School of Accounting and Finance

Kishor is a Professor in economics and has published widely in trade and development issues. He has published/ edited six books and written about 45 journal articles and books chapters. He has been a consultant to international organisations including, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Industrial Organisation (UNIDO).Before taking up his present academic position, he was a Project Economist under the UNV program of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Western Samoa and was a Section Officer in the Industrial Development Bank in Nepal. Kishor has held visiting appointments at Yale University, the Australian National University and the University of Nottingham, UK.

Teaching Responsibilities

• ECO210 Labour Economics
• ECO320 international Economics
• ECO503 International Economics
• HRM501 Labour Market Studies

AdministrativeResponsibilities

• Member in various Faculty level committees
• A key member in International Development Strategic Research area within the ILWS

Research Focus

• Trade flow analysis
• Analysis of industrial structure and investment pattern
• Trade and development issues
• WTO issues.

Research Project Supervision

• Trade and Development Issues
• Trade and Investment Flow Analysis
• WTO issues

Current Research Students

• Mark Hill, PhD. Title: The determinants of Australian outward investment.
• Lionel Bopage, DBA. Title: How has trade liberalisation affected the Australian passenger motor vehicle industry.
• Mrs Oyunbadam Davaakhuu, Phd. Title: Regionalisation and WTO issues for Mangolia.

Grants and Awards

• CSU competitive grants, $11000 (2002 and 2006)
• ARC-APFRN grants (with Y. Bandara), $6500 (2007)
• AusAID grants $21000 (2004)
• Recipient of Faculty Research Excellence Award
• Attracted over $500000 of research grants from external sources including AusAID.

Professional Activities

Member, Economic Society of Australia

Referee for leading international journals namely, Journal of International Business Studies, World Development, Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, Journal of Developing Areas, Economic Analysis and Policy, Translational Corporations, Journal of Asia Pacific Economy and China Economic Review. Also, reviewed book manuscripts for Routledge.

External examiner of doctoral theses completed at University of Newcastle, University of Western Sydney, Victoria University

Consultancies:

Asian Development Bank consultant to Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan to review trade policy, 2003.

UNIDO consultant to Nepal to assist Government of Nepal in preparing the Industrial Development Perspective Plan : Vision 2020, 2001.

Selected Publications:

Books

• Trade and Development in Transition: Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan( New York: NOVA Science), 2007.
• Child Labour in South Asia, (London: Ashgate), 2007 (Edited book with G. Herath). My contribution 50%.
• Trade, Growth and Inequality in Developing countries (London: Routledge), 2006 (Edited book with O. Morrissey). My contribution 50%.
• Trade Policy, Growth and Poverty in Asian Developing Countries (London: Routledge) 2003 (Edited book).
• Trade Liberalisation and Manufacturing Performance in Developing Countries: New Evidence from Nepal (New York: NOVA Science Publishers) 1999.
• Indo-Nepal Trade: Problems & Prospects (Kathmandu, Nepal: Ratna Pustak Bhandar) 1987.

