Economic Integration, Currency Union, and Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in East Africa

Almas Heshmati
is Professor of Economics at Jönköping University and
Sogang University. He held similar positions at the Korea University, Seoul
National University, University of Kurdistan Hawler, RATIO Institute (Sweden)
and the MTT Agrifood Research (Finland). He was Research Fellow at the World
Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), The United Nations
University during 2001-2004. From 1998 until 2001, he was an Associate
Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has a Ph.D.
degree from the University of Gothenburg (1994), where he held a Senior
Researcher position until 1998. His research interests include applied microeconomics,
globalization, development strategy, efficiency, productivity and growth with
application to manufacturing and services. In addition to more than 150
scientific journal articles he has published books on EU Lisbon Process, Global
Inequality, East Asian Manufacturing, Chinese Economy, Technology Transfer,
Information Technology, Water Resources, Landmines, Power Generation, Renewable
Energy, Development Economics, World Values, Poverty and Economic Growth.