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Qualifications
B Econ,
MA, PhD (Economics)
Biographical note
Professor Bhajan Singh Grewal is an internationally renowned fiscal economist with special interest in fiscal federalism and intergovernmental financial relations. He is currently Adjunct Professor in VISES. He joined Victoria University in 1993 as a Professorial Fellow and the Founding Deputy Director at VISES from 1993-2003. From 2004-2017, he was also Director of the research program Governance and Regional Economies.
From 2014-2019, he was Chief Investigator (with Peter Sheehan) of a project for developing enabling policies for uplifting smallholder livelihoods in Pakistan, funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). The project report Enabling Policies for Developing Smallholder Agriculture in Pakistan was published 2019 and its recommendations have been well received by the national and provincial governments in Pakistan, This report also has wider ramifications for the economic development strategies of other low income countries.
Professor Grewal has published widely on the theory and practice of fiscal federalism in India, Australia, USA and Canada, including ten books and numerous research reports and articles. In 2004,he was appointed Team Leader of a project funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) on advising China’s Ministry of Finance on fiscal management reforms. As part of this project, Professor Grewal also presented seminars and lectures in Beijing, Shanghai, Xian and Wuhan. In 2005, the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) awarded Professor Grewal the JSPS Fellowship to deliver lectures and seminars in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan on fiscal reforms. He has been invited by the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo to speak at international seminars and workshops on public finance and fiscal management.
He was invited to be Guest Editor of the US journal Public Finance and Management and published in2008-2009 an international symposium on the Global Financial Crisis and Public Finances, and another symposium in 2010 on China’s Public Finances.
In 2009-10, he also investigated China’s energy efficiency and the implementation of central Government policies at provincial and county levels and presented lectures and seminars at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fiscal Science Research Institute of Ministry of Finance and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
He has previously taught economics and public finance courses at the Punjabi University, India; the Australian National University; and James Cook University, where he was also Dean of the Faculty. Between 1983 and 1993, he was appointed Director of Revenue Policy and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the Treasury Department of Government of Victoria to advise the State Treasurer on financial relations with the Commonwealth Government.
He is currently co-editing a book titled: Unlocking Private Investment in Sustainable Infrastructure in Asia for the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and working on a Ford Foundation funded project on critical evaluation of China’s models of economic development and development finance. The ADBI has also invited Professor Grewal to address an international forum in Hanoi, Vietnam in November 2020.
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Publications
Books
Grewal, B. and M. Kumnick (eds) 2006,
Engaging the New World: Responses to the Knowledge Economy, Melbourne University
Press, Melbourne.
Grewal, B., Xue, L., Sheehan, P. and Sun, F. (eds)
2002,
China’s Future in the Knowledge Economy: Engaging the New World,
CSES, Victoria University, Melbourne
and Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Matthews, R. and Grewal, B. 1997,
The Public Sector in Jeopardy: Australian Fiscal Federalism from Whitlam to Keating,
CSES, Victoria University, Melbourne.
Sheehan, P., Grewal, B. and Kumnick, M. (eds) 1996,
Dialogues on Australia’s Future: In Honour of the Late Professor Ronald
Henderson, CSES, Victoria University,
Melbourne, 416 pp.
Reports
Khan, M.A., Irshad, A., Chhajro, H., Kalhoro, N.,
Khalid, M.I., Khan, G.A., Rashid, K., Tareen, A.Q., Zafar, A.A., Grewal, B.,
Lang, J. and Sheehan, P. 2019,
Enabling Policies
for Developing Smallholder Agriculture in Pakistan, ACIAR Monograph
No. 207, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra.
Sheehan, P., English, A., Grewal, B., Sweeny, K. and Jolly, R. 2010, More Sustainable Energy Use in China: Economic Structure and the Application of New Technologies, Final Report to Department of Climate Change, CSES, Victoria University, Melbourne.
English, A., Sheehan, P., Grewal, B., Sweeny, K., Nielson, J., Sun, F.
and Cheng, E. 2010,
The Transition to a Low Carbon Economy: Implementation Issues and
Constraints within China’s Changing Economic Structure, Report to
Department of Climate Change (Canberra), CSES, Victoria University,
Melbourne.
Sheehan, P., Grewal, B., Houghton, J., Jolley, A., Cheng, E., Sun, F.,
Nielsen, J., Zhang, B., Lang, J. and Morris, P. 2006,
Building on the Western Australian Boom: The Drivers and Shapers of
China’s Economic Development in the 21st Century, Report to
the Western Australian Technology Industry Advisory Council (TIAC),
CSES, Victoria University, Melbourne.
Sheehan, P., Grewal, B., Shovan, R. Vicziany, M., Grinceri, S. and
Malhotra, P. 2007,
Building on the Western Australian Boom: The Drivers and Shapers of
India’s Economic Development in the 21st Century, Report to
the Western Australian Technology Industry Advisory Council (TIAC),
CSES, Victoria University, Melbourne.
Grewal, B. 2005, ADBI Capacity Building Workshops:
An Evaluation Report, Report to Asian Development Bank Institute,
December, CSES, Victoria University, Melbourne.
Grewal, B. et al. 2005, Strengthening Fiscal
Management and Policy Coordination in China, Final Report of ADB TA
3979: Fiscal Management Reforms in People’s Republic of China, ADB,
Manila.
Grewal, B. et al. 2004, Management of Public
Expenditure: International Experience, Report prepared for the Ministry
of Finance, People’s Republic of China, May, CSES, Victoria University, Melbourne.
