Prof. Richard Pomfret

Development Economics III/IIID and International Finance.

Research interests have centred on economic development and international economics. He has written sixteen books, including Investing in China 1979-1989; Ten Years of the Open Door Policy (1991), The Economies of Central Asia (1995), Asian Economies in Transition (1996), The Economics of Regional Trading Arrangements (1997; paperback edition 2002), and Constructing a Market Economy: Diverse Paths from Central Planning in Asia and Europe (2002). A book co-authored with Kathryn Anderson, Consequences of Creating a Market Economy: Evidence from Household Surveys on Central Asia, will be published in 2003. He has also written textbooks on Canadian economic development, international trade theory and policy, and development economics, and edited a textbook on Australia's trade policies (written by members of the Adelaide School of Economics).

Richard Pomfret, Professor, received his PhD from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Before coming to Adelaide in 1992, he was Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC, Bologna (Italy) and Nanjing (China). He previously worked at Concordia University in Montréal and the Institut für Weltwirtschaft at the University of Kiel in Germany. He has also held one-semester visiting positions at La Trobe University (1979), the American University of Paris (1990), Simon Fraser University and Fudan University in Shanghai (1991), and Vanderbilt University (1996).

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R. Pomfret, "The Central Asian Economies since Independence", fortcoming Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

R. Pomfret, “Currency Areas in Theory and Practice”, Economic Record, 81 (253), June 2005, p.166-76.

R. Pomfret, “Trade Policies in Central Asia after EU Enlargement and before Russian WTO Accession”, Economic Systems, 29(1), March 2005, p.32-58.

R. Pomfret, “Sequencing Trade and Monetary Integration”, Journal of Asian Economics, 16 (1), February 2005, p.105-24.

R. Pomfret, “State-Directed Diffusion of Technology: The Mechanization of Cotton-Harvesting in Soviet Central Asia”, Journal of Economic History, 62(1), March 2002, p.170-88.

R. Pomfret and K.H Anderson, “Relative Living Standards in New Market Economies: Evidence from Central Asian Household Surveys”, Journal of Comparative Economics, 30(4), December 2002, p.683-708.

The Economics of Regional Trading Arrangements (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997; paperback edition with new Preface, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001)

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• Unpublished papers
• Co-authored papers

He is an International Research Fellow, Kiel Institute of World Economics and an Associate Fellow, Centre for Euro-Asian Studies at Reading University. He plays for University in the South Australian Masters Soccer League.

Richard Pomfret has acted as adviser to the Australian government and to international organizations. In 1993 he was seconded to the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific for a year, acting as adviser on macroeconomic policy to the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. In 1996 he spent six months at the OECD in Paris where he prepared a report on China's role in the world economy and in 2002-3 he spent three months at the OECD preparing a report on the economies of Central Asia (report (pdf 308kB) ). He has advised the World Bank on its aid program to the seven poorest CIS countries (www.cis7.org) and the Asian Development Bank on Central Asia. Since 2001 he has been a resource person for the Global Development Network, which aims to promote research capacity in poor countries, and he has co-edited with Gur Ofer a collection of papers by researchers in the former Soviet Union (GDN book (pdf 8kB) ).

