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Professor Prasada
Rao
Tel. (+61 7) 336 56424
p.rao@economics.uq.edu.au
Professor Rao specialises in theory and application
of index numbers with special focus on international
comparisons and productivity measurement. Research interests
include: efficiency and productivity measurement; international
comparisons of prices, output and productivity; purchasing
power parities; inequality and poverty measurement;
and applied econometrics; In addition to his methodological
contributions, he has undertaken several large-scale
empirical studies including a global agricultural comparison
project involving a large number of countries, for the
Statistics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
He has also undertaken a major empirical study measuring
Australia’s Competitiveness as a Tourist Destination.
He is currently very actively involved in the 2003 Round
of the International Comparison Program and the Measurement
of Purchasing Power Parities for Global Poverty Measurement.
He was elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Social
Sciences of Australia in 1997 and he is an elected member
of the International Statistical Institute.
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