Book Chapter

• 'Trade, Growth and Inequality in the Era of Globalization' (with O. Morrissey) in K. Sharma and O. Morrissey (eds.), Trade, Growth and Inequality in the Era of Globalisation, Routledge, 2006.
• 'Poverty, Inequity and Civil War in Nepal: Causes, Effects and Reconstructions Strategies' in C. Tisdell (ed.) Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, and Social Disadvantage, Serial Publications, 2007.
• 'Growth and Poverty in Tajikistan' in K. Sharma and O. Morrissey (eds.), Trade, Growth and Inequality in the Era of Globalisation, Routledge, 2006.
• 'Growth, Poverty and Inequality and Kyrgyzstan', in K. Sharma and O. Morrissey (eds.), Trade, Growth and Inequality in the Era of Globalisation, Routledge, 2006.
• 'WTO and Child Labour Rules in South Asia', in G. Herath and K. Sharma (eds.) Child Labour in South Asia, Ashgate, 2007.
• 'Trade, Growth and Child Labour: An Issue', (with G. Herath) in G. Herath and K. Sharma (eds.) Child Labour in South Asia, Ashgate, 2007.
• 'Foreign Investment in Nepal' (with P. Athukorala) in R. Jha (ed.) Economic Growth, Economic Performance and Welfare in South Asia, pp. 323-340, Palgrave, 2005.
• 'Development Challenges of a Newly Independent Sate: The Lessons from Tajikistan', in C. Tisdell (ed) Globalisation and World Economic Policies, pp. 496-510, Serial Publications, 2005.
• 'Trade Policy, Growth and Poverty: The Issues', in K. Sharma (ed.) Trade Policy, Growth and Poverty in Asian Developing Countries, pp. 3-19. Routledge, 2003.
• 'Trade Policy Regimes, Growth and Poverty the Nepalese Experience', in K. Sharma (ed.) Trade Policy, Growth and Poverty in Asian Developing Countries, pp. 214-224. Routledge, 2003 (with B. Karmacharya).
• 'What Have We Learned from the Asian Experience', in K. Sharma (ed.) Trade Policy, Growth and Poverty in Asian Developing Countries, pp. 237-241. Routledge, 2003 (with G. Herath)
• 'Trade Liberalisation and Export Diversification in Nepal' (with O. Morrissey, Chapter 6) in O. Morrissey and M. Tribe (eds.) Economic Policy and Manufacturing Performance in Developing Countries, pp. 120-137. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2001.
• 'Liberalisation and Structural Change: Nepalese Manufacturing Since the mid 1980s' in Dutta, D. (ed.) Economic Liberalisation and Institutional Reform in South Asia: Recent Experiences and Future Prospects, pp. 337-367. Atlantic Publishers, 2000.
• 'Liberalisation and Productivity Growth' in S. B. Dahyia (ed.) The Current State of Business Discipline, Vol. 2, pp. 817-832. Spellbound Publishers, 2000.
• 'Trade Policy Reforms and Industrialisation in Nepal' in R. Shand (ed.) Economic Liberalisation in South East Asia, Chapter 15, pp. 295-319, Macmillan Limited, 1999.
• 'Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: An International Comparison' in S. B. Dahyia (ed.) The Current State of Economic Science, Vol. 3, pp. 1234-1252, Spellbound Publishers, 1999.

