AUT - Sadhana Srivastava

Dr Sadhana Srivastava

Lecturer in Economics

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 – ext: 5043

Email: sadhana.srivastava@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), National University of Singapore (NUS)
• Master of Philosophy in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
• Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Economics, University of Delhi, India

Biography:

Sadhana Srivastava graduated with Masters and M. Phil in Economics degrees from Delhi, India in 2000, after which she was awarded an NUS Research scholarship to work on her PhD at the National University of Singapore. She earned her PhD degree in 2007, and joined the AUT Business Economics Team in early 2008. Prior to her PhD, she also gained four years of research experience at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in Delhi, India.

Sadhana has worked on the inter-relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade flows in her PhD dissertation, specifically examining the role played by inward foreign direct investment in India’s export performance during the post liberalization period, beginning 1991. She also explored in detail the nuances of FDI data in India and the extent to which it affects international comparisons involving FDI data. Her work in the context of comparing India and China’s FDI valuation system attracted significant international press and media attention and was cited by The Economist magazine in 2003.
Sadhana has also presented her research at various international conferences in the Australasian region, including the Australian conference of Economists 2004 in Sydney, and the New Zealand Association for Economists conference in Auckland in 2003. She has also presented her research at the IMRC2006 conference organized by Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB).
She continues to publish her research findings in international outlets, the latest being a short article on Global Outsourcing of Services, published in the Harvard Asia-Pacific Review. Her first single-authored peer-reviewed journal article appeared in 2006 in the Singapore Economic Review.

Teaching Areas:

Teaching responsibility: Bachelor of Business  
•    Economics of Strategy
•    International Trade Economics
•    Growth and Development in the Asia-Pacific

Research areas:

• International Economics
• Trade-FDI empirical linkages
• Asian Economic Integration

Research Summary:

Sadhana has been analyzing the role of FDI inflows in developing production networks in the Asia-Pacific and on the emerging phenomenon of outsourcing of services to developing countries, viz. India.
She is presently working on analyzing the potential of production fragmentation in India’s manufacturing trade since the economic reforms.  Future research would also include empirical investigation on the importance distance and regional factors using the Gravity model. The effect of outward FDI from developing Asia will be of significant research interest for her.

Current Research Projects:

Sadhana Srivastava, Export-orientation of IT services outsourcing in India
Gulasekaran, Rajaguru and Sadhana Srivastava, The inter-relationship between trade and FDI in developing Asia
Rahul Sen and Sadhana Srivastava. Post FTA implications of Trade Agreements involving New Zealand and Singapore
Sadhana Srivastava and Rahul Sen. Is Production Fragmentation emerging in India’s Manufacturing trade?
Rahul Sen, Sadhana Srivastava and Gail Pacheco, Impact of PTAs on Intra-Asian Trade
Don Webber, Rahul Sen and Sadhana Srivastava. Spatial effects of NZ Trade and FDI
Saten Kumar, Rahul Sen and Sadhana Srivastava. Testing the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle for African Regional Groupings
Gouranga Gopal Das, Rahul Sen and Sadhana Srivastava. Regional Integration Schemes and Scope of Technological and Economic Cooperation for inducing economic growth: A North-South Perspective

Publications:

Srivastava S. and R. Sen (forthcoming), Is Production Fragmentation emerging in India’s Manufacturing trade?, ASCI Journal of Management, (double-blind peer-reviewed journal published from Hyderabad, India)
Pacheco, G, Sen R. and S. Srivastava (2010), Early Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) on intra-regional trade within ASEAN+6 members, paper presented at the 51st NZAE Annual Conference, Auckland, July 2.
Srivastava, S. & Sen, R. (2009). ASEAN and India: Exploring Complementarities. In H.E.S. Nesadurai & S. Djiwandono (Eds.), Southeast Asia in the Global Economy: Securing Competitiveness and Social Protection (pp.21-58). Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS).
Srivastava, S.(2006). The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in India’s Service Exports: An Empirical Investigation. The Singapore Economic Review, 51(2), 175-94.
Srivastava, S. & Rajan, R. (2005). An Overview of the Economics of Outsourcing. ART net Policy