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Prema-chandra Athukorala

Emeritus Professor of Economics, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy

Qualifications

BCom (Hons), PhD (LaTrobe)

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Career Highlights

  • Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK since 2012
  • 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.

Current Research Projects

  • 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.

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.

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