Refereed Journal Articles

• ‘Trade and Environment in China: An Input-Output Perspective on the Pollution-haven Hypothesis’, International Journal of Economics and Business Research, (with Shi, Murphy, Hicks and Arthur) Vol 5 (4), pp. 420-432, 2013.
• ‘Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in China’, (with Jinag and Wang), Global Business Review, 2013 (forthcoming).
•  ‘Role of Price and Non-price Factors in Predicting Australia’s International Competitiveness’ Applied Economics (with PJ Gunawardana). Vol 44 (21), pp 2679-2686, 2012.
• ‘Politics and Governance in Nepal’, The Asia-Pacific Journal of Public    Administration, Vol. 34 (1), pp. 57-70, 2012.
• ‘Exports and Energy Consumption in China: An Input-Output Perspective’ Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, Vol. 13 (4) pp 279-293, 2012.
• ‘Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Malaysia: New Evidence from Cointegration and Error Correction Model’, Journal of Developing Areas, (with Nayagam and Chung). Vol 46 (1), pp. 71-89, 2012.
• ‘Determinants of International Competitiveness: Further Evidence from Australian Manufacturing Trade’, Asia-Pacific Journal of Business and Economics, (with PJ Gunawardana),. Vol 15 (1), pp. 43-58, 2011.  
• ‘Foreign Aid, Governance and Economic Development in Nepal’, The Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 33 (2), pp. 95-116. 2011. 
• ‘Trend, Patterns and Determinants of Australian Foreign Direct Investment’, Journal of Economic Issues. (with Bandara) Vol. XLIV (3), pp. 661-676 , 2010.
• ‘The Determinants of Australian Manufacturing Export Performance’, Journal of International Finance and Economics, (with Gunawardana). Vol. 10 (1), 2010.
• ‘Inward FDI and Manufacturing Exports of Australia: A Panel Data Analysis’, Journal of International Finance and Economics, (with Gunawardana). Vol. 9 (1), pp. 98-105, 2009.
• ‘Labour Standards and WTO Rules Survey of the Issues with Reference of South Asia’, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLIII (1), 2009. 
• ‘Foreign Investment in a Least Developed Country: The Nepalese Experience’, (with P. Athukorala) Transnational Corporations, Vol. 15, (2), pp. 125-146, 2006.
• 'The Political Economy of Civil War in Nepal', World Development, Vol. 34(7), 2006.
• 'Development Policy, Inequality and Civil War in Nepal', Journal of International Development, Vol. 18, pp. 553-569, 2006.
• 'Trade Policy, Poverty and Inequity in Nepal', South Asia Economic Journal, Vol. 6 (2), pp. 241-250, 2005.
• 'Determinants of Efficiency in Developing Countries: Further Evidence from Nepal' (with E. Oczkowski), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 41 (4), pp. 617-630, 2005.
• 'Horizontal and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade in Australian Manufacturing: Does Liberalisation Have any Impact?', Applied Economics, Vol. 36, pp. 1723-1730, 2004.
• 'Horizontal and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade in Trans-Tasman Bilateral Trade', Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 19 (3), pp. 590-603, 2004
• 'The Impact of Policy Reforms on Labour Productivity, Price Cost Margin and Total Factor Productivity: The Nepalese Experience', South Asia Economic Journal, Vol. 5 (1), pp. 55-68, January-June 2004.
• 'Factors Determining India's Export Performance', Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 14. No. 3, pp. 435-446, June 2003. Cited by 13.
• 'How Important is the Processed Food Industry in Intra-Industry Trade Analysis?: The Australian Experience', Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 29 (3), pp. 121-130, 2002.
• 'Imperfect Competition, Returns to Scale and Productivity Growth in Australian Manufacturing: A Smooth Transition Approach to Trade Liberalisation', International Economic Journal, Vol. 15 (2), pp. 99-113, 2001 (with E. Oczkowski).
• 'Liberalisation, Export Incentives and Trade Intensity: New Evidence from Nepalese Manufacturing Industries', Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 12 (1), pp. 123-135, 2001 (with S. Jayasuriya and E. Oczkowski).
• 'Liberalization, Growth and Structural Change: Evidence from Nepalese Manufacturing', AppliedEconomics, Vol. 33, 2001.
• 'The Pattern and Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade in Australian Manufacturing', Australian Economic Review, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 245-255, 2000.
• 'Liberalisation and Productivity Growth: The Case of Manufacturing Industries in Nepal'. Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 28 (2), pp. 205-222, 2000 (with E. Oczkowski and S. Jayasuriya).
• 'Trade Policy and Productivity Growth: Experience of Nepalese Manufacturing', Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, Vol. 4 (2), pp. 303-314, 1998
• 'Economic Liberalisation and Manufacturing Productivity in Nepal', Agenda, Vol. 4 (2), pp. 177-184, 1997.
• 'Telecommunications Reform Agenda and Its Impact: The Australian Experience', Borneo Review, Vol. 4 (2), pp. 175-184, 1997 (with H. Kidane).
• 'Impact of Policy Reforms on Manufacturing Growth in Nepal', Asian Survey, Vol. 4 (3), pp. 550-560, 1997.
• 'Trade-orientation and Productivity Growth: A Review of the Theoretical Framework in the Context of Land-Locked Economies', Indian Economic Journal, Vol. 43 (3), pp. 89-99, 1996.
• 'Is Market Diversification Always Beneficial? Lessons from the Experience of Nepal', Borneo Review, Vol. 6 (1), pp. 37-49, 1995.
• 'Trade and Manufacturing in Nepal', The Asian Economic Review, Vol. 37 (1), pp. 58-86, 1995.
• 'Prospects for Development in Australia-ASEAN Trade Relations', Asian Profile, Vol. 22 (6), pp. 461-470, 1994.
• 'Trade-Orientation and Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature', The Economic Journal of Nepal, Vol. 19 (3), pp. 119-130, 1996.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

• 'Trade, Growth and Equity in Nepal' in T. S. Chan and G. Cui (eds.) Proceedings of the 2002 AIB Southeast Asia and Australia Regional Conference on WTO and Global Competition: A New Era for International Business, Shanghai, 2002.
• 'Trans-Tasman Intra-Industry Trade: Pattern and Determinants' in T. S. Chan and G. Cui (eds.) Proceedings of the 2002 AIB Southeast Asia and Australia Regional Conference on WTO and Global Competition: A New Era for International Business, Shanghai, 2002.
• 'Export growth in India: Has FDI Played a Role?' in Ngui, M, Yosida, E. and A. Zafar (eds.) Proceedings of the Academy of International Business South Asia Region, Australia, 2001.
• 'Determinants of Intra-industry Trade in Australian Manufacturing', Proceedings of the 9th World Conference on International Entrepreneurs, Singapore, 1999.
• 'Industrial Strategies, Foreign Trade Regimes and Productivity Growth in Nepal', Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Symposium on Asian Studies, pp. 175-203, 1997.
• 'Do Policy Reform Improve Efficiency and Benefit the Poor in Developing Countries?: Evidence from Nepal', in T. Senguder (ed.) Proceedings of Global Business and Finance Research Conference, London, pp. 191-196.