Silk Value Chains: CAREC's Role in Enhancing International Value Chains Along the New Silk Road

Richard Pomfret is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Adelaide and Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center.  He has acted as consultant to international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank, the OECD, the UNDP and the World Bank.  In 1993 he was seconded to the United Nations for a year, advising the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union on macroeconomic policy.  

His research interests centre on economic development and international economics.  Recent books include The Age of Equality: The twentieth century in economic perspective (Harvard UP, 2011), The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-first Century: Paving a new silk road (Princeton UP, 2019), China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Eurasian Landbridge, and the New Mega-Regionalism (World Scientific, 2020) and The Economics of European Integration (Harvard UP, 2021).