Research interests

• Development Macroeconomics: capital flows and financial crises, structural adjustment and stabilisation reforms, determinants of economic growth.
• Trade and development: trade policy reforms, multinational enterprises and globalisation of production, patterns and determinants of trade flows, and international labour migration.

Current reseach projects

• Global production sharing, network trade and trade flow modeling.
• The economic rise of China: Adjustment pressure and challenges for the other developing countries.
• Foreign trade regimes and manufacturing employment (with special reference to India) (project funded by the Australian Research Council).
• Affirmative action policy, globalization and late-industrialization: The Malaysian experience.

Publications

10 books, 4 edited volumes, and 95 papers in scholarly journals and 60 chapters in multi-author volumes.

Selected Publications

• (2012) ‘Asian Trade Flows: Trends, patterns and Prospects’, Japan and the World Economy (forthcoming)
• (2012) [with E. S. Devadason] ‘The Impact of Foreign labour on Host Country Wages: The Experience of a Southern Host, Malaysia’, World Development (forthcoming).
• (2011) ‘Trade Liberalisation and the Poverty of Nations’, Journal of Development Studies, 47(3), 533-543.
• (2010) [with A. Kohpaiboon] ‘Multinational Enterprises and Globalization of R&D:  A Study of U.S-based Firms’, Research Policy, 39(10), 1335-1347.
• (2009) ‘The Rise of China and East Asian Export Performance: Is the Crowding-out Fear Warranted?’, World Economy, 32 (2), 234–66.
• (2006) ‘Trade Policy Reforms and the Structure of Protection in Vietnam’, World Economy, 29 (2), 161-87.
• (2004) [with K. Sen] ‘The Determinants of Private Saving in India’, World Development, 32 (3), 491-503.
• (2003) ‘Foreign Direct Investment in Crisis and Recovery: The East Asian Experience’, Australian Economic History Review, 43(2), 197-213.
• (2002) [With K. Sen] Saving, Investment and growth in India, Oxford University Press.
• (2000) [with S. Rajapatiran] Liberalization and Industrial Transformation: Sri Lanka in International Perspective, Oxford University Press.
• (2000) [with S. Rajapatirana] ‘Liberalization and Industrial Transformation: Lessons from the Sri Lankan Experience’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 48 (3), 543-572.
• (1999) [with C. Manning] Structural Change and International Migration in East Asia: Adjusting to Labour Scarcity, Oxford University Press.
• (1995) [with J. Menon] ‘Exchange Rates and Strategic Pricing in Swedish Manufacturing Exports’, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 57 (4), 529-542.
• (1995) [with S. Jayasuriya and E. E Oczkowski] ‘Developed and Developing Country Multinationals and Export Performance in Developing Countries: Some Analytical Issues with New Empirical Evidence’, Journal of Development Economics, 46 (1), 109-122.
• (1994) [with J. Menon] ‘Pricing to Market Behaviour and Exchange Rate Pass-through’, Economic Journal, 104 (423), 271-81.
• (1994) [with J. Riedel] ‘Demand and Supply Factors in the Determination of NIE Exports’, Economic Journal, 104 (427), 1411-14.
• (1993) ‘Manufactured Exports from Developing Countries and Their Terms of Trade: A Re-examination of Sarkar-Singer Results’, World Development, 21(10), 1607-13.
• (1991) ‘An Analysis of demand and Supply Factors in Agricultural Exports from Developing Asian Countries’, Weltwirtschaftlich Archive, 127 (4), 764-791.
• (1988) [S.K. Jayasuriya] ‘Parentage and Factor Proportions: A Comparative Study of Third-World Multinationals in Sri Lankan Manufacturing’, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 50(4), pages 409-23, November.

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Career highlights

• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 2003.
• Listed in The Australian Who’s Who since 2005.
• Editorial board member of Asian-Pacific Literature, Assistant Editor of Asian Economic Papers and member of editorial advisory boards of ASEAN Economic Bulletin and Journal of South Asian Development.
• Member of the Advisory Board of the European Centre for International Political Economy, Brussels, Belgium since 2006.
• Consultant (at various times) to World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Labour Organization,  United National Conference on Trade and tariff (UNCTAD), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), International Labour Organization (ILO), Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and the government of Sri Lanka.

Teaching

• IDEC 8022 Economic Development

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