Prema-chandra Athukorala, BCom (Hons), PhD (LaTrobe)
Professor of Economics, Division of Economics and Australia South Asia Research Centre

Email: prema-chandra.athukorala@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

I am currently working on foreign trade and investment in economic transition in Vietnam (book based on research undertaken for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank); growth, employment and equity in Malaysia (book); international food safety standards and processed food exports from India and Thailand (project funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research); and international product fragmentation and trade patterns.

Research Interests

Development macroeconomics: international capital mobility and financial crisis; structural adjustment and stabilisation reforms; and determinants of economics growth. Trade and development: trade policy reforms, multinational enterprises and international production, patterns and determinants of trade flows, and international labour migration.

Key Publications

• Trade Policy Issues in Asian Development, Routledge, London, 1998.
• (with C. Manning) Structural Change and International Labour Migration in East Asia, Oxford University Press, 1999.
• (with S. Rajapatirana) Liberalisation and Industrial Transformation: Sri Lanka in International Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Crisis and Recovery in Malaysia: The Role of Capital Controls, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2001.
• (with K. Sen) Saving Investment and Growth in India, Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Four other books, two edited volumes and over 100 papers in scholarly journals and multi-author volumes.

Career Highlights

Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2003; Lecturer (1985-89) and Senior lecturer (1990-94), La Trobe University; Consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, International Labour Organisation, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation and the Economics Commission for Asia and the Pacific on a number of research projects; visiting positions at the John Hopkins University, University of East Anglia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, the Malaysian Institute of Economics Research and the Institute of Policy Studies, Colombo.