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GLOBAL EMISSIONS SCENARIO REPORT
December 2007 In December 2007 the Department of Premier and Cabinet
(VIC) commissioned a report on Global Emissions Scenarios to undertaken
by a team led by Professor Peter Sheehan of the CSES and Dr Roger Jones
of the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research for the Department of
Premier and Cabinet.
The central objective of the proposed work is to develop a new and more
realistic empirical foundation for climate analysis for use in the
Garnaut Review of Climate Change and its Economic Impact (commissioned
by Labour Party and State and Territory Governments in April 2007) and
to position that new foundation in the context of ongoing work by the
IPCC and other groups. This will involve building a reference projection
to 2030 of the anthropogenic factors influencing climate change,
developing different ways of extending that path out to 2100, describing
the likely climate implications of those paths using simple climate
models and other techniques, and exploring the policy implications of
these results.
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WORKSHOPS ON TRADE IN VIETNAM
December 2007 Prof
.Tran Van Hoa led, during 8-20 December 2007, a number of ARC-funded
workshops in major cities and provinces of Vietnam to present his work
with the Vietnam Institute for Trade (VIT), Ministry of Industry and
Trade (MOIT), on implementing improvements in economic and trade policy
in the country. The workshops were organised by VIT (an Industry Partner
in a 2004-2007 ARC Linkage Project) on Australia-Vietnam Trade) and
endorsed by H.E. Nguyen Van Linh, Vietnam Vice-Minister of Trade.
The workshops were attended by senior university and trade college
executives and academics, senior government officials, and select
postgraduate students. The work involves the implementation of a new
modelling policy approach, the so-called generalised gravity theory (GGT)
introduced by Tran Van Hoa in 2002, that provides significant
improvements in modelling outcomes and policy credibility and
reliability to all existing approaches that are currently used in this
field by national and international institutions (e.g., universities and
research institutes) and organisations (e.g., the World Trade
Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Asian
Development Bank). A description of the GGT is given in an award-winning
article of the the Journal of the Korean Economy (Korea’s trade, growth
of trade and the world economy in post-crisis ASEAN+3 free trade
agreement: An econometric and policy analysis’, vol. 5, no. 2, pp.
73-108).
At the workshops, the participants were informed of MOIT decision to
adopt this methodology for economic and trade analysis and
implementation at the practical and operational level by the Ministry.
The decision is highly significant for global government governance in
the sense of how quality government policy background support in Vietnam
(a major ASEAN, APEC and East Asia Summit member) is sought and for
using government-university partnership in formulating and implementing
economic and trade policy. The decision was also confirmed by H.E.
Nguyen Van Linh at the meeting with Prof Tran Van Hoa at the MOIT
Headquarter in Hanoi on 20 December 2007, where the Vice-Minister also
expressed his support for further collaboration between MOIT and
Victoria University on future work on economic and trade issues relevant
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CSES/BMI-T REPORT LAUNCHED
Decmeber 2007 On December 3rd, the Victorian Government released its
second Emerging Market Strategy report which takes as its subject the
assessment of South Africa as an ICT producer and consumer and what this
means for Victoria. This strategy report can assist Victorian ICT
companies in identifying and seizing ICT opportunities in South Africa.
The research for the report was undertaken for Multimedia Victoria (MMV)
by the CSES (Prof.
John Houghton) and
BMI-TechKnowledge Group (BMI-T) Johannesburg (Mandla Kuzwayo). It
provides market intelligence to the Victorian ICT industry by exploring
the:
• characteristics of the South African ICT market;
• characteristics of the South African ICT industry;
• opportunities and challenges; and
• issues relating to doing business in South Africa.
Visit the MMV website
for more details including the summary report, how to obtain a detailed
copy of the research and the related media release. | |
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PHD STUDIES IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
September 2007 The Centre is
seeking outstanding students for enrolment in the Centre’s 2008 PhD
program, for studies which link the knowledge economy with industry
structure, technological change and its implications, economic growth
and trade and the changing economic, industrial and technological
structure of the Asia Pacific region.
While supervision is available in a range of topics, the
Centre is currently focussed on four specific research areas:
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pharmaceutical and health economics
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energy use and
climate change
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converging
technologies
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governance and
regional issues
Supervision within the Centre can accommodate a range of methodological
approaches including potential candidates with strong economic modelling
skills.
For further
information about the Centre’s programs email us at csesinfo@vu.edu.au
or Ph. 61 3 9919 1340.
For general
inquiries, application forms and further information about postgraduate
research scholarships and study at Victoria University, please contact
the Postgraduate Scholarships Coordinator, Ms Lesley Birch, phone 03
9919 4659 or
lesley.birch@vu.edu.au. Please also visit the Postgraduate Studies
website at www.vu.edu.au/postgrad
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APEC LISF V FRAMEWORK PAPER
April 2007 The Life Science Innovation Forum (LISF) is one of 9 APEC
groups which work to support APEC's goals. These groups have a unique
relationship to the APEC process and do not fit into the APEC Committee
or Working Group structure.
Life Sciences innovation was recognized as a critical area of growth and
socio-economic development - healthy people produce healthy economies.
The Fifth LSIF was held in Adelaide, Australia on 19-20 April 2007, the
theme was ‘Developing an Integrated and Innovative Approach to Emerging
Health Challenges’. The meeting discussed ways for developing an
integrated approach to health system resource allocation.
Professor Peter Sheehan is Academic Vice-Chair of the APEC LISF. For the
Fifth LSIF, he prepared a framework paper with Bruce Rasmussen and Kim
Sweeny for discussion at the forum. Click here to download a copy of the
paper:
Developing an Integrated Approach to Emerging Health Challenges. | |
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