial Development, Social Structure and Economic Development, Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods.

Degrees

Ph.D. in Development Studies (The University of Wisconsin-Madison 1996)

Posts

1986-1987
TONEN Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Comptroller's Department, charged financial analysis of capital investment such as Tanker and FCC plant constructions.
1987-1989
TONEN Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Comptroller's Department, charged operational budget control and semi-annual reporting to the parental companies (Exxon and Mobil corps)
1989-1990
Japan Development Institute, ECFA, Tokyo, Japan
Junior Researcher, assisted in financial and economic analysis of Sipansihaporas hydroelectric power development project, Indonesia and a research project on human resources development in international development in Japan.
1990
Associates in Rural Development, Inc., Burlington, Vermont, USA
Visiting Researcher, conducted a study on ODA strategy of major donor countries (the United States, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Japan).
1991
Japan Development Institute, ECFA, Tokyo, Japan
Researcher, economic and social development unit, charged in proposals for a research on basic education in developing countries and a project on export processing zones in Russia.
1992
Associates in Rural Development, Inc., Burlington, Vermont, USA
Summer Intern, assisted in building methodology for social and economic profiles for agrarian regions in developing countries.
1995
The University of Wisconsin Foundation, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Researcher, charged in the analysis of US charity foundations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1996
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Research assistant, Land Tenure Center.
Charged in quantitative analysis of a large household data in Albania.
1997-1998
The World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA
Labor/Gender economist at the Human Development Network Social Protection Group to work on the project on multi-national companies and their workers in export-processing zones in developing countries (designing questionnaires for management and workers for field data collection, sample selection, data analysis and report writing). Conducted field data collection in Mauritius.
1998-2000
Associate Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan.
Taught two lectures on (1) Social Development in Developing Countries and (2) Government and Public Policy.
Research topics included (1) Micro-level Effects of Economic Crisis on Factory Labor in Malaysia, (2) Human Resources Development in Rural Indonesia (working with the World Bank) and (3) Modeling Intr-Household Time Allocation: A Case of Japanese Household Survey Data.
2001-2003
Senior Policy Advisor for Poverty Reduction, Bangkok Sub-Regional Resource Facility, Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme, Bangkok,Thailand.
Assisted member countries in Asia and the Pacific region in the area of poverty reduction. This included technical assistance on poverty measurement and household and community level survey work, combined use of qualitaive and quantitative data collection and analysis. Also, provided knowledge through internet-based poverty network and MDG network.
2000-2005
Associate Professor, Graduate Shool of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Taught Development Economics, Labor Economics, Japanese Economics (in English), Social Development and Statistics at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Research topics included (1) Regional Disparity in Non-Farm Economic Opportuinities in Rural Indonesia, (2) Pro-poor post-conflict economic reconstruction, (3) A multidisciplinary research on the sustainability of health projects in international collaboration, (4) Social and economic impacts of Community-Based Rehabilitation (Disability and Poverty), (5) Livelihood in informal economy and microfinance, (6) GDP, HDI and MDGs: Measuring development

Present Job Title

Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Global Collaboration Center, and AssociateProfessor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
Key teaching subjects:
(1) International Social and Economic Development (Undergarduate and Graduate levels)
(2) Regional Public Policy: Thoery and Practice (Undergraduet and Graduate levels)
Current research projects:
(1) Community-based self-reliant development management: cases and practical method
(2) Participatory social monitoring and evaluation method development and practice (action research)
(3) A micro-study on livelihood of PWD (persons with disability) in Bac Ninh, Vietnam
(4) Integradted well-being mesures of subjective well-being and objective well-being – development and happiness (Japan, Bhutan)
(5) Skill development and general education in postconflict society (Nepal).

Keywords

Human Development, Endogenous Development, Holistic Livelihood Survey, Subjective Indicators, Action Research, Capacity Development

Field of Research

Development Studies

Research Interest

Research on Human Development in Practice
Action Research on Endogenous Development and People's Empowerment

Professional Training Received

1992
Social Impact Assessment Workshop, International Association for Impact Assessment, Washington DC, USA.
1993
Rapid Rural Appraisal Workshop, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
1997
Economic Analysis in Education, Human Development Department Education Group, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA.
1997
Human Resources Professional Development Training, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA.
1997
Labor Economics: Issues and Principles, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA.
2001
International Microfinace Training Seminar, United Nations Capital Development Fund, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
2005
Empowerment Evaluation, American Evaluation Association, Toronto, Canada.

