Dr Richard Brown
Honorary Associate Professor & Honorary Associate Professor
Institute for Social Science Research
Biography
Richard Brown holds Honorary Associate Professor positions at ISSR and in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He held positions in the School of Economics at UQ from 1991 to 2020, as well as visiting positions at various universities internationally including Oxford, Cambridge, Vienna and Minnesota.
Richard’s areas of specialization include applied cost-benefit analysis, non-market valuation methodologies, and, international migration with a focus on the impacts on poverty and inequality among migrant-sending countries and communities.
He has designed and delivered numerous professional development courses and workshops in applied cost-benefit analysis for governmental and non-governmental agencies, domestically and internationally. These include courses offered by ISSR as part of its MFSAS program, since 2017, with a special focus on the application of cost-benefit analysis to projects, programs and policies in the social sectors.
He also holds a number of board positions, including membership of the Scientific Advisory Board for ISSR’S research project on The Overarching Evaluation of the National Support for Child and Youth Mental Health Program (CHYME) and the Board of Directors of DFAT’s Australian Pacific Technical Training Coalition (APTC).
He is co-author of an internationally acclaimed textbook: Cost-Benefit Analysis: Financial and Economic Appraisal using Spreadsheets, 2nd Edition, Routledge, 2016 (with UQ Emeritus Professor, Harry Campbell).
For full list of his publications and citations see: http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=1CTqftYAAAAJ&hl=en
Publications
Books
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2015). Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Taylor and Francis.
Ballantyne, Roy, Brown, Richard, Pegg, Shane and Scott, Noel (2008). Valuing Tourism Spend Arising from Visitation to Queensland National Parks. Gold Coast, Australia: Sustainable Tourism CRC.
Connell, J. and Brown, R. P. (2005). Remittances in the Pacific: An Overview. Manila, Philippines: Asian Development Bank.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2003). Benefit-cost analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Book Chapters
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Private cost-benefit analysis: financial appraisal. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 68-98) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Project appraisal: principles. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 19-39) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Case study assignments. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 371-423) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Non-market valuation. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 217-252) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). The distribution of project net benefits. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 149-181) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Project appraisal: decision-rules. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 40-67) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Economic impact analysis. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 334-353) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Cost-benefit analysis and economic efficiency. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 99-148) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Discount and annuity factors. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 424-426) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Appraisal of the distribution of project benefits and costs. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 310-333) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Writing the cost-benefit analysis report. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 354-370) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Uncertainty, information and risk. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 253-291) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Valuing traded and non-traded goods in cost-benefit analysis. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 292-309) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Introduction to cost-benefit analysis. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 1-18) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2016). Consumer and producer surplus in cost-benefit analysis. Cost-benefit analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets. (pp. 182-216) edited by Harry F. Campbell and Richard P. C. Brown. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Brown, Richard P. C. and Connell, John (2015). Migration and remittances: a multidisciplinary synthesis. Migration and remittances. (pp. xiii-lxviii) edited by John Connell and Richard P. C. Brown. London, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
Brown, Richard P. C. and Jimenez-Soto, Eliana (2015). Migration and remittances. Handbook of the Economics of International Migration. (pp. 1077-1140) edited by Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53768-3.00020-5
Brown, Richard P. C. and Jimenez, Eliana (2008). Estimating the net effects of migration and remittances on poverty and inequality: comparison of Fiji and Tonga. Migration and remittances in developing countries. (pp. 86-119) edited by Naveen Kumar and V. V. Ramani. Hyderabad, India: Icfai University Press.
Brown, R. P. and Connell, J. (2006). Migration, remittances and the South Pacific: Towards investment against vulnerability?. Remittances, Microfinance and Development: building the links. (pp. 17-25) edited by J. Shaw. Brisbane, QLD: Foundation for Development Cooperation.
