Hal Hill is the H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. His main research and teaching interests focus on various aspects of the economies of Southeast Asia.

He is the author/editor of 16 books and about 140 journal articles and book chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of 13 academic journals, and is an advisor to AusAID, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and United Nations agencies.

2011 highlights included an official state visit to Indonesia under that country’s “Presidential Friends of Indonesia” program, and election as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia.

He teaches a course on the Southeast Asian economies every other year. For the latest course outline, please see below.

He is also currently president of ADEW, the Australasian Development Economics Workshop, a group of development economists that, in association with AusAID, organizes a major annual international conference at an Australian university.

Recent publications

• Hill, H., M.E. Khan, and J. Zhuang (eds), Diagnosing the Indonesian Economy: Toward Inclusive and Green Growth, Anthem Press, London, pp 482 + xxi. ISBN: 9780857284471.
• Hill, H., Tham Siew Yean, Ragayah Haji Mat Bin (eds), Malaysia’s Development Challenges: Graduating from the Middle, Routledge, London, 2012.
• Basri, M. C., and H. Hill, ‘Indonesian Growth Dynamics’, Asian Economic Policy Review, 6 (1), 2011, pp. 90-107.
• Hill, H. and J. Menon, ‘Reducing vulnerability in transition economies: crises and adjustment in Cambodia, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 28 (2), 2011, pp, 134-159.
• Bird, K. and H. Hill, ‘Tiny, Poor, Landlocked, Indebted, But Growing: Lessons for Late Reforming Transition Economies from Laos’, Oxford Development Studies, 38 (2), 2010, pp. 117-143.
• Aswicahyono, H., H. Hill, D. Narjoko (2010), ‘Industrialisation after a Deep Economic Crisis: Indonesia’, Journal of Development Studies. 46 (6), 2010, pp. 1084-1108.
• P.-C. Athukorala, P.-C. and H. Hill, ‘Asian Trade and Investment: patterns and trends’, in P.-C. Athukorala (ed), The Rise of Asia: Trade and Investment in Global Perspective, Routledge, 2010, pp. 11-57.

Versions of most of these can be found in working paper form at the Arndt-Corden web site for working papers: http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/acde/publications/

Recent opinion pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Global Asia, The Australian, Australian Financial Review, Straits Times, and Canberra Times.

Current research projects

• Southeast Asian development dynamics (manuscript in progress).
• Growing out of conflict in Cambodia (with Jayant Menon, Asian Development Bank).
• Industrialization in Indonesia (with Haryo Aswicahyono, CSIS Jakarta, and Dionisius Narjoko, ERIA Jakarta).
• Middle-income developing Asian economies after the global financial crisis (with Corina Gochoco-Bautista, Asian Development Bank, and a group of paper-writers).
• Indonesian universities in transition (with Thee Kian Wie, LIPI Jakarta).

Teaching

Course Outline Semester 2, 2010 ECON3009/3019/8049 [PDF 95KB]

• Southeast Asian Economic Policy and Development (P) (ECON3009)
• Southeast Asian Economic Policy and Development (H) (ECON3019)
• Southeast Asian Economic Policy and Development (ECON8049)

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