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Author: Almas Heshmati ,
Pham Khanh Nam
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN: 9789819605385
ISBN 10: 9819605385
Pages: 215
Publication Date: 04 April 2025
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Almas Heshmati is Research Fellow at University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jönköping University, Sweden. He held similar positions at the Sogang University, Korea University, Seoul National University, University of Kurdistan Hawler, and the MTT Agrifood Research (Finland). He was Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) and 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 economics, efficiency, productivity, and growth with application to agriculture, manufacturing and services, environmental economics, energy economics, and well-being. In addition to many 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, Well-being, and Economic Growth. Pham Khanh Nam is a senior research fellow and director of the Environment for Development Center (EfD-Vietnam) at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh city (UEH University). He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His areas of research interest are environmental and natural resources economics, climate change, and experimental economics. Currently, his research focuses on forest devolution policy, marine plastic pollution, and renewable energy in Vietnam. He has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Oxford Economic Paper, Land Use Policy, or Journal of Development Studies. Pham Khanh Nam has been actively involved in the revision of the Vietnamese Law of Environmental Protection as well as other policy dialogues on circular economy and green growth strategy. He is a member of several task forces under Vietnam’s Central Economic Committee and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. He has consulted the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, IUCN, and Vietnam Environment Administration.
