Researcher Profile
HOSONO, Akio
Senior Research Adviser (Full-time)
- Fields of Research
- Experiences of development and Japanese Cooperation
- Related Research Project
- Revisiting the Capacity Development Approach through Comparative Case Analysis
- Educational Background
- - Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Tokyo, 1984
- Career Background
- - Director, Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute, 2011
- Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2008-
- Senior Adviser, Japan international Cooperation Agency, 2007-
- Ambassador of Japan in El Salvador, 2002-
- Professor at the Research Institute of Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University, 2000-
- Professor at the Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences, the University of Tsukuba, 1989- - Major Publications
Chandy, Hosono, Kharas, and Linn (eds.), Getting to Scale: How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People [Brookings Press 2013]) ; “Meeting the Demand of the Poor: Two Cases of Business-Led Scaling Up at the Base of the Pyramid”; “Scaling Up South-South Cooperation through Triangular Cooperation: Japanese Experience” (both in Chandy et al. [2013]); “Inside the Black Box of Capacity Development” (in Kharas, Makino and Jung (eds.), Catalyzing Development: A New Vision for Aid, [Brookings Press 2011]); Saavedra, Hosono and Stallings (eds.), Regional Integration and Economic Development, [Palgrave 2013]; Hosono, and Saavedra (eds.), Development Strategies in East Asia and Latin America, [Macmillan Press 1998]；Hosono y Japan Echo (eds.), La Economia Japonesa en Una Época de Transición, [Japan Echo Inc. 1996]; Landau, Feo and Hosono(eds.), Latin America at a Crossroads: The Challenge to the Trilateral Countries, [The Trilateral Commission 1990]