Now accepting submissions for
Pre-conference Workshops and Mini-symposia

Contributed Poster and Paper submissions open 1 July 2013

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President's Profile

At the Society's Annual General Meeting held during the 57th Annual Conference in Sydney, 5-8 February 2013, Prof. Peter Warr, head Arndt-Corden Department of Economics at the Australian National University, became president of the Society.  Prof. Warr's research interests include studying the economies of East Asia, especially Thailand, Laos and Indonesia, particularly measuring the incidence of poverty, analysing its causes,and examining how economic policy may be used to reduce poverty.  He is also Director of the Poverty Research Centre, and Executive Director of the National Thai Studies Centre at ANU.

As president-elect of the Society, Prof. Warr selected "Economics, Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Asian Century" for the theme of the 2013 Conference.  Professors Ross Garnaut and Bob Gregory thoughtfully addressed this topic in the Opening Plenary Session at the Conference.

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AJARE Editors

  

We are pleased to announce a new team of editors who will be responsible for volumes 58-60 (2014-2016) of the Journal. The team consists of Professors John Rolfe, Central Queensland University, Lin Crase, La Trobe University, and John Tisdell, University of Tasmania. John, Lin and John are all committed AARES members and have a long history of involvement with AARES and the Journal. John Rolfe has been book review editor for five years, and an associate editor for two years. Combined, they have published 201 refereed papers, 6 books and 40 book chapters, as well as more than 200 technical reports and conference papers.                            

Prof. John Rolfe	Prof. Lin Crase	Prof. John Tisdell

The new team are conscious of the history of the Journal and intend to continue to focus on high quality papers in agricultural, resource and environmental economics with an emphasis on Australasian concerns regarding agricultural, resource and environmental management. They will also encourage papers that may appeal to a wider Asia-Pacific audience, with contributions in trade and international and development economics in the region. Papers on transitional and developing economies (eg China, India and South East Asia) will also be welcomed.

We would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the outstanding contribution of the current editors - Allan Rae, Ross Cullen and Geoff Kerr, and their team of associate editors, book review editors and editorial board members, who are in the third and final year of their contract - thank you and well done!!

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