Journal Articles
Brown, Richard P. C. and Carmignani, Fabrizio (2015). Revisiting the effects of remittances on bank credit: a macro perspective. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 62 (5), 454-485. doi: 10.1111/sjpe.12086
Brown, Richard P. C., Carling, Jørgen, Fransen, Sonja and Siegel, Melissa (2014). Measuring remittances through surveys: methodological and conceptual issues for survey designers and data analysts. Demographic Research, 31 (1), 1243-1274. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.41
Brown, Richard P. C., Leeves, Gareth and Prayaga, Prabha (2013). Sharing norm pressures and community remittances: evidence from a natural disaster in the Pacific Islands. Journal of Development Studies, 50 (3), 383-398. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2013.858127
Jimenez, Eliana V. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2013). How responsive are remittances to recipients' welfare? Evidence from Fiji. International Migration, 51 (Supp. S1), e179-e201. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00764.x
Brown, Richard P. C., Carmignani, Fabrizio and Fayad, Ghada (2013). Migrants' remittances and financial development: macro- and micro-level evidence of a perverse relationship. World Economy, 36 (5), 636-660. doi: 10.1111/twec.12016
Brown, Richard P. C., Connell, John and Jimenez-Soto, Eliana V. (2013). Migrants' remittances, poverty and social protection in the South Pacific: Fiji and Tonga. Population Space and Place, Article in press (5), 434-454. doi: 10.1002/psp.1765
Jimenez-Soto, Eliana V. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2012). Assessing the poverty impacts of migrants' remittances using propensity score matching: the case of Tonga. Economic Record, 88 (282), 425-439. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2012.00824.x
Lordan, Grace, Jimenez Soto, Eliana, Brown, Richard P. C. and Correa-Valez, Ignacio (2012). Socioeconomic status and health outcomes in a developing country. Health Economics, 21 (2), 178-186. doi: 10.1002/hec.1703
Brown, Richard P. C. and Leeves, Gareth (2011). Comparative effects of migrants' remittances on composition of recipient household income in two small, island economies. Applied Economics, 43 (27), 3965-3976. doi: 10.1080/00036841003742611
Driml, Sally, Brown, Richard P. C., Ballantyne, Roy, Pegg, Shane and Scott, Noel (2011). A method for estimating the state-wide economic significance of national park tourism: The case of Queensland. Tourism Analysis, 16 (3), 243-257. doi: 10.3727/108354211X13110944386960
Brown, Richard P. C. and Jimenez, Eliana V. (2011). Subjectively-assessed welfare and international remittances: Evidence from Tonga. Journal of Development Studies, 47 (6), 829-845. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2010.501376
Brown, Richard P.C. and Jimenez, Eliana (2008). Estimating the net effects of migration and remittances on poverty and inequality: comparison of Fiji and Tonga. Journal of International Development, 20 (4), 547-571. doi: 10.1002/jid.1474
Brown, RPC (2006). On labour market dualism in the Lewis model: A comment. Manchester School, 74 (3), 350-354. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9957.2006.00497.x
Brown, R. P. and Bulman, T. J. (2006). The evolving roles of the clubs in the management of international debt. International Journal of Social Economics, 33 (1) 11, 11-32. doi: 10.1186/1478-4491-4-11
Brown, R P and Connell, J. (2006). Occupation-specific analysis of migration and remittance behaviour: Pacific Island nurses in Australia and New Zealand. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 47 (1), 135-150. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2006.00299.x
Brown, Richard P. C., Asafu-Adjaye, John, Draca, Mirko and Straton, Anna (2005). How useful is the genuine savings rate as a sustainability indicator for regions within countries? Australia and Queensland compared. The Australian Economic Review, 38 (4), 370-388. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2005.00381.x
Brown, Richard P.C., Asafu-Adjaye, John, Draca, Mirko and Straton, Anna (2005). How useful is the genuine savings rate as a sustainability indicator for regions within countries? Australia and Queensland compared. Australian Economic Review, 38 (4), 370-388. doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.370
Brown, R. P. and Poirine, B. (2005). A model of migrants' remittances with human capital investment and intrafamilial transfers. International Migration Review, 39 (2), 407-438. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2005.tb00272.x
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2005). A multiple account framework for cost-benefit analysis. Evaluation And Program Planning, 28 (1), 23-32. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2004.05.001
Asafu-Adjaye, J., Brown, R. P. and Straton, A. (2005). On measuring wealth: A case study on the state of Queensland. Journal of Environmental Management, 75 (2005), 145-155. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.12.001
Connell, John and Brown, Richard P. C. (2004). The remittances of migrant Tongan and Somoan nurses from Australia. Human Resources for Health, 2 (2) 2, 1-45. doi: 10.1186/1478-4491-2-2
Brown, RPC and Connell, J (2004). The Migration of Doctors and Nurses from South Pacific Island Nations. Social Science & Medicine, 58 (11), 2193-2210. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.08.020
Scott, M., Dimitrakopoulos, R. and Brown, R. P. (2002). Valuing regional geoscientific data acquisition programmes: Addressing issues of quantification, uncertainty and risk. Natural Resources Forum, 26 (1), 55-68. doi: 10.1111/1477-8947.00006
Brown, R. P. and Ahlburg, D. A. (1999). Remittance in the South Pacific. International Journal of Social Economics, 26 (1/2/3), 325-344.
