B.Com.Hons (Econ), Natal (cum laude);

M.Com.(Economics) Natal

MA (Development Economics), East Anglia (cum laude)

Richard Brown’s areas of specialization include the economics of international migration and migrants’ remittances, applied cost-benefit analysis, and non-market valuation methodologies. He has been awarded a number of research grants including Australian Research Council, World Bank, ILO, WHO, USAID, WWF. He has extensive domestic and international advisory experience and is currently engaged by the Asian Development Bank as an international expert in migration, remittances and poverty for a large study covering four Central Asian and South Caucasus countries. He is a member of the School’s Executive Committee and is a representative on the University’s Academic Board.

Books:

• Remittances in the Pacific: An Overview. Pacific Studies Series, Asian Development Bank, Manila. March 2005. (with J. Connell)
• Benefit-Cost Analysis: Financial and Economic Appraisal using Spreadsheets (with H.F. Campbell), Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Public Debt and Private Wealth. Macmillan International Political Economy Series, Macmillan (UK), September 1992.

Papers:

• “Impacts of International Migration and Remittances on Source Country Household Incomes in Small Island States: Fiji and Tonga”, Discussion Paper 347, School of Economics, UQ, 2007 (with Gareth Leeves).
• “On Labour Market Dualism in the Lewis Model: A Comment” The Manchester School, 74(3): 350-354, 2006.
• “Weak vs. Strong Altruism: A Model of Migrants’ Remittances with Human Capital Investment and Intrafamilial Transfers” International Migration Review, 39(2): 407-38, 2005 (with Bernard Poirine).
• “How Useful Is The Genuine Savings Rate As A Macroeconomic Sustainability Indicator For Countries And Regions?: Australia And Queensland Compared” Australian Economic Review 38(4): 1-19, 2005 (with J. Asafu-Adjaye, M. Draca, A Straton)
• “The Migration of Doctors and Nurses from South Pacific Island Nations” Social Science and Medicine, 58:2193-2210, 2004 (with John Connell,).
• "Comparative Labour Market Performance of Visaed and Non-Visaed Migrants: Pacific Islanders in Australia", Journal of Population Economics, 11(3): 395-411, 1998 
• "Migrants' Intentions to Return Home and Capital Transfers: A Study of Tongans and Western Samoans in Australia", Journal of Development Studies, 35(2): 125-51, 1998. (with Dennis Ahlburg)
• "Estimating Remittance Functions for Pacific island Migrants" World Development, 24(4) 1997: 613-26
• “Migrants' Remittances, Capital Flight, and Macroeconomic Imbalance in Sudan's Hidden Economy”, Journal of African Economies, 1(1): 86-108, 1992.