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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.

 

   

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 and of mutual benefits to Australia and Vietnam.

 

   

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.

 

   

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:
         
pharmaceutical and health economics
         
energy use and climate change
         
converging technologies
         
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 

 

   

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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