Brown R.P.C. and Ahlburg D.A. (1999). Remittances in the South Pacific. International Journal of Social Economics, 26 (1-3), 325-344. doi: 10.1108/03068299910229721
Brown, Richard P. C. (1998). Comparative labor market performance of visaed and non-visaed migrants: Pacific islanders in Sydney. Journal of Population Economics, 11 (3), 395-411. doi: 10.1007/s001480050076
Brown, RPC (1998). Do migrants' remittances decline over time? Evidence from Tongans and Western Samoans in Australia. Contemporary Pacific, 10 (1), 107-151.
Ahlburg, Dennis A. and Brown, Richard P.C. (1998). Migrants' intentions to return home and capital transfers: A study of Tongans and Samoans in Australia. Journal of Development Studies, 35 (2), 125-151. doi: 10.1080/00220389808422567
Brown, RPC (1997). Estimating remittance functions for Pacific island migrants. World Development, 25 (4), 613-626. doi: 10.1016/S0305-750X(96)00122-2
Brown R.P.C. (1995). Hidden foreign exchange flows: Estimating unofficial remittances to Tonga and Western Samoa. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 4 (1), 35-54. doi: 10.1177/011719689500400102
Walker A. and Brown R.P.C. (1995). From consumption to savings? Interpreting Tongan and Western Samoan sample survey data on remittances. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 4 (1), 89-115. doi: 10.1177/011719689500400105
Brown, Richard P. C., Foster, John and Connell, John (1995). Remittances, savings, and policy formation in Pacific island states. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 4 (1), 169-185. doi: 10.1177/011719689500400109
Connell, John and Brown, Richard P. C. (1995). Migration and remittances in the South Pacific: Towards new Perspectives. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 4 (1), 1-33. doi: 10.1177/011719689500400101
Brown R.P.C. (1992). Migrants' remittances, capital flight, and macroeconomic imbalance in Sudan's hidden economy. Journal of African Economies, 1 (1), 86-108. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jae.a036746
Brown R.P.C. (1992). The IMF and Paris club debt rescheduling: A conflicting role?. Journal of International Development, 4 (3), 291-313. doi: 10.1002/jid.3380040304
Conference Papers
Rambaldi, A. N., Hall, G. and Brown, R P (2006). Re-testing the Resource Curse Hypothesis Using Panel Data and an Improved Measure of Resource Intensity. IAAE 2006Australia 26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Brisbane, Australia, 12-18 August 2006. Australia: IAAE.
Brown, R. P. (2005). Interrelationships between remittances and human capital: lessons from Pacific Island remittance surveys. G-20 Workshop on Demographic Challenges and Migration, Sydney, Australia, 27-28 August 2005. Australia: G-20.
West, G. R. and Brown, R. P. (2000). Structural Change and Intersectional Linkages in the Taiwanese Economy, 1976-1994. 24th ANZRSAI Conference, Hobart, Australia, 3-6 December 2000. Australia: ANZRSAI.
Reference Entry
Research Reports
Sally Driml, Brown, Richard, Sie, Lintje and Tong, Spencer (Yumeng) (2022). Agriculture and Tourism - regional economic contributions and links: A case study of the wine and tourism industries in the Granite Belt region. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Rural Economies Centre of Excellence.
