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Created: 9/20/2000 Updated: 12/16/2010 Visits: 3,982	Dr. Masakazu Watanuki senior economic consultant Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Stop No. W0610 1300 New York Ave, NW Washington, DC 20577 United States http://www.iadb.org/ masakazuw@iadb.org 202-623-2949 (ph) 202-623-3030 (fx)

Biography
Masakazu Watanuki has been working at the Inter-American Development Bank since 1998, extensively engaged in conducting policy-oriented studies and providing technical support for countries and sub-regional blocs in Latin America and the Caribbean. His areas of expertise include regional integration, trade liberalization, agriculture, poverty and income distribution, food crisis, transport costs, infrastructure, international migration and remittances. He has been an active GTAP member since 2000, and a core member of the regional CGE workshop in Latin America and the Caribbean, launched jointly with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in 2007.

His major publications and contributions include: “New Regionalism in Latin America” and “Market Access”, in Beyond Borders: the New Regionalism in Latin America 2002; “Prospects and challenges for the liberalization of agricultural trade in the Western Hemisphere” in Integrating the Americas (2004), Rockefeller Center of Harvard University; ”Integration options for Mercosur: an quantitative analysis by the AMIDA Model” (2008), Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean, joint work with Getulio Vargas Foundation and Center for International Economics; “Andean countries at a cross roads: evaluating pro-poor trade integration options” in Modeling Public Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean (2010), IDB-ECLAC; “Evaluating the impact of transport costs in Latin America” (2012) and “Measuring the impact of international migration and remittances: will Latin America be a big winner?” (2012).

Before joining the Bank, he has worked as a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States and as a development expert in providing technical assistance and formulating national and regional development plans in many developing countries in Asia and Latin America. He holds a PhD in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Interest Areas
- Central America - Domestic policy analysis - Dynamic modeling - Economic analysis of poverty - Labor market issues - Preferential trading arrangements - South America

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- A Global Carbon Tax on Climate Change: Policy Implications for Latin America by Watanuki, Masakazu and Paolo Giordano Publication: Presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Geneva, Switzerland Resource Type: 2012 Conference Paper Keywords: Domestic policy analysis, Economic development, Climate change policy, Dynamic modeling, South Ameri... - Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Transport Costs in Latin America by Giordano, Paolo, Julio Guzman and Masakazu Watanuki Publication: Presented at the 14th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Venice, Italy Resource Type: 2011 Conference Paper Keywords: Domestic policy analysis, Economic development, Dynamic modeling, South America - Measuring the Impact of International Migration and remittances: Will Latin America be a big winner? by Watanuki, Masakazu and Julio Guzman Publication: Presented at the 13th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Penang, Malaysia Resource Type: 2010 Conference Paper Keywords: Domestic policy analysis, Economic growth, Economic development, Dynamic modeling - Is the Threat of Food Crisis Over?: Implications of Rising Food Prices on Central America by Watanuki, Masakazu and Paolo Giordano Publication: Presented at the 12th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Santiago, Chile Resource Type: 2009 Conference Paper Keywords: Domestic policy analysis, Economic analysis of poverty, Central America - Evaluating the impact of trade agreement for Central America: Does trade integration improve poverty and inequality? by Watanuki, Masakazu Publication: Presented at the 11th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Helsinki, Finland Resource Type: 2008 Conference Paper Keywords: Preferential trading arrangements, Economic analysis of poverty, Central America - Andean Countries at a Crossroads: Evaluating Pro-Poor Trade Integration Options by Giordano, Paolo, Maximiliano Méndez Parra and Masakazu Watanuki Publication: Presented at the 10th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Purdue University, USA Resource Type: 2007 Conference Paper Keywords: Preferential trading arrangements, Economic analysis of poverty, South America - Agriculture in the Doha Development Agenda: An Opportunity for Latin America ? by Giordano, Paolo, Maximiliano Méndez Parra and Masakazu Watanuki Resource Type: GTAP Application Keywords: Economic growth, North America, South America, Central America, Caribbean - Trade and Integration Policy Analysis for Mercosur: AMIDA Model with Imperfect Competition by Watanuki, Masakazu and Renato G. Flôres Publication: Presented at the 9th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Resource Type: 2006 Conference Paper - Trade and Integration Policy Analyses for Mercosur: Methodologies of the CGE Modeling with Economies of Scale and Imperfect Competition by Cicowiez, Martin, Renato Flores and Masakazu Watanuki Publication: Presented at the 8th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Lübeck, Germany Resource Type: GTAP Application, 2005 Conference Paper - The New Challenges of the Regional Trade Agenda for the Andean Countries by Monteagudo, Josefina, Rojas Laura, Augusto Stabilito and Masakazu Watanuki Publication: Presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Washington DC, USA Resource Type: 2004 Conference Paper Keywords: Preferential trading arrangements, South America - Impact of Agricultural Reform in the Western Hemisphere and the European Union on Latin America: Bright Prospects or Distant Illusions? by Monteagudo, Josefina and Masakazu Watanuki Publication: Presented at the 6th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands Resource Type: 2003 Conference Paper Keywords: Agricultural policies, Europe (Eastern), South America - FTAA in Perspective: North-South and South-South Agreements in the Western Hemispheric Countries by Watanuki, Masakazu Publication: Presented at the 5th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Taipei, Taiwan Resource Type: 2002 Conference Paper Keywords: Preferential trading arrangements, South America - Regional Trade Agreements for MERCOSUR: the FTAA and the FTA with the European Union by Monteagudo, Josefina and Masakazu Watanuki Publication: Draft Resource Type: GTAP Application

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