Peter Warr
After receiving my PhD in 1974 I was Postdoctoral Fellow in International Trade and Economic Development at the University of Minnesota. Following that I taught economics at Monash University from 1976 to 1979. Joined the Economics Department, RSPAS, ANU, in 1980. Holder of the John Crawford Chair since 1989. Current research includes general equilibrium of Indonesian and Thai economies, especially as regards the relationship between economic policy and poverty incidence. Also working on macroeconomic analysis of Thai economy.
Career highlights
Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1997; Editorial Board member for several academic journals. Consultant for the Australian Government, the Thai Government, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the United Nations.
Research Interest
The economies of Thailand and Indonesia, especially as regards measurement of poverty incidence, analysis of its causes and the means by which economic policy may be used to reduce poverty incidence.
Publications
Publications since 2016
Peter Warr and Jayant Menon, ‘Cambodia’s Special Economic Zones’, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, vol. 33, no 3 (December 2016), 273-90.
Peter Warr, ‘Myanmar’s Opening to the World Economy’, in Managing Globalisation in the Asian Century, Hal Hill and Jayant Menon (eds), Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2016, 333-357.
Arief Anshory Yusuf and Peter Warr, ‘Anti-globalisation, Poverty and Inequality in Indonesia’ in Indonesia in the New World: Globalisation, Nationalism and Sovereignty, Arianto A. Patunru, Mari Pangestu, and M. Chatib Basri (eds), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2018, 133-156.
Peter Warr and Archanun Kohpaiboon, ‘Explaining Thailand’s Automotive Manufacturing Success’, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 35 (3), (September 2018), 425 - 448.
Peter Warr, Sitthiroth Rasphone and Jayant Menon, ‘Two Decades of Declining Poverty but Rising Inequality in Laos’, Asian Economic Journal, vol. 32: 2 (June 2018), 165-185.
Peter Warr, ‘Poverty Reduction Experiences of Southeast Asian Countries’. In Y. Zheng and J. Qian (eds), Development and Poverty Reduction: A Global Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge, 177-209.
Peter Warr, ‘Structural Shifters in the Global Demand for Food’, in Hunger and Malnutrition as Major Challenges of the 21st Century, Raghbendra Jha (ed.), World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2019, 77 – 98.
Peter Warr, ‘Economic Development of Post-war Thailand’, in Handbook of Contemporary Thailand, Pavin Chachavalpongpun (ed.) Routledge, London, 2020, 36-51.
Peter Warr and Lwin Lwin Aung, ‘Poverty and Inequality Impact of a Natural Disaster: Myanmar’s 2008 Cyclone Nargis’, World Development, vol. 122, (October 2019), 446-461.
Huy Quynh Nguyen and Peter Warr, ‘Land consolidation as technical change: Economic impacts in rural Vietnam’, World Development, vol. 123, published online December 2019: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X19303997
Peter Warr, ‘Urbanisation and the Demand for Food’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, vol. 56: 1 (April 2020), 43-86.
Peter Warr and Waleerat Suphannachart, ‘Agricultural Productivity Growth and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Thailand’, Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 72: 2 (June 2021), 525 546.
Peter Warr, ‘Poverty and Inequality in Myanmar: 2005 to 2017’, in Chambers, J., Galloway, C., and Liljeblad, J. (eds) Living with Myanmar, ISEAS, Singapore, 2020, 61-91.
Peter Warr and Waleerat Suphannachart, ‘Benign growth: Structural Transformation and Inclusive Growth in Thailand’, in Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kunal Sen, Andy Sumner, and Arief Anshory Yusuf, (eds), The Developer’s Dilemma: Structural Transformation, Inequality Dynamics, and Inclusive Growth, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 88-114.
Lwin Lwin Aung and Peter Warr, ‘Decomposing Changes in Inequality: Evidence from Myanmar’, Review of Development Economics, 2021, 1-25.
Peter Warr, ‘Beyond Krugman: The Importance of Agriculture for East Asian Growth’. In Hal Hill, Majah Leah V. Ravago and James P. Roumasset (eds) Agriculture in Economic Development, ISEAS, Singapore, forthcoming.