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Richard Pomfret
Richard Pomfret has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide since 1992. Before moving to Adelaide, he was Professor of Economics from 1979 to 1991 at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, Bologna and Nanjing. He previously worked at Concordia University in Montréal and the Institut für Weltwirtschaft in Kiel. In 1993 he was seconded to the United Nations, serving as adviser to the governments of newly independent Central Asian countries, and he has also acted as a consultant to the World Bank, UNDP, OECD and Asian Development Bank. He has published over a hundred articles and twenty books, primarily on economic development and international economics. His recent books, include The Age of Equality: The twentieth century in economic perspective (Harvard UP, 2011), Regionalism in East Asia: Why has it flourished since 2000 and how far will it go? (World Scientific, 2011), and, co-authored with Patricia Sourdin, Trade Facilitation: Defining, measuring, explaining and reducing the cost of international trade (Edward Elgar, 2012).