They have the technical expertise which is required to work on individual countries of Asia and Africa, and this is combined with a wide range of disciplinary approaches to Economics. Adequate analysis, in the context of Asia and Africa, requires a rigorous specification of the interplay between the economic, on the one hand, and the nature of the political system and social structure on the other, which is one of the special features of the Department. Agricultural development in China in the 20th century, and post-1949 Chinese agricultural policy, structural change in North and South Korea. China and Korea. Teaching includes comparative economic growth.
Teaching includes economics of development.
Teaching includes economics of Africa, political economy of development. Teaching includes intermediate economic analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis for Developing Countries and Middle Eastern Economics. Director of the Centre for Financial and Management Studies. Teaching interests include applied econometrics. Institutional economics, the economics of rent-seeking, corruption and clientelism, industrial policy and state intervention in developing countries.