"The IMF and the Ruble Zone".
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"Economic Diversification of the New Independent Central Asian Countries", paper to be presented at the International Conference on Economic Diverisfication of Small States, held in Brunei in 12-13 November 2001.
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"Turkmenistan: From Communism to Nationalism by Gradual Economic Reform" - revised version published in MOCT-MOST: Economic Policy in Transitional Economies, 11(2), 2001.
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"The Uzbek Model of Economic Development 1991-9" - revised version published in Economics of Transition, 8(3), November 2000.
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"Regional Trade Arrangements and Economies in Transition: The Central Asian Countries", paper presented at an ITFA session at the American Economics Association conference in New Orleans in January 2001 - a related paper was published as "Reintegration of Formerly Centrally Planned Economies into the Global Trading System" in ASEAN Economic Bulletin 18(1), April 2001.
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"State-directed Diffusion of Technology: The Mechanization of Cotton-harvesting in Soviet Central Asia".
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"National Borders and Disintegration of Market Areas in Central Asia", this draft January 2001, of a paper presented at the pre-conference National Borders and Disintegration of Market Areas in East Central Europe in the 19th. and 20th. Century  in Frankfurt/Oder - preparatory for the IEHA Congress in Buenos Aires in July 2002
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"Social Policy in Central Asia", last revised August 1999, revised version published in MOCT-MOST (Economic Policy in Transitional Economies) 9(4), 1999.
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"Agrarian Reform in Uzbekistan: Why has the Chinese Model Failed to Deliver?" revised version published in Economic Development and Cultural Change 48 (2), January 2000, p.269-84.
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"Transition and Democracy in Mongolia", revised version published in Europe-Asia Studies (formerly Soviet Studies), 52(1), January 2000, p.149-60.
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"Aid and Ideas: The Impact of Western Economic Support for the Muslim Successor States", paper presented at a conference at Tel Aviv University in November 1999, to be published in Y. Ro’i (ed.) Democracy and Pluralism in the Muslim Areas of the Former Soviet Union (Frank Cass, London, forthcoming).
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"Enlargement to Include Formerly Centrally Planned Economies: ASEAN and EU compared", paper presented at a conference in Como, Italy, in April 1998, published in R. Strange, J. Slater and C. Molteni (eds) The European Union and ASEAN: Trade and investment issues (Macmillan, Basingstoke UK and St. Martin's Press, New York, 2000), p.225-37.
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"Canada and the World Economy" on Canadian Economic History cd-rom edited by R. Hesketh for Prentice-Hall, Canada.
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"Trade Policy in Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century", presented at the Canadian Economic History conference in Kananaskis in April 1999, revised in November 1999, revised version published in Australian Economic History Review, 40(2), July 2000, p.114-26.
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"Measuring the Degree of Capital Mobility: What does the Feldstein - Horioka equation test?" revised in May 1998, published in S.B. Dahiya (ed) The Current State of Economic Science vol. 3 (Spellbound Publications, for the Jan Tinbergen Institute of Development Planning, Rohtak, India, 1999), p.1447-54.
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“Regional Perspectives on International Economic Law” revised in December 2000, forthcoming in A.H. Qureshi (ed.) Perspectives in International Economic Law (Kluwer, Doordrecht).
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"Subregional Trade Initiatives in Central Asia", revised in June 1999, forthcoming in R. Dwan and O. Pavliuk (eds.) Subregional Cooperation in and Around CIS Space (M.E. Sharpe, Armonk NY).
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"Transition to a Market Economy, Poverty and Sustainable Development in Central Asia", paper presented at the Council for Sustainable Development of Central Asia conference in Urumqi, China, in August 1998; summary published in M. Banskota, A.S. Karki and F.W. Croon (eds.) Strategic Considerations on the Development of Central Asia (Council for Sustainable Development of Central Asia, Bussum, Netherlands, 1999), p.67-8.
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"Development Strategies and Prospects for the Future", paper presented at the Central Asia 2010 conference in Almaty, Kazakstan in July 1998; summary version published in United Nations Development Programme Central Asia 2010 (United Nations, New York, 1999), p.58-65.
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"Macroeconomic Pressures", first draft (November 1999) of Chapter 4 in S. Savas, J. Falkingham and M. McKee (eds.) Health Care in the Central Asian Republics: Cross-country sub-regional comparisons.
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"Uzbekistan: Income Distribution and Social Structure during Transition", paper presented at WIDER conference in Helsinki in May 1999, revised June 1999.
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"Reform Paths in Central Asian Economies", paper prepared for WIDER, April 1997, revised version published in G.A. Cornia & V. Popov (eds.) Transition and Institutions (Oxford UP, 2001).
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"Relative Living Standards in New Market Economies: Evidence from Central Asian Household Surveys", paper given at a seminar at ANU in October 2001; a revised version will be presented at the American Economics Association conference in Atlanta in January 2002.
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"Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the Kyrgyz Republic, 1993-7", paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Enterprise in Transition, sponsored by the University of Split, held in Hvar (Croatia) 24-6 May 2001.
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"Gender Effects of Transition: The Kyrgyz Republic", paper presented at the American Economics Association conference in New Orleans in January 2001.
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"Economic Development Strategies in Central Asia since 1991”, revised October 2000, revised version published in Asian Studies Review, June 2001.
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"Gradual Economic Reform and Well-being in Uzbekistan", originally circulated as WIDER WP 135 in June 1997, this version is forthcoming in G.A. Cornia (ed.) Poverty, Income Distribution and Well-being in Asia During the Transition (Macmillan, Basingstoke UK).
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"Poverty in the Kyrgyz Republic", revised version published as "Poverty in Kyrgyzstan" in Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 6(1), June 1999, p.73-88.
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"Transition and Poverty in Central Asia", presented at Melbourne conference in July 1998, revised version published in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 25(2), 1998.
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"Living Standards during Transition to a Market Economy; The Kyrgyz Republic in 1993 and 1996", earlier version presented at the American Economics Association conference in New York in January 1999, this version presented at the International Economics Association Conference in Buenos Aires in August 1999. Revised version published in Journal of Comparative Economics, 2000.
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