Membership of Professional Associations

International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), Human Development and Capabilities Association (HDCA), American Evaluation Association (AEA), Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics, Japan Society of Family Sociology

Publications and Presentations

Academic Publications

2007 Gross National Happiness and Material Welfare in Bhutan and Japan, with Tashi Choden, and Kokoro Shirai, The Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimpu, Bhutan. 1-220.
2007 "Women's Empowerment through Workers Collectives and Cooperatives in Japan: Sapporo Women's Workers Collectives Case Study, " in Gender Agenda: Asia-Europe Dialogue 3: Economic Empowerment for Gender Equality , Singapore: Asia-Europe Foundation, pp.47-75.
2007 "Rethinking of Economic Growth and Life Satisfaction in Post-Wwii Japan - A Fresh Approach" Social Indicators Research, vol81(1),pp.79-102.
2007 "Action Research" in Junji Koizumi and Kokichi Shimizu (eds.) Advancements in Practical Research- The reality of human sciences, Yuhikaku, Tokyo, 251-266. (in Japanese)
2005 "Post-Conflict Pro-Poor Private Sector Development: The Case of Timor-Leste" Development In Practice, vol 15 (3&4), pp.502-513.
2005 "A study on people's perceptions over their livelihood in Tomamae-town, Hokkaido before the introduction of community currency, " Chapter 2 in the final report on the first experiment of community currencey in Tomamae-town, Hokkaido, Japan, Hokkaido University and Osaka University and Tomamae-town.
2004 "PARIS 21", "Free Trade Zones", "MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)" in Forsyth, T. (ed) Encyclopedia of International Development, Routledge, London and New York.
2003 "Employment generation strategies for poverty reduction" in Keith Griffin (ed.) Poverty Reduction in Mongolia, Asia Pacific Press, ANU, Canberra.
2003 "Pro-poor Private Economic Activities Development" in a report of Strategy for Timor Leste on Employment and Poverty, Dili, Timor Leste.
2002 "Regional Disparity in Accessbility to Non-Farm Economic Involvement Among Rural Indonesian Households " ASEAN Economic Bulletin, vol 19 (3) pp.290-301.
2002 "Kokuren no hinkon sakugen taisaku to shougaisya mondai heno torikumi" (UN's Poverty Alleviation Approaches and Disability Issues ). Rihabiri Kenkyu (in Japanese), vol 112 pp.16-22.
2002 Findings of the Evaluation of the ILO/JAPAN Expansion for Employment Opportunities for Women in Indonesia. Report, ILO/JAPAN Multi-Bi regional project for expansion for employment opportunities for Women, Bangkok, Thailand
2001 Rapid social assessment of a maternal and children's handbook project in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Report for a UNDP-JICA joint assessment work, Jakarta, Indonesia
2001 "Employment Generation Strategies for Poverty Reduction" in a report of A strategy for poverty reduction in Mongolia, Keith Griffin (ed). Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2001 "Preference Heterogeneity, Power, and Intrahousehold Decision-Making in Rural Malaysia" A joint paper with Professor Bradford Barham. World Development, vol.29 (7) pp.1237-1256.
2001 "World Bank and Social Capital" Report on Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), Ministry of Finance, Japan. (in Japanese)
2000 "Mauritian Women's Labor Market in Transition under a Globalized Economy" Journal of Asian Women's Studies, vol.8, pp91-106.
2000 "Mauritious no yushutu kougyouka seisaku to jyosei roudou sijyou no henyou" Asia Jyosei Kenkyu, vol.9, 81-91.
2000 "Why did rural households permit their daughters to be urban factory workers?: a case from rural Malay villages" Labour and Management in Development, vol 1.
2000 "Changes in labor market conditions in the state of Penang in Malaysia: a case of manufacturing sector after the financil crisis" Journal of International Studies, Meijigakuin University, Vol. 3, pp.115-125.
2000 Impacts of Asian Currency Crisis on Human Resources Management among manufacturers in Penang, Malaysia. A research report submitted to The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development (ICSEAD), Kitakyushu, Japan (in Japanese).
2000 "Child Labor" and "Street Children" in Ohtsu and Murakami (ed.) Kokusai Rikai Jyuyou Yogo 300 no Kisochishiki (in Japanese), Meiji Tosho, Tokyo, Japan.
1999 "Individual Aspiration or Family Survival: Rural-Urban Female Migration in Malaysia" Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol.7, no.4. pp.483-523.
1998 "Export Processing Zones: A Review in Need of Update" Discussion Paper No.9802, Human Development Network Social Protection, World Bank, Washington DC, USA.
1996 Female Migration to Export Processing Zones in Malaysia: The Role of Preference Heterogeneity and Intra-Household Power Relations in Family Decision-Making, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Development Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
1993 Research on Participatory Development Toward Poverty Alleviation in Developing Countries. Report to submitted to the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).
1991 "Key features of Japanese Economic Cooperation I and II" International Development Journal (in Japanese), vol. 410 (pp. 142-143) and vol. 411 (pp. 156-157)
1991 Kaihatsu no Puro Yousei eno Sougou Senryaku. ECFA Development Institute Monograph Series No.91-2. Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).
1989 Sipansihaporas Hydroelectric Power Development Project: Feasibility Study. Report submitted to the Government of Indonesia and Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan.
1990 Kaihatsu wo Kangaeru, Keiyu, the Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo (in Japanese).
1986 Rural-Urban Migration, Urbanization and Development: The Case of India. BA thesis submitted to the Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).

