Lauren A Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 4896548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren A Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren A |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3205-8015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The ‘Hunan Model’
China, Africa, and the Market for Donkeys
The BRICS, the dollar and SWIFT
A collective of emerging markets known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, plus five new members as of 2025) is pushing for reform of 20th century global economic currency and international payment norms. Change in the distribution of global economic activity, technological progress, the challenge of updating the system, including institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and recent geoeconomic …
Banking on Beijing
An economic demography explanation for China's ‘Maritime Silk Road’ interest in Indian Ocean countries
For four decades, China has gradually re-shaped the distribution of global economic activity, underpinned by a low-wage demographic dividend era. For around a decade, however, both demographic and economic structural change, at home and abroad, have incrementally shifted China's comparative advantage away from low-wage industrialisation. In response, China now seeks to become an international investor in these industries under the umbrella of the…
The Belt and Road Initiative
China's outbound investment exceeded inbound investment for the first time in 2015. In years leading up this transition, a maturing demographic transition alongside slowing internal migration and diminishing returns to physical capital investment, all had a role in China's diminished competitiveness in low‐wage manufactured exports and the fading of the related growth model. In that context, the 2013 launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) t…
The intergenerational education spillovers of pension reform in China
Steel pipe dreams
The Belt and Road Initiative
China's outbound investment exceeded inbound investment for the first time in 2015. In years leading up this transition, a maturing demographic transition alongside slowing internal migration and diminishing returns to physical capital investment, all had a role in China's diminished competitiveness in low‐wage manufactured exports and the fading of the related growth model. In that context, the 2013 launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) t…
An economic demography explanation for China's ‘Maritime Silk Road’ interest in Indian Ocean countries
For four decades, China has gradually re-shaped the distribution of global economic activity, underpinned by a low-wage demographic dividend era. For around a decade, however, both demographic and economic structural change, at home and abroad, have incrementally shifted China's comparative advantage away from low-wage industrialisation. In response, China now seeks to become an international investor in these industries under the umbrella of the…
The intergenerational education spillovers of pension reform in China
Steel pipe dreams
The Belt and Road Initiative
China's outbound investment exceeded inbound investment for the first time in 2015. In years leading up this transition, a maturing demographic transition alongside slowing internal migration and diminishing returns to physical capital investment, all had a role in China's diminished competitiveness in low‐wage manufactured exports and the fading of the related growth model. In that context, the 2013 launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) t…
The intergenerational education spillovers of pension reform in China
An economic demography explanation for China's ‘Maritime Silk Road’ interest in Indian Ocean countries
For four decades, China has gradually re-shaped the distribution of global economic activity, underpinned by a low-wage demographic dividend era. For around a decade, however, both demographic and economic structural change, at home and abroad, have incrementally shifted China's comparative advantage away from low-wage industrialisation. In response, China now seeks to become an international investor in these industries under the umbrella of the…
Banking on Beijing
The BRICS, the dollar and SWIFT
A collective of emerging markets known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, plus five new members as of 2025) is pushing for reform of 20th century global economic currency and international payment norms. Change in the distribution of global economic activity, technological progress, the challenge of updating the system, including institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and recent geoeconomic …
The ‘Hunan Model’
China, Africa, and the Market for Donkeys
China (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Global trade and economics (3 works)