Potia, Azhar Hussain, Brown, Richard and Smith, Simon (2021). BeYou Value for Money (VfM) conceptual framework. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Potia, Azhar Hussain, Brown, Richard and Smith, Simon (2021). Emerging Minds Value for Money (VfM) conceptual framework. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Robinson, Mark, Johnstone, Melissa, Brown, Richard, Kennedy, Elizabeth and Povey, Jenny (2020). Evaluation of the Your Caring Way Program: evaluation framework. Brisbane, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Potia, Azhar Hussain, Brown, Richard and Smith, Simon (2020). Evaluation of the National Support for Child and Youth Mental Health Program: value for money literature review. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Jimenez, Eliana V. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2008). Assessing the poverty impacts of remittances with alternative counterfactual income estimates. School of Economics Discussion Paper No. 375 St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Brown, R. P., Headey, D. D. and Leeves, G. D. (2005). Macroeconomic Volatility in the Pacific: A Cross-Country Comparison of magnitude, sources and consequences, prepared for the Pacific Islands Human Developmentr Review: Poverty and Social Protection, The World Bank, Washington, DC June 2004. Australia: School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
West, Guy R. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2003). Structural Change, Intersectoral Linkages and Hollowing-out in the Taiwanese Economy. School of Economics Discussion Paper St Lucia, QLD Australia: UQ School of Economics.
Brown, R. P., Asafu-Adjaye, J., Draca, M., Hayes, M. and Straton, A. T. (2002). Queensland's Genuine Savings Rate: 1989-2000. St Lucia, QLD Australia: CEPM, University of Queensland.
Working Papers
Brown, Richard P. C., Leeves, Gareth and Prayaga, Prabha (2012). Sharing Norm Pressures and Community Remittances: Evidence from a Natural Disaster in the Pacific Islands. School of Economics Discussion Paper Series. 471. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Brown, Richard P.C. and Carmignani, Fabrizio (2012). Revisiting the effects of remittances on bank credit: a macro perspective. Discussion Paper. No. 461. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Lordan, Grace, Brown, Richard, Jimenez Soto, Eliana and Greene, William H. (2009). Children, inequality and the intra-household allocation of healthcare resources in three transition countries. 401. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Jimenez, Eliana, Correa-Velez, Ignacio and Brown, Richard P. C. (2008). Wealthy and healthy in the South Pacific. Discussion Paper Series. No. 378. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Jimenez, Eliana V. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2008). Remittances and subjective welfare in a mixed-motives model: Evidence from Fiji. Discussion Paper Series. Discussion Paper No. 370. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Brown, Richard P. C. and Jimenez, Eliana V. (2008). A mixed-motives model of private transfers with subjectively-assessed recipient need: Evidence from a poor, transfer-dependent economy. Discussion Paper. Discussion Paper 365. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Jimenez, Eliana V. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2008). Assessing the poverty impacts of remittances with alternative counterfactual income estimates. 375. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Brown, Richard P. C. and Leeves, Gareth (2007). Impacts of International Migration and Remittances on Source Country Household Incomes in Small Island States: Fiji and Tonga. Discussion Paper. ESA Working Paper No. 07-13. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division.
Brown, Richard P.C. and Leeves, Gareth D. (2007). Impacts of International Migration and Remittances. Discussion Paper. No.347. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Department Technical Reports
Brown, R. C. P., Asafu-Adjaye, John, Draca, M. and Straton, A. (2003). How Useful Is The Genuine Savings Rate As A Macroeconomic Sustainability Indicator For Countries And Regions? Australia And Queensland Compared. Discussion Paper No. 331. School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
Campbell, Harry F. and Brown, Richard P. C. (2003). A Multiple Account Framework For Cost-Benefit Analysis. Discussion Paper No. 328. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
West, Guy R. and Brown, Richard P.C. (2003). Structural Change, Intersectoral Linkages And Hollowing-Out in the Taiwanese Economy, 1976-1994. Discussion Paper No 327. School of Economics, University of Queensland.