Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in Asia

Dr. Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary is an associate professor of economics at Tokai University in Japan, and a visiting professor at Keio University, Japan. He completed his master’s degree in energy economics from Tehran University, Iran, in 2011 and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in energy economics from Keio University in 2015 with a scholarship from the government of Japan (MEXT). He taught as an assistant professor at Keio following the completion of his Ph.D. until March 2018 and teaching as an assistant professor at the faculty of political science and economics of Waseda University 2018-2020. He is a grantee of the Excellent Young Researcher (LEADER) status from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan with a 5 years’ competitive research grant (2019-2024).Dr. Taghizadeh-Hesary was visiting scholar, visiting professor and visiting fellow at several institutions and universities such as the Institute of Energy Economics of Japan (IEEJ) (2013–2015); the Credit Risk Database (CRD) association of Japan (2014–2015); Graduate School of Economics of the University of Tokyo (2016–2017), Griffith University, Australia (2019); The University of Tasmania, Australia (2019). Dr. Taghizadeh-Hesary has published on a wide range of topics, including energy economics, energy policy, green finance, small and medium-sized enterprises finance, monetary policy, and banking. Currently, he is serving as Associate Editor of Finance Research Letters (SSCI) and Associate Editor of Singapore Economic Review (SSCI). He has guest-edited special issues for prestigious journals including Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Finance Research Letters, The Singapore Economic Review, International Review of Economics and Finance, Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal of Economic Integration and Frontiers in Energy Research.  His research credits include authoring more than 80 academic journal papers and book chapters and the editing of six books. His most recent book is the “Handbook of Green Finance: Energy Security and Sustainable Development” (With Jeffery D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo and Naoyuki Yoshino) (Springer: 2019). Dr. Taghizadeh-Hesary led, managed and has been involved in dozens of research, capacity building and training (CBT) and consulting projects on energy, economic and financial related topics for international organizations, development banks, and governments of various countries. Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino is Professor Emeritus of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and Director of Financial Research Center (FSA Institute, Government of Japan). He obtained a PhD in economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1979 (where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters (UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Adviser)). He taught as assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, He was a visiting scholar at MIT (USA), visiting scholar at the Central Bank of Japan, visiting professor at the University of New South Wales (Australia), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France). He received Honorary Doctorates from Univ. of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). He also conferred Fukuzawa award from Keio University for his contribution to research. He was the Dean/CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) in Tokyo (2014-2020). Mr. Chul Ju Kim is Deputy Dean (CBT and Special Activities) of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). A national of the Republic of Korea, Chul Ju Kim was a secretary to the country’s President for economic and financial affairs before joining ADBI. For more than 30 years, he has been a key policy maker, dealing with a wide range of macroeconomic, financial, and social issues. He was deputy minister for planning and coordination, director general of the Economic Policy Bureau, and director general of the Public Policy Bureau, Ministry of Strategy and Finance. He also has extensive experience in international development, specifically at the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. He holds a BA in economics from Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, and an MS in finance from Georgia State University, USA. Mr. Kunmin Kim is Deputy Director of Public Institutions Reform Division at Ministry of Economy and Finance-Korea and in charge of management policies for SOEs and public institutions. He has studied National Graduate institution for Policy Studies (Master’s Degree) and Waseda University (Ph.D. Program). He has working experiences at ADBI as a Task Manager for policy capacity building & training program. His Korean government career encompasses both industrial and corporate policies.

Section 1: Corporate Governance, Strategy and the Legal framework.-Chapter 1: Strategy, Independence, and Governance of State-owned Enterprises in Asia (Henrique Schneider).-Chapter 2: Enhancing the Transparency and Accountability of State-Owned Enterprises (Chung-a Park and Hans Christiansen).- Chapter 3: Regulatory Frameworks for Reforms of State-Owned Enterprises in Thailand and Malaysia (Pornchai Wisuttisak and Nasarudin Bin Abdul Rahman).- Chapter 4: Reforming State-owned Enterprises in Asia: Lessons from Competition Law and Policy in India (Vijay Kumar Singh).- Chapter 5: State-owned Enterprises in Uzbekistan: Taking Stock and Some Reform Priorities (Umidjon Abdullaev).- Section 2: Privatization: Challenges and Solutions.- Chapter 6: The Effects of Privatization and Corporate Governance of SOEs in Transition Economy: Case of Kazakhstan (Keun Jung Lee).- Chapter 7: The Privatization of Japan Railway and Japan Post: Why, How, and Now (Chul Ju Kim and Michael C. Huang).- Chapter 8: Reform and Privatization of State Owned Enterprises in India (Kunmin Kim and N. Panchanatham).- Chapter 9: Privatization of Iranian State-Owned Enterprises: Barriers and Policy Recommendations (Mohsen Fazelian, Hooman Peimani, and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary).- Section 3: Evaluation of Performance and Country Studies.-Chapter 10. Necessity of Developing a Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for SOEs (Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino, Chul Ju Kim, Aline Mortha).- Chapter 11: Is the Management Evaluation System of State-Owned Enterprises in the Republic of Korea a Good Tool for Better Performance? (Jhungsoo Park, Jina Kim, Chul Ju Kim).- Chapter 12: State-owned Enterprise Reform in Viet Nam: Progress and Challenges (Le Ngoc Dang, Dinh Dung, and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary).- Chapter 13: State-owned Enterprises and Cluster-based Industrialization:  Evidence from Bangladesh (Monzur Hossain).- Chapter 14: State-Owned Enterprises in Singapore: Performance and Policy Recommendations (Youngho Chang).- Chapter 15: Obstacles to Doing Business in Asia: Cross-Country Analysis for State-Owned Enterprises and Private Firms(Thai-Ha Le, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, and Canh Phuc Nguyen).- Chapter 16: State-Ownership and Nationalisation in the Energy Sector: The Case Of Kazakhstan’s Oil Industry(Serik Orazgaliyev).