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Dodo Thampapillai is an economist at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He also holds a Personal Chair in Environmental Economics at Macquarie University and an Adjunct Professorship in in the same field at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Uppsala. In 2005, he was included in the list of Eminent Environmental Economists by UNESCAP and was previously a member of the UNEP Expert Group in Environmental Economics. He has over 100 publications including seven books and nine refereed monographs.
He was also awarded the DFG Professorship (University of Kiel, Germany 1999/2000) and SLU visiting Professorship (Sweden- 1999/2000). He has also consulted with World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and International Labour Organization, and the Australian Government. Dodo's current research focus is on Macroeconomics and the Environment and the revised edition of his text Environmental Economics: Concepts Methods and Policies (Oxford University Press 2002, 2006) |
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- “Meeting the Environmental Challenges of China and India: Towards Innovative Policy Formulation”, Journal of Administration and Governance, September 2007
- “The Scarcity of Environmental Capital and Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Australia and the United States”, Singapore Economic Review, August 2007.
- “The Environment and the Economy: Some Questions Regarding the Performance of the Chinese Economy” International Journal of Environment Workplace and Employment, (with Wu Xun and L. Sunderaj) September 2007
- “The Value of Nature in Thailand”, International Journal of Environment Workplace and Employment, (with Quah, E and Thangavelu, S. M.), September 2006.
- “An Extension of a John O’Brien Proposition: Altruism as an Instrument of Public Policy”, International Journal of Social Economics, (with Bo Ohlmer and Lim Boon Tiong), 32 (10), 2005.
- “An Introductory Macroeconomic Framework for China: Implications for West China Development” (with S. Thangavelu and E. Quah), in Ding, L. and Nielson, W. A. (Eds), China’s West Region Development: Domestic Strategies and Global Implications, World Scientific, 2005.
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- “Environmental Capacity Constraints and Economic Growth” – Key Note Paper for Conference on Business, International Competiveness and Sustainable Development, Monash University, Kuala Lumpur, December 2007
- “Economic Growth and the Environment, Invited Paper presented to the Harvard Project in Asia and International Relations, Beijing, August 2007
- “Environmental Protectionism and Resource Management: The Biggest Kids in the Sandbox - China and India”, Paper presented to the Harvard Project in Asia and International Relations, August 2006.
- “The Scarcity of Environmental Capital and Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Australia and the United States”, Panel on Sustainable Development – Myth or Reality, Singapore Economic Review Conference, August 2005.
- “Economic Growth and Environment: A Case Study of Australia”, Eminent Environmental Economists’ Symposium, UNESCAP, Seoul, Korea, March 2005.
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