Conference/Seminar Presemtations/Chairs

2008 Presentation, "Experience of Minamata: Community Revitalization and Environmental Restoration," the 4th JF Fellow Seminar 2008, Chulalongkorn University, 15 February 2008.
2008 Paneslist, an International synmposium on “Human Security and the Future of International Public Policy”, OSIPP, Osaka University, 11 February 2008.
2007 Panelist, "Global Standards, Local Diversity. Are alternative indexes turning the world upside down? ", The 3rd International Conferenrce on Gross National Happiness, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 28 November 2007.
2007 Presentation, "What different measures can tell us about “local development” in Japan? ", Session III-1. Alternative Wellbeing Indexes, The 3rd International Conferenrce on Gross National Happiness, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 27 November 2007.
2007 Session Chair, Plenary Session on "His Majesty’s Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy in Research for Sustainable Development, " at the 2nd Thai-Japanese Students' Academic Exchange Meeting, Osaka University, Japan, 2 November 2007.
2007 Presentation, "Economic growth and life satisfaction in Japan: what one can learn from the Japanese experience? " Session C : Humanities and Social Science at the 2nd Thai-Japanese Students' Academic Exchange Meeting, Osaka University, Japan, 2 November 2007.
2007 Presentation, "Satisfaction and Happiness of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs): A livelihood study of PWDs in a rural village in Viet Nam (co-author: Nguyen Van Chinh)," HDCA 2007, New School, New York, USA, 20 September 2007.
2007 Presentation, "Whither Nepalese education and skill development?" (co-author: Kamal Phuyal), Education, skills and sustainable growth, Session 8: National policies and practices for education, skills and sustainable growth: Asia, UKFIET 2007, Oxford University, UK, 13 September 2007.
2007 Presentation, "Plenary Session on "Happiness and Public Policy" International Conference on Happiness and Public Policy, UNCC, Bangkok, 17 July 2007.
2007 Presentation, "Measuring Economic Empowerment of Women: A Case of the Sapporo Women’s Workers Collectives in Japan," Session 6G: Applying Feminist Analysis,16th Annual IAFFE Conference on Feminist Economics, Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand.
2007 Presentation, "Gross National Happiness and Material Welfare in Bhutan and Japan," International Seminar, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimpu, Bhutan, 5 June 2007.
2007 Panelist, Panel Discussion on, International Hope Studies Conferenrce in Japan, The Insitutite of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, International House of Japan, Tokyo,18 December 2007.
2007 Panelist, Plenary Panel Discussion on "Global Standards, Local Diversity. Are alternative indexes turning the world upside down?", The 3rd International Conferenrce on Gross National Happiness, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand., 28 November 2007.
2007 Presentation on "What different measures can tell us about "Local development" in Japan?", Session III-1. Alternative Wellbeing Indexes, The 3rd International Conferenrce on Gross National Happiness, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand., 27 November 2007
2007 Chair and Moderator, Plenary Session on "His Majesty's Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy in Research for Sustainable Development, " at the 2nd Thai-Japanese Students' Academic Exchange Meeting, Osaka University, Japan, 2 November 2007.
2007 Invited Talk and Presentation on "Economic growth and life satisfaction in Japan: what one can learn from the Japanese experience? " Session C : Humanities and Social Science at the 2nd Thai-Japanese Students' Academic Exchange Meeting, Osaka University, Japan, 2 November 2007.
2007 Presentation on Satisfaction and Happiness of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs): A livelihood study of PWDs in a rural village in Viet Nam (co-author: Nguyen Van Chinh), HDCA 2007, New School, New York, USA, 20 September 2007.
2007 Presentation on Whither Nepalese education and skill development? (co-author: Kamal Phuyal), Education, skills and sustainable growth, Session 8: National policies and practices for education, skills and sustainable growth: Asia, UKFIET 2007, Oxford University, UK, 13 September 2007.
2007 Presentation on Measuring Economic Empowerment of Women: A Case of the Sapporo Women's Workers Collectives in Japan, Session 6G: Applying Feminist Analysis,16th Annual IAFFE Conference on Feminist Economics, Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand, 29 June-1 July 2007.
2007 Presentatuon on Gross National Happiness and Material Welfare in Bhutan and Japan, International Seminar, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimpu, Bhutan, 5 June 2007.
