Dr. Bongo Adi

Assistant Professor of Economics
School of Arts and Sciences

Educational Background:

PhD, Interdisciplinary: Development Economics, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Bongo Adi's training spans the humanities and social sciences. He has been a UNU fellow and a World Bank Scholar. Upon graduation from the PhD in 2006 at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, he won the prestigious Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship award. As lead author, he won the 2006 Social Science Prize of the Social Science Journal for his work on rational choice. He is also a recipient of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) PhD thesis award.

Previous Posts:

JSPS Fellow/Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Visiting Fellow, Middlesex University Business School, UK
Postdoctoral Researcher, Data Mining, National Agricultural Research Center, Japan
Visiting Assistant Professor, Reitaku University, Chiba, Japan
Policy Analyst, Nigeria Economic Summit Group, Lagos Nigeria

Selected Publications:

"Determinants of Agricultural and Non-agricultural Livelihood Strategies: Evidence from Eastern Nigeria." Journal of Developing Areas, 40(2):93–94, Spring 2007.
"Revisiting the Rational Choice and Rationality Debate in the Social Sciences: Is Theory Possible without Rationality?" International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 1(6):27–38, 2006 (Joint)
Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology and Fate of Poor Farmer’s Agriculture. Journal of World Intellectual Property, 9(1):91–132, 2006.
"Japan FTA Network: Comparing The Bilateral and Regional Options in GTAP CGE Model." Studies in Regional Science, 34(2), 2006 (Joint).
"The Moral Economy and the Possibility of Accumulation in Africa." West Africa Review, 7, 2005.
"Reconstructing the Corporate Social Responsibility Construct in Utlish." Business Ethics, A European Review, 16(1):3–18, 2007. (Joint)
"Corporate Social Responsibility in Nigeria: Western Mimicry or Indigenous Influence?" Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 24:83–99, Winter 2006. (Joint)

Research Interests:

Poverty, Social Capital, Norms and Witchcraft, Institutions, CSR.

Selected Affiliations:

African Studies Association
Society for Theoretical Economics
Japan Economics Association
Regional Science Association International
Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland

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