Stephen Howes
Director, International and Development Economics
1982-5: Bachelor of Arts (First-class Honours), University of Melbourne, Australia.
1987: Graduate Diploma in Development Economics, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University.
1988: Master of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Australian National University.
1989/90-92/3: Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
| Telephone: | 61 2 6125 7553 |
| Room: | JGC 2.88 |
| Email: | stephen.howes@anu.edu.au |
Prior to joining the Crawford School, Stephen was Chief Economist at the Australian Agency for International Development. He worked from 1994 to 2005 at the World Bank, first in Washington and then in Delhi, where he was Lead Economist for India. He spent most of 2008 on the Garnaut Review on Climate Change.
Research interests/expertise
- Aid policy
- Public finance in developing countries
- International climate change policy
- India
- Pacific and PNG
Blog entries
- The politics of climate change: Waiting for Copenhagen, November, 2009
- Can China rescue the world climate change negotiations?, September, 2009
- Vanuatu’s recent economic success: lessons for the Pacific, August, 2009
- Finding a way forward to a post-Kyoto global agreement on climate change, March, 2009
Recent Publications
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(2009) Review of S. Yusuf’s Development Economics through the Decades: a critical look at 30 years of the World Development Report, Asia Pacific Economic Letters, 23(2), 2009.
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Don’t wait for Copenhagen: implications of the climate change impasse for Australia and APEC,” Asialink essay, October 2009.
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‘Can China Rescue the Global Climate Change Negotiations?,’ Chapter 18 of China’s New Place in a World in Crisis, Garnaut, R., Song, L. and Thye Woo, W. (eds) ANU E Press, 2009-11-26
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With Nik Soni ‘Comment: Vanautu’s good recent growth performance’ in Pacific Economic Bulletin, Vol. 24(1), 2009
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‘Cheap but not easy: the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Papua New Guinea’ in Pacific Economic Bulletin, Vol. 24(1), 2009
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‘Finding a Way Forward: three critical issues for a post-Kyoto agreement on climate change’, forthcoming in Indian Growth and Development Review.
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- with R. Garnaut, F. Jotzo and P. Sheehan (2008) ‘Emissions in the Platinum Age: the implications of rapid development for climate change mitigation’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 24(2): 1–25.
- with D Mishra and VJ Ravishankar (2008) “Ten Years of World Bank Sub-national Policy-based Lending to India: a retrospective” in The Indian Economy Sixty Years after Independence, Jha, R, (ed), Palgrave-Macmillan.
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with R. Murgai (2006) “Subsidies and Salaries: issues in the restructuring of government expenditure in India,” Ch. 8 in A Sustainable Fiscal Policy for India: an international perspective, Heller, P. and Rao, Govinda M. (eds.), OUP.
- See also The Garnaut Climate Change Review, the 2008 Pacific Survey and the 2005 Core Group Recommendations Report for a White Paper on Australia’s Aid Program.
- with N. Stern and A. Lahiri (eds., 2003) State-level Reforms in India: Towards Effective Government, Macmilla
