Machiko Nissanke is Professor of Economics at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where she teaches graduate courses in international economics and financial economics since 1993. She studied economics at Birkbeck College and received MSc and PhD degrees in Economics from University of London. She previously worked at Birkbeck College, University College London (UCL), and University of Oxford (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and International Development Centre). She was Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford (1985-90) and Overseas Development Institute, London (1992-5) as well as Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford (1985-92).
Her research interests include finance and development, international economics (trade and finance), macroeconomic adjustments in developing and transitional economies, institutional economics, comparative economic development in Asia and Africa, North-South and South-South economic relations. She published several authored and edited books: Globalisation and Poor in Asia: Can Shared Growth be Sustained ?(edited with Erik Thorbecke) forthcoming 2007,: The Impact of Globalisation on the World’s Poor (edited with Erik Thorbecke), Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006, Comparative Development Experiences in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia (with Ernesr Aryeetey) , Ashgate, 2003, Asia and Africa in a Global Economy, UNU Press, 2003, Economic Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle and the Mirage, James Currey, 2000, Financial Integration and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Ernest Aryeetey), Routledge, 1998, Economic Crisis in Developing Countries: New Perspectives on Commodities, Trade and Finance, Pinter Publishers, 1993 and Soviet Oil Export and Balance of Payment Adjustments, Oxford University Press, 1987. Her articles appeared in many international academic journals, including American Economic Review, World Development, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, World Bank Economic Review, Journal of African Economies, African Development Review, as well as in numerous edited books, conference volumes and reports by World Bank and UN Institutions and Agencies.
She has served as consultant/advisor to various international organisations (UNCTAD, UNIDO, UNDP, UNU, World Bank, African Development Bank, OAU, EU/EEC, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) and Japanese government agencies (MITI, MOFA, JBIC). She advises many international development communities and serves, as a funding member/advisor, a number of international research programmes and global research networks. She was a Programme Committee Member and Chair of Research Sub-Committee of AERC till 2006. She coordinated major international research programmes. She currently acts as co-director with Professor Erik Thorbecke of Cornell University for a UNU/WIDER project on “The Impact of Globalisation on the World’s Poor”. She directs research projects in the fields of international trade and finance as part of the international research programmes, established at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland and founded by the Swiss National Foundation. She also co-directs international research programme on Aid Effectiveness to Infrastructure in East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, founded by Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
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