Jeet Bahadur Sapkota is Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Associate at the Global Institute of Asian Regional Integration, Waseda University, and Asian Development Bank Insti-tute, Tokio, Japan. His research interests are reflected in papers ‘Mainstreaming Globalization in Poverty Reduction’ (2010), and ‘Globalization's Convergence Effect on Human Development in the Asia-Pacific: Evidence from the KOF Index of Globalization’ (2010).