Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
Current teaching areas
Macroeconomics, Quantitative methods
Research expertise
Economic growth and macroeconomics
The macroeconomics of natural resource abundance
Macroeconomic analysis of aid for health
Development economics
The economics of civil conflict and post-conflict countries
Panel models and systems of equations
Does government spending on education promote economic growth?
Jun 03, 2016 08:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Economic growth is driven by new ideas, by discoveries that result in better products and more efficient production technologies. Human capital is the engine of this process: a better educated labour force increases the...
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