Bio
Richard Pomfret is Senior Adjunct Professor of International Economics at SAIS Europe
Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide
Serves as a consultant to the UN Development Program, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank; also an associate fellow at the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies at the University of Reading, international research fellow at the Kiel Institute of World Economics and associate fellow at the ROSES-CNRS of Université-Paris I Sorbonne; Jean Monnet Chair on the Economics of European Integration (2018-2020); associate professor and professor of economics at SAIS in Bologna, Washington D.C. and Nanjing (1980-1991). PhD, economics, Simon Fraser University. Pomfret is author of numerous books and articles on international economics, economic development, and other subjects.
Courses
- Economies of Central Asia
Gives an analytical review of the economies of the Central Asian countries. After considering the geographical, cultural and historical basis for identifying a Central Asian region, focuses on the post-independence economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and on the economic influence of the region's major natural resources (cotton, minerals, oil and gas). Examines regional integration and relations to neighboring economies.
- International Economics I
This course provides an introduction to the study of international trade. The first part of the course will focus on theoretical frameworks designed to understand the drivers and implications of international trade and review empirical applications of these models. The second part of the course will cover distributional consequences of trade policy instruments, arguments for trade protection, and the organization of the world trade system. Principles of microeconomics is a prerequisite for this course; more advanced topics in microeconomics will be introduced throughout the course.
