Uzbekistan Quality Job Creation as a Cornerstone for Sustainable Economic Growth

Shigehiro Shinozaki
is a senior economist at ERCD, ADB. He supports ADB’s 
DMCs in improving small and medium-sized enterprise access to finance 
through technical assistance projects. His advisory and research expertise 
includes policy issues in small and medium-sized enterprise development, 
inclusive finance, and financial sector development especially in developing 
Asia. Prior to joining ADB, he held expert positions, including as a special 
officer for development finance at Japan’s Ministry of Finance, an advisor to 
the Indonesian Capital Market and Financial Institution Supervisory Agency 
(Bapepam-LK) as JICA expert, and an administrator of the Directorate for 
Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation 
and Development (OECD). He holds a PhD in International Studies from 
Waseda University in Japan and a Master’s degree in business administration 
from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in France.
Marcel Schroder
is an assistant professor at the Lebanese American University 
in Byblos, Lebanon. He previously worked as a lecturer in Economics at the 
Development Policy Centre, Australian National University, and has been 
a visiting lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea. He has a strong 
interest in policy-oriented research centered around macroeconomic aspects 
of economic development, especially in resource-rich developing countries. 
His other interests include issues related to financial globalization and stability 
in emerging market economies.
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Kiyoshi Taniguchi
is a principal economist at the Pakistan Resident Mission, 
Central and West Asia Department, ADB. Previously, he was a principal 
economist at EREA, ERCD, where he led the preparation of many country 
diagnostic studies for ADB DMCs. He is also leading impact evaluation study 
teams. At ADB, he held several economist positions, including at the Private 
Sector Operations Department, Uzbekistan Resident Mission, and Pacific 
Department. Prior to ADB, he was an economist for the Poverty Reduction 
and Economic Management Network of the World Bank. He started his 
career as an economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the 
United Nations in Rome, Italy. He has held research and teaching positions 
at the International University of Japan, Westminster International University 
in Tashkent, and University of the Philippines. He holds a PhD and master’s 
degree in economics from the Ohio State University, bachelor of science in 
economics with honors from the University of Oregon, and bachelor of law 
from Chiba University in Japan.