2006 Presentation on Cultivating an environment for self-diagnosis, prescription, and empowerment evaluation: "community-dock" as a tool for building micro-macro linkage, Applying the Principles of Empowerment Evaluation to Improve Health and Build Community: Demonstrating Effectiveness From Planning to Results, AEA Meeting 2006, Portland, Oregon, 4 November 2006
2006 Presentation on Social Assessment of Community Currency Experimental Project in Tomamae-town, Hokkaido, a special lecture, Centre for Program Evaluation, Department of Education, Unversity of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (July)
2006 Presentation on Development of mixed (qualitative and quantitative) methods for measuring economic empowerment of women in Japan , Session 2G: The Place of Mixed Methods, 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference, The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM), Gold Coast, Australia (July)
2006 Presentation on Economic Growth and Life Satisfaction in Post-war Japan. Panel Session 27: Happiness and Development: Making the Link? 2006 The Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) conference, York University, Toronto, Canada (June)
2006 Presentation on Economic empowerment and social progress: a case of Japanese women's workers collectives. Reassessing Civil Society, the State and Social Capital, University of Bergen, Ullensvang Fjordhotell, Lofthus, Hardanger, Norway. (May )
2006 Commentator, 1st workshop on Human Security, Osaka University, 27 Feb 2006, Osaka.
2005 Speaker in the first lenary session, "Poverty, Population & Health," Sixth Annual Population Research Conference, Linkages Between Population and Millennium Development Goals: The Asian Perspective, Islamabad, PAKISTAN, 29 November to 1 December 2005.
2005 Presentation on Health Development Perspectives in Southeast Asia under the Era of MDGs, Health and MDGs session, Sixth Annual Population Research Conference, Linkages Between Population and Millennium Development Goals: The Asian Perspective, Islamabad, PAKISTAN, 29 November to 1 December 2005.
2005 Presentation on Case study of a new interdisciplinary Evaluation method for Health Projects, with Nakasa, T, Nakamura, Y, Kusago, T., Ikeda, M., Amanuma, N., Kurasawa, A. at 6th Annual Conference of the Japan Evaluation Society, Hiroshima University, December 10-11, 2005.
2005 Presentation on Economic Growth & Life Satisfaction: Japan at the Special Seminar, New Frontiers of Development, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph, CANADA, 1 November 2005.
2005 Presentation on Testing a New Interdisciplinary Evaluation Method: A Case of the Maternal and Child Health handbook Project in Central Java, Indonesia, Session #825, Improving Health Care Quality in in-Patient and Out-Patient Settings Evaluating maternal-Child Health Programs, 2005 Joint CES/AEA Conference, Toronto, CANADA, 29 October 2005.
2005 Chair, Session #308, Experiences and Challenges in Mixed-Method Participatory Evalaution, 2005 Joint CES/AEA Conference, Toronto, CANADA, on, 27 October 2005.
2005 Presentation on A dialogue with a Bhutanese friend: thinking of gross national happiness and economic growth, International Synposium on Bhutan and Gross National Happiness, MOFA, Tokyo, JAPAN, 5 October 2005.
2005 Presentation on Rethinking Quality of Economic Growth with People's Life Satisfaction in Post-WWII Japan at the International Convention of Asia Scholars 4, Shanghai, China, 23 August 2005.
2005 Presentation on Women's Empowerment through Workers Collectives and Cooperatives in Japan at the International Convention of Asia Scholars 4, Shanghai, China, 21 August 2005.
2005 Discussant for an international symposium on Migrant Workers, Human Rights & Media: Comparison across Asia. Korea Research & Consulting Institute on Poverty, Seoul, Korea, 1 july 2005.
2005 Presemtation on Quality of Economic Growth at the International Conferenrce on Capabilities and Happiness, the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, 18 June 2005.
2004 Presentation on "Questioning Quality of Growth in Japan" Asia Leadership Fellow Program (ALFP) Public Synposium, Tokyo, Japan.
2004 Presentation on "Can Milllenium Development Goals Boost Heath Development in Southeast Asia?" COE seminar on Social Development in Asia at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
2004 Presentation on "Female Migration and Industrial Development in Malaysia" Asia Leadership Fellow Program (ALFP) Gotemba-seminar, Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan.
2004 Presentation on "Can we utilize microfinance as an effective instrument for post-conflict economic recovery? " Remittances Microfinance Technology Workshop, School of Economics, University of Queensland and the Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane, Australia.
