Chris Manning
BA (Oriental Studies), MA, PhD
Honorary Associate Professor
Career highlights
Head of the Indonesian Project, The Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, RSPAS and College of Asia and Pacific (1998-2010).
Research Interest
Labour markets; regional development, poverty and economics development in East Asia with special reference to Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
Publications
- With Sudarno Sumarto, eds.), Employment, Living Standards and Poverty in Contemporary Indonesia, Institue of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2011.
- (With Xin Meng, eds.) The Great Migration: Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia, Edward Elgar, UK, 2010
- Indonesian Labour in Transition: An East Asian Success Story? Trade and Development Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
- (with Prema-chandra Athukorala) Adjusting to Labour Scarcity: Structural Change and International Labour Migration in East Asia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1999.
- (with Ross Garnaut) The Transformation of Melanesian Economy in Irian Jaya, Canberra, ANU Press, 1974 (published in Indonesian with minor revisions, Perubahan Sosial Ekonomi di Irian Jaya, Gramedia, Jakarta, 1979).