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Toshihisa Toyoda (Japanese: 豊田利久) is a Japanese economist, with contribution in Econometrics and Development economics.
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In General
Toshihisa Toyoda was born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, on August 6, 1940. He attended Okayama Higashi High School, in Okayama City.
Toyoda received his Bachelor's degree from the Economics Faculty of Kobe University in 1964, and his Master's degree there in 1965. In 1968-91, he attended the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now called Tepper School of Business), Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his PhD in 1971.
In 1966, he began working as an assistant in the Economics Faculty of Kobe University, later becoming a lecturer and then an assistant professor of the same faculty. He became a professor in 1980.
From 1993 to 2003, Toyoda worked at Kobe University's Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, and, from 2004 to 2012, at the Graduate School of Economic Sciences at Hiroshima Shudo University, Hiroshima City. He is now a Professor Emeritus at Kobe University and a Professor Emeritus at Hiroshima Shudo University.
His contribution in the international arena also included doing research and teaching at University of Sussex (1988) and Beijing Normal University (2012). He, in 2010–2014, was professor by special invitation at Global Innovation Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, which is noted for working closely with overseas, especially with the Asian countries.
Econometrics and Development Economics
Toyoda's contribution has been in both Econometrics and Development economics. Of the two important books he has published on statistical treatment of economy and quantitative analysis of economy, the former book is in the third edition.
He also worked in the field of development economics. He was, in 2005-08, the president of Japan Society of International Development (JASID), in which many Asians also participate. He particularly contributed to the colleges and universities of the Asian countries, for example, in the establishment of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, National University of Laos, Vientiane, Laos.
Publication
Toyoda has published important theses and books related to economics, both in Japanese and English: