Suiwah Leung MCom (UNSW), MA , PhD (Johns Hopkins)   Associate Professor of Economics Crawford School of Economics and Government

Research interests/expertise

• International finance
• Financial sector developments
• Open economy macroeconomics
• Postgraduate economics education

Current Projects

• Vietnam Economic Research and Public Policy Project
• Exchange rates and financial sector developments in Australia, Asia and the Pacific
• International postgraduate education in Australia

Selected Publications

Books

• Globalization and Economic Development in the Mekong Economies (ed. Forthcoming) Edward Elgar publishers, UK, 2009.

• Vietnam and the East Asian Crisis (ed), Edward Elgar publishers UK, 1999

• Vietnam Assessment - Creating a Sound Investment Climate (ed), ISEAS/Curzon Press, Singapore and UK, 1996

Papers

• Leung S. and B. Bingham (2009 forthcoming) ‘Vietnam country case study’ in Bingham, Davies and Leung (eds), Globalization and Economic Development in the Mekong Economies, Edward Elgar, UK.

• Leung,S. (2009) ‘Integration and transition – Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR’ in Sustaining Development and Growth in East Asia, Timo Henckel (ed),  Routledge.

• Leung,S. (2003), 'The role of graduate studies at the Australian National University in the development of innovative human resources in the Asia-Pacific region'.
  Strategy of Human Resources Development in Science and Technology, Japan International Science and Technology Exchange Centre (JISTEC), Tokyo,
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• Leung,S. (1999), 'Crisis in Asia and Vietnam’s Economic Policy Response'.
  Vietnam and the East Asian Crisis, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 3-9.
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• Leung,S.; Doanh, L (1998), 'Vietnam'.
  East Asia in Crisis, McLeod, R. H.; Garnaut, R (ed), Routledge Publishing, 120-30.
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• Leung,S. (1997), 'Financial deregulation and trade expansion'.
  East Asian Trade after the Uruquay Round, Robertson, D. (ed), Cambridge University Press, 78-100.
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• Leung,S.; Vo, T. (1996), 'Vietnam in the 1980s - price reforms and stabilization'.
  Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, Vol. 197,
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• Leung,S. (1995), 'Exchange rate regimes and outward looking growth'.
  Sustaining Export Oriented Development in East Asia, Garnuat, Grilli, Reidel (ed), Cambridge University Press, 151-91.
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PhD Supervision 

Dr. Leung has supervised 14 PhD student theses to successful completion. Her current supervision load includes research on regional production network in Asia, remittances and financial flows in Vietnam, and social security policy in Vietnam.

Career Highlights

Dr. Leung consults regularly with AusAID, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the UN Development Program, and the Vietnamese government on macroeconomic and economic development issues. Between 2004 and 2008, Dr Leung held the post of Education Director at the Crawford School of Economics and Government.

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