Kwan S. Kim
Professor of Economics
(PhD, University of Minnesota, 1967)
O-220 Hesburgh Center
574-631-5179
email: kkim@nd.edu
http://kellogg.nd.edu/faculty/fellows/kim2.shtml
Geographic focus: East Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa
Thematic interests: Comparative development paradigms; global poverty gap; issues on trade and finance for emerging markets.
Current research: Global crisis and consequences for poverty; continuing with the project on the political economy of East Asian development, with a focus on the new geopolitical role of China.
Selected publications: “Possibilities and Challenges for Financial Integration in East Asia," EconoQuantum 2, 1 (2005); “Globalization and Labor: Issues of Income Polarization," Journal of Global Awareness 4, 1 (2003); “Market Liberalization and the Problem of Governance in S. Korea,” Huang ed. The Political Economy of Transition in E. Asia (2001); The Political Economy of Income Inequality (coedited, 2000); Growth, Distribution and Political Change: Asia and the Wider World (coedited, 1999); Economic Cooperation and Integration: Asian Experience (coedited, 1997); El Ecuador en el Mercado Mundial (coauthored, 1997); "Income Distribution and Poverty: An Interregional Comparison," World Development 25, 11 (1997); Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies: Lessons from the Japanese Experience (coedited, 1995); The State, Markets and Development (coedited, 1994); Estrategias de Desarrollo para el Futuro de México (1989); Debt and Development in Latin America (coedited, 1985); “Structure of Foreign Trade and Income Distribution in Mexico,” Development Economics (1984); Política Industrial y Desarrollo en Corea del Sur (1985); Korean Agricultural Research: The Integration of Research and Extension (coauthored, 1982); Papers on the Political Economy of Tanzania (coedited, 1979); “Sluggish International Capital Movements and Economic Growth,” Canadian Journal of Economics (1971).
Working Papers: #291 Fujimori'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.
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