Research interests/expertise

• Development thought and policy
• Agriculture and development
• International firms and indigenous business in developing countries
• Development institutions, including the World Bank
• Poverty reduction and urbanisation

Current projects

• Agriculture and development in late colonial Papua New Guinea
• Australian firms in the South Pacific
• Post-independence politics in developing countries, particularly Kenya, Papua New Guinea and Fiji

Selected publications

• with Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty ' The Global Financial Crisis: Foreclosing or Leveraging Labor's Future?' in Martjin Konings ed. The Great Credit Crash London: Verso, 2010
• `Plenty of Poverty or the Poverty of Plenty? The World Bank at the Turn of the Millenium' in David Moore ed. The World Bank: Development, Poverty, Hegemony Scottsville: University of KwaZuluNatal Press, 2007
• `The Poverty of Plenty' Historical Materialism V.11, No.1, 2003
• with Vilitati M Daveta `Electoral Democracy,  Coups, and Indigenous Commerce: The Case of Tourism in Fiji, 1987-1999' in Tiina Kontinen and Maaria Seppanen eds. Development-concepts, policies and practices. Essays in the Memory of Michael Cowen Helsinki: Finnish Society for Development Studies, 2003

Teaching

• Poverty Reduction (POGO 8004)
• Development Theories and Themes (POGO 8072)
• Theories of Development (POGO 8095) 

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