Research Groups and Journals

South Asian Studies Group

The Group aims to promote, foster and develop South Asian Studies at the University of Sydney in collaboration with other universities, members of the business community, and the South Asian-Australian communities in New South Wales. The Group encourages interested students, in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Business School in particular, to make a study plan for a balance of South Asian courses and languages together with a discipline e.g., Anthropology, Economics, Government and Public Administration, History, Law, Political Economy, Politics, etc

The Group publishes a journal - International Journal of Development Issues

The Group promotes both academic and applied research on South Asian countries, in the metropolitan area of Sydney, with seminars, library resources and publications. With the help of the business community and other institutions, the Group promotes community awareness of South Asia in Australia.

Director

Dr Dilip Dutta
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Relevant Sites

• National Institute for Asia and the Pacific (ANU)
• Australia South Asia Research Centre
• BBC News: South Asia
• Center for South Asia Studies, University of California
• SAARC
• School of Asian Studies, University of Sydney
• South Asia Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology
• The World Bank Group: South Asia Region
• South Asia Net
• South Asian Media Net

Sydney Macroeconomics Reading Group

The purpose of the group is to meet on a regular basis and discuss major publications or presenter's own work-in-progress in dynamic macroeconomics. The group convenes on Wednesdays, 6-7:30 pm every fortnight at the presenter's university. Please, contact one of the organizers: Stanley Cho (UNSW), Aarti Singh (USyd) or Alexandre Dmitriev (UNSW) if you would like to receive announcements or contribute with a presentation. After the presentation, we usually go for drinks and occasionally dinner. For 2011, University of Sydney has kindly agreed to provide funding for expenses related to social events.

Participants:

• (University of Sydney) Yunjong Eo, Stella Huangfu, David Kim, Denny Lie, Adrian Pagan, Aarti Singh
• (UNSW) Sasan Bakhtiari, April Cai, Mauro Caselli, Arpita Chatterjee, Stanley Cho, Evgenia Dechter, Alexandre Dmitriev, Marian Vidal-Fernandez, Scott French, Geoff Harcourt, Benoit Julien, George Kudrna, James Morley, Glenn Otto, Asgerdur Petursdottir, Alan Rai, Tim Robinson, Akshay Shanker, Nigel Stapledon.
• 
  (Reserve Bank of Australia) Adam Cagliarini, Mariano Kulish, Ivan Roberts
• 
  (Macquarie University) Jeffrey Sheen, Lance Fisher, Natalia Ponomareva

For further information, seminar schedule and papers please visit: Sydney Macroeconomics Reading Group Homepage