Kwan S. Kim

Professor of Economics
(PhD, University of Minnesota, 1967)
O-220 Hesburgh Center
574-631-5179
email: kkim@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~econplcy/faculty_staff/kim.html

Geographic focus: Asia (Japan, South Korea, Thailand); Sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America (Mexico)

Thematic interests: Development economics; international trade and finance; econometrics.

Current research: Financial and economic integration in East Asia; US–China trade relations; globalization; income distribution and poverty; Global poverty gap.

Selected publications: Coauthor, El Ecuador en el Mercado Munidial (1997); Estrategias de Desarrollo para el Futuro de Mexico (1989); Author, Politica Industrial y Desarrollo en Corea del Sur (1985). "Income Distribution and Poverty: An Interregional Comparison," World Development (1997). "Possibilities and Challenges for Financial Integration in East Asia," Econo Quantum (2005). Coeditor, The Political Economy of Income Inequality (2000); coeditor, Economic Cooperation and Integration: East Asian Experience (1997); coeditor, Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies: Lessons from the Japanese Experience (1995); coeditor, The State, Markets and Development (1994).

Working Papers: #291 Fujimor's Financiers: How Japan Became the Largest Aid Donor in Latin America and its Implications for Future Economic Development; #272 The 1997 Financial Crisis and Governance: The Case of South Korea; #270 Africa at the Crossroads in the Age of Globalization.