Grewal, B., Davenport, P., Puno, F., Sheehan, P. and
Kumnick, M. 1996, Review of Methodology for the Distribution of Funding
under the National Equity Program for Schools, Report of a Review
conducted for the Australian Department of Employment, Education and
Training, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 80 pp.
Book chapters
Malhotra, P. and Grewal, B. 2008,
‘TRIPS-plus: Free trade agreements jeopardising public health in
developing nations’, in Tran Van Hoa and C. Harvie (eds), Regional Trade
Agreements in Asia, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
Grewal, B. 2007, ‘Public finance’, entry in B.
Galligan and M. Roberts (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian Politics,
Oxford University Press, Sydney.
Grewal, B. 2007, ‘Taxation’, entry in B. Galligan
and M. Roberts (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford
University Press, Sydney.
Grewal, B. and Sun, F. 2006, ‘Regional disparities:
A continuing policy phallenge for China’, in B. Grewal and M. Kumnick (eds),
Engaging the New World: Responses to the Knowledge Economy, Melbourne
University Press, Melbourne.
Sheehan, P. and Grewal, B. 2005, ‘International
economics (business, finance and trade): Examples of social
measurement’, in K. Kempf-Leonard (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Social
Measurement, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Grewal, B. and Sun, F. 2002, ‘Foreign markets and
foreign capital: The role of trade in China’s economic transformation’,
in B. Grewal, P. Sheehan, Lan Xue, and F. Sun (eds) China’s Future in
the Knowledge Economy: Engaging the New World, CSES, Victoria University, and Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Grewal, B. and Sun, F. 2002, ‘Extending the frontier
of high growth inland: Implications for China’s regional policy’, in B.
Grewal, P. Sheehan, Lan Xue, and F. Sun (eds) China’s Future in the
Knowledge Economy: Engaging the New World, CSES, Victoria University, and Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Grewal, B. and Mathews, R. 2001, ‘Impact of the High
Court of Australia's decisions on the economy’, in A. Blackshield et al.
(eds.), The Oxford Companion to The High Court of Australia, Oxford
University, Press, Oxford, UK.
Sheehan, P. and Grewal, B. 2000, ‘Firms, regions,
and strategy in a diverging world: The Australian case’, in John. H.
Dunning (ed.), Regions, Globalization and the Knowledge-Based Economy,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2000, pp. 303-327.
Grewal, B. 1998, ‘State taxation and the High Court:
Whither Australian fiscal federalism’, in C. van Wel and J. Quiggin
(eds.), Contemporary Issues in Australian Economics: Essays in Honour of
Professor Percy Harris, Central Queensland University Press,
Rockhampton.
Journal articles
Ghani, J.A., Grewal, B., Ahmed, A.D. and Nor, N.M. 2019, ‘Fiscal decentralisation and economic growth in Malaysia: A Market preserving federalism perspective’, Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, vol. 53, no. 1 (1 Jan 2019).
Ghani, J.A., Grewal, B., Ahmed, A.D. and Nor, N.M. 2017, ‘Efficiency analysis of state governments in the Malaysian fiscal federalism’, International Journal of Economics and Management, vol. 11, pp. 449-466.
Hendriyetty, N. and Grewal, B.S. 2017. ‘Macroeconomics of money laundering: Effects and measurements’, Journal of Financial Crime, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 65-81.
Grewal, B., Cheng, E. and Rasmussen, B. 2015, ‘Local government debt in China: Implications for reform’, Public Finance and Management, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 358-377.
Grewal, B.S. and Ahmed, A.D. 2011, ‘Is China’s Western Regional Development Strategy on track?' Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 20, pp. 161–181.
Grewal, B.S. and Ahmed, A.D. 2010, ‘China’s Western Region Development Strategy: Impact and stocktaking assessment’, International Advances in Economic Research,
vol. 16, no. 2, Research Note.
Grewal, B.S. 2010, ‘Incomplete contracts and the evolution of Canadian
federalism’, Public Finance and Management, vol. 10, no. 1.
Grewal, B.S. 2010, ‘Symposium on fiscal decentralization: Guest Editor’s
Introduction’, Public Finance and Management, vol. 10, no. 1.
Grewal, B. 2009, ‘Introduction: China’s public finances: Expenditures, pensions
and decentralization’, Public Finance and Management, vol. 9.
Grewal, B., Rasmussen, B. and Sheehan, P. 2009, ‘Governments, corporations and
the financial crisis: Is this the end of private banks?’, Harvard International
Review, March.
Grewal, B. 2008, ‘Intergovernmental fiscal transfers for China’s harmonious
society', Public Finance and Management, vol. 8, no. 4.
Sheehan, P. and Grewal, B. 2008, ‘Strategic change and the limits of central
authority in China’, Public Finance and Management, vol. 8, no. 4.
Grewal, B. 2008, ‘Symposium on China’s Public Finances: Part 1: Development
strategy, revenues and fiscal transfers’, Public Finance and Management, vol. 8,
no. 4, pp. 561-567.
Sheehan, P. and Grewal, B. 2004, ‘Understanding the evolution of Constitutional
Federalism: the Case of Australia’, Public Finance and Management, vol. 4, no.
4.
Grewal, B. 2000, ‘Russell Lloyd Mathews: An Appreciation’, The Economic Record,
vol. 76, no. 235, December, 401-411 (with A. D. Barton).
Grewal, B. 2000, ‘Australian Loan Council: Arrangements and Experience with Bailouts’, Inter American Development Bank, Research Network Working Paper R-397
Washington DC, November.
Von Hagen, J., Grewal, B. et al. 2000, ‘Subnational Government Bailouts in OECD Countries: Four Case Studies’, Inter American Development Bank, Research Network
Working Paper R-399, Washington DC, November.
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