About Jesus Felipe
I am Advisor to the Chief Economist, in the Economics and Research Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines, where I have worked since 1996. Between 2007 and 2011, I was Lead Economist in the Central and West Asia Department; and previously I was Principal Economist, Senior Economist and Economist in the Economics and Research Department. I held academic positions with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, PRC) during 1995-1996, and with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA), during 1999-2002 (while I was on leave from ADB). I undertook my undergraduate studies in Spain at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. I hold M.A. degrees from the International University of Japan and from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
I am a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. I am also a Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public Policy, University of Cambridge; the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), University of Newcastle (Australia); the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (CFEPS), University of Missouri-Kansas City; and the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York. I am a member of the Editorial Board of Metroeconomica.
My research interests spread across areas such as growth (especially the debate on the sources of growth in East Asia), the dynamics of structural change, industrial policy, inclusive growth and full employment, productivity, technological progress, the functional distribution of income, business cycles, and the path of profit rates.
Currently, I am working on a series of projects on Inclusive Growth, Industrial Policy and the Middle-Income Trap; as well as on the design of long-term development plans for energy, transport and urban services for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. During 2007-2011, I coordinated all economic analyses of the ex-Soviet Republics in Asia, and Pakistan. This included contributions to the Asian Development Outlook, growth diagnostics exercises, impact evaluation analyses, and Country Partnership Strategies. I also led a study on industrialization and structural change in Central Asia and Pakistan. These countries are transition economies, landlocked, dependent on natural resources facing problems to diversify their economic structures, and with low scores in trade facilitation.
I have co-authored and co-edited a book entitled Labor Markets in Asia: Issues and Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). This book was selected in 2006 by Princeton University as one of the Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics. In 2009, I published Inclusive Growth, Full Employment and Structural Change. Implications and Policies for Developing Asia (Anthem Press). And I am working on a book on the theoretical foundations of the aggregate production function and its implications for empirical analyses, entitled The Aggregate Production Function and the Measurement of Technical Change: A Critique and Evaluation.
I have published my research work in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Eastern Economic Journal, Metroeconomica, Journal of Income Distribution, International Review of Applied Economics, Journal of Development Studies, World Development, Journal Post Keynesian Economics, Oxford Development Studies, Economics of Education Review, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, among others.