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Miss Yoko Niimi

Research Affiliate     Bcom (Edinburgh), MA (Kobe), MA (Sussex)     CV

Yoko is an economist with research interests in the poverty impact of trade liberalisation, migration and non-income measurement of inequalities. She is currently working as a consultant in the Development Research Group, the World Bank, on a migration project. Yoko is working on the assessment of the importance and impact of remittances on Japanese-Brazilian population in Brazil and the analysis of the poverty impact of migration/remittances in Vietnam. She is also pursuing her DPhil research at the University of Sussex, examining households' behavioural response to liberalisation-induced food price shocks.

Contact Details

Email:   yniimi@worldbank.org


Recent Publications

'Linking Trade Liberalization and Poverty: An Illustration from Vietnam in the 1990s'   Niimi, Y., P. Vasudeva-Dutta and L.A. Winters
Globalization and Poverty: Channels and Policy Responses, Routledge (Bussolo, M. and J. Round, eds) (forthcoming 2005)

'An Analysis of Household Responses to Price Shocks in Vietnam: Can Unit Values Substitute for Market Prices?'   Niimi, Y.
PRUS Working Paper 30 (2005)

'Storm in a Rice Bowl: Rice Reform and Poverty in Vietnam in the 1990s'   Niimi, Y, Vasudeva-Dutta, P. and Winters, L.A.   Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Volume 9 (2), (2004)

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