A Primer on Development Economics: Towards Zero Hunger and No Poverty
暫譯: 發展經濟學入門：邁向零飢餓與無貧窮

Keijiro Otsuka is a distinguished honorary professor at Kobe University and a fellow of the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1979. Before joining Kobe University, he was a Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies from 2001 to 2016. Previously, he served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Rice Research Institute from 2004 to 2007, President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) from 2009 to 2012, and President of the Japanese Association for Development Economics from 2019 to 2024. He is an honorary life member of IAAE, a fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, a distinguished fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists and the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists, and a fellow of the Japanese Society of Agricultural Economics. He received the Purple Ribbon Medal in 2010 and the Orders of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star in 2021 from the Japanese government and became a member of the Japan Academy in 2018. He has conducted numerous case studies on agricultural and industrial development in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa over the last 40 years.

大塚圭二郎（Keijiro Otsuka）是神戶大學的榮譽教授，也是東京亞洲開發銀行研究所的研究員。他於1979年在芝加哥大學獲得經濟學博士學位。在加入神戶大學之前，他曾於2001年至2016年擔任國立政策研究所的教授。此前，他於2004年至2007年擔任國際稻米研究所的董事會主席，2009年至2012年擔任國際農業經濟學會（IAAE）會長，並於2019年至2024年擔任日本發展經濟學會會長。他是IAAE的榮譽終身會員，農業與應用經濟學會的研究員，非洲農業經濟學會和亞洲農業經濟學會的傑出研究員，以及日本農業經濟學會的研究員。他於2010年獲得紫綬褒章，並於2021年獲得日本政府頒發的瑞寶章金銀星勳章，並於2018年成為日本學士院的成員。在過去40年中，他對亞洲和撒哈拉以南非洲的農業和工業發展進行了大量案例研究。