Toshihisa Toyoda () is a
Japanese economist, with contribution in
Econometrics and
Development Economics.
In general
Toshihisa Toyoda was born in
Okayama Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,906,464 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 7,114 Square kilometre, km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefectur ...
,
Japan
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, on August 6, 1940. He attended Okayama Asahi High School, in
Okayama City.
Toyoda received his
bachelor's degree from the Economics Faculty of
Kobe University in 1963, and his
master's degree there in 1965. Then, in 1967-71, he attended the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now called
Tepper School of Business),
Carnegie Mellon University
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, where he received his
Ph.D in 1971. Omicron Delta Epsilon.
In 1966, he began working as a research associate in the Economics Faculty of Kobe University, later becoming a
lecturer
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and then an
associate professor
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Overview
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of the same faculty. Finally, he became a
professor in 1980.
From 1993 to 2003, Toyoda worked at Kobe University's Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, and, from 2004 to 2012, at the Graduate School of Economic Sciences at
Hiroshima Shudo University,
Hiroshima City
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui ...
. He is now a
Professor Emeritus at Kobe University and a Professor Emeritus at Hiroshima Shudo University.
His contribution in the international arena also included doing research and teaching at
University of Essex (1988) and
Beijing Normal University
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(2012). In addition, he was a professor by special invitation at Global Innovation Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University,
Kyoto (2010-2014), which is noted for working closely with overseas, especially with the
Asian countries
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. From 2005 to 2008, he was the President of the Japan Society of International Development (JASID). He particularly contributed to the colleges and universities of the Asian countries, for example, in the establishment of the Faculty of Economics and Business Management,
National University of Laos
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,
Vientiane,
Laos
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.
Econometrics and development economics
Toyoda's contribution has been in both
Econometrics and
Development economics. He published papers in such international journals as Econometrica, Journal Political Economy, International Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Empirical Economics, Asian Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Development, Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Disaster Research, etc.
Publication
Toyoda has published books related to economics both in Japanese and English:
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(mostly in Japanese)
* Toshihisa Toyoda, et al. ''The Principles of Statistics’’ Third Edition, in Japanese ( Toyo Keizai, 2010)
* Toshihisa Toyoda, ''Quantitative Analysis of Economy'' in Japanese (Rokko Press, 2004)
* Toyoda, T., and T. Inoue, (eds.), ''Quantitative Analysis on Contemporary Economic Issues'' ( Kyushu University Press, 2008)
* Toyoda, T., Nishikawa, J., and H. K. Sato, (eds.), ''Economic and Policy Lessons from Japan to Developing Countries'',( Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
* Kaneko, Y., Matsuoka, K., and T. Toyoda, (eds.), ''Asian Law in Disasters: Toward a human-centered recovery'', ( Routledge, 2016)
* Toyoda, T., Wang, J., and Y. Kaneko, (eds.), ''Build Back Better: Challenges of Asian Disaster Recovery'', ( Springer, 2021)
See also
* Econometrics
* Development economics
References
External links
Kobe University
Scholar Citation - Toshihisa Toyoda
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Japanese economists
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Development economists
1940 births
Living people