People
Professor Machiko Nissanke is Professor of Economics in the Economics Department at SOAS. Her research interests include finance and development, international economics (trade and finance), macroeconomic adjustments in developing and transitional economies, institutional economics, comparative economic development in Asia and Africa, North-South and South-South economic relations. Teaching interests include open economy macroeconomics, international trade and finance and financial economics. Africa and Asia.
E-mail: mn2@soas.ac.uk
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Hannah Bargawi is a Phd candidate in the Economics department at SOAS and is in her fourth year of full-time study. She is working on completing her thesis on the experience of commodity prices and price instability by Tanzanian cotton and coffee producers since liberalisation. She has been part of a wider Swiss-funded project on primary commodities that has been based at SOAS. Her involvement in ROCFED will continue through her position as research officer at the Centre for Development Policy and Research at SOAS. Her research interests include commodity issues and rural development; the international financial institutions and low income countries; and intra-household research issues. Her regional interests include sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
E-mail: hb19@soas.ac.uk
Hannah Bargawi's web page
Elva Bova is a PhD candidate in the Economics department at SOAS and is in her third year of full time study. Her research is on the macroeconomic management of the copper price cycle in Zambia, with particular reference to exchange rate policy. Her main interests are on monetary and exchange rate policy in mineral-dependent low income countries. She also examines the privatization experience of the mining sector in Chile and Zambia from a comparative perspective. Elva works on a research project on exchange rates funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
E-mail: eb29@soas.ac.uk
Elva Bova's web page
Giovanni Cozzi is a Phd candidate in the Economics department at SOAS and is in his third year of full-time study. He is working on financial system development and exchange rate management in Southeast Asia, with particular reference to Malaysia. His research traces the evolution of Malaysian financial structure from the early 1990s to present days, with particular attention to the micro-macro linkages and the interface with the corporate sector. The main goals of his research are to identify pre-crisis vulnerabilities in Malaysia, assess policy responses to the 1997-98 financial crisis (especially on capital controls and exchange rate policy), and to examine the effects of the current financial crisis and its impact on the Malaysian economy. Giovanni's research is partly funded by a project on exchange rates of the Swiss National Foundation.
E-mail: gc15@soas.ac.uk
Giovanni Cozzi's web page
Annina Kaltenbrunner is a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at SOAS and is in her second year full-time study. Her research is on exchange rate dynamics in emerging markets and its implications for exchange rate management. More specifically, she analyses exchange rate behaviour in Brazil as the outcome of positions taken by heterogeneous financial institutions in the foreign exchange market. She is also interested in the analysis and role of money in different theoretical economic approaches. Annina's research is partly funded by a project on exchange rates of the Swiss National Foundation.
E-mail: ak82@soas.ac.uk
Annina Kaltenbrunner's web page
Jodie Keane is a part-time MPhil student in the Department of Economics, SOAS. She also works as a Research Officer with the International Economic Development Group, ODI. Her research interests include new trade/ new growth theory, international trade and modalities such as global value chains, external governance structures and the role of standards (public and private). Her research entails a comparative analysis of non-traditional exports using Cambodia (garments) and Kenya (horticultural) as case studies.
E-mail: 155969@soas.ac.uk
Susan Newman is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics, SOAS. Her main interests include agro-commodity price behaviour, the political economy of international agricultural markets and the relationship between the financial and the productive sectors in contemporary capitalism. Her PhD research looks at changes in the relationship between derivatives and physical markets for coffee that have taken place since the collapse of the international coffee agreement in 1989 and the liberalisation in origin country marketing systems, in terms of the processes of price realisation, price risk management and implications on the structure of coffee chains.
E-mail: sn23@soas.ac.uk
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Radha Upadhyaya is a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at SOAS. Her thesis attempts to trace the evolution of banking industry in Kenya to understand the sources of shallowness and fragility. It contends that to understand the banking system in Kenya, it is necessary to analyse the relationships between different parties in the banking sector at a micro-level and to place the segmentation of the banking sector at the core of the analysis. This is done to provide a critical analysis of mainstream theory on the role of banks as information gatherers and the corporate governance of banks. It shows how the performance of the banking system and the structure of the system are embedded in social relations and non-price factors.
E-mail: radha@soas.ac.uk
Radha Upadhyaya's web page