2004 Presentation on "An Update on Health and MDGs in Asia." Panel: Health and Development: New and Old Issues and Challenges. Sixth ASEAN Inter-University Seminars on Social Development, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
2004 Presentation on "What's MDGs? Review and Prospects." Multidisciplinary International Collaboration Seminar, Research Center for Civil Society, Osaka University, Osaka.
2003 Presentation on "MDGRs - Characteristics and Structure of Reports." At the Pacific Regional Workshop on Millennium Development Goals. Fiji: Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat/UNDP/ADB.
2002 Discussant for a session on "Policies on International Migration" at the Conference on International Migration in Southeast Asia: Challenges and Impacts (organizaed by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), Singapore.
2002 Presentation on "Findings of the Evaluation of the ILO/JAPAN Expansion for Employment Opportunities for Women in Indonesia." At the Wrap-Up Meeting on ILO/JAPAN Regional Project on EEOW, Indonesia Country Chapter, Jakarta, Indonesia
2001 Presentation on "Employment creation and private sector." At the National Workshop on integrating poverty reduction into development strategy(organized by the Government of Mongolia and UNDP), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
2001 Presentation on "Social impact of the economic downturn on workers in the high tech industry in Penang, Malaysia. At the Third EUROSEAS Conference, Panel 12: Social Security and SocialPolicy in South-East Asia, London, United Kingdom.
2001 "Labor Market and Rural Non-Farm Household Business in Indonesia." At the Fifth ASEAN Inter-University Seminars on Social Development, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2000 Presentation on "Preference Heterogeneity, Power, and Intrahousehold Decision-Making in Rural Malaysia." At the Second Gloal Development Conference, Gender Session, Global Development Network, Tokyo, Japan
1999 "Social Dialogueand Labor Market Adjustment in East Asia after the Crisis." (Commentator) At the Seminar on the Economic Crisis, Employment and the Labour Market in East and South-East Asia (organizaed by ILO and World Bank), Tokyo, Japan.
1999 "Individual Aspiration or Family Survival?: Rural-Urban Female Migration in Malaysia." At the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
1998 "Power and Preference Heterogeneity in Household Decision Making." At the Labor Economics Seminar, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
1997 "Comparison of Individual and Household Migration Models: The case of female migration in Malaysia" At the Sixth Tun Abdul Razak Conference, Ohio University, Athens, USA.
1997 "Power and Preference Heterogeneity in Household Decision Making." At the Development Economics Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
1995 "Female Migration to EPZs in Malaysia: An Intrahousehold Approach." At the international workshop, Interdisciplinary, Comparative and Gender Perspectives in Social Research, University of Science, Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
1994 "A New Approach to Female Migration: Micro-based socio-economic analytical framework." At the First Inter-Univerisity the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foudnation Workshop (Stanford University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison), Universitry of Wisconsin- Madison, USA.

Book Reviews

2003 Book review on Can the Poor Infleunce Policy? (Caroline M. Robb, World Bank 2002), Briefing Notes in Economics, Issue No. 59, December 2003/January 2004, pp.10-11

Awards

2004 Fellow, Asia Lreadership Fellow Program for 2004, Japan Foundation and the International House of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.

Grants

2004 - 2008
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.
JSPS Research Grant for "Module Development on Management fpr Self-reliant Local Economic Development." (4 year grant)
2004 -2006
Asahi Glass Foundation, Japan.
Research grant for "An International Joint Research on Livelihoods of Disability and Poverty in Southeast Asia ." (2 year grant)
2003 – 2006
International Health Research Center, Japan.
Research Grant for "Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability for International Health Project." (3 year grant)
1999 - 2000
International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development (ICSEAD)
Research Grant for "Factory Labor and Economic Crisis in Malaysia. " (1 year)

Scholarships

1994-1995
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Scholarship For Field Research (For 8 months field data collection in Malaysia)
1993-1995
The World Bank Graduate Scholarship.
For graduate study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (For two years)
1991-1993
Graduate Scholarship for International Development, International Development Center, Japan.
For graduate study at Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (For two years)