SMI Seminar Series
Event Details
- Date:
- Wednesday, 01 April 2015
- Time:
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Room:
- Level 7 Visualisation Lab
- UQ Location:
- Sir James Foots Building (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Miss Hannah Fry
- Phone:
- 64241
- Email:
- h.fry@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Sustainable Minerals Institute
Event Description
- Full Description:
- This week the Sustainable Minerals Institute will host a seminar by Dr David Fleming, research economist at CSIRO titled 'Understanding the resource curse (or blessing) within countries: Theory, empirical challenges and an application'.
This seminar will present the theory and methods that can be used to understand the impact of mining development on the economic growth of regions. It will propose that we separate the impacts of mining from the macroeconomic effects on regions surrounding mining operations. This discussion will be based on the ‘resource curse’ hypotheses and its implications for regional development. A comparison of the usefulness of ex-ante methods such as I-O models, and ex-post specifications, such as econometric growth models, will be discussed. The seminar will conclude with implications and insights for future research. Dr David Fleming collaborates with the ‘Resources in Society’ research group at CSIRO. He obtained his PhD in Applied Economics from the Pennsylvania State University and has lived in Australia since 2012. Dr Fleming has studied a variety of issues relating to economic development, and his research has been published in multiple journals such as the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Nature and Resources Policy. As part of his research in mining, he has studied the local economic effects of unconventional gas development, the job spill-over of mining expansions and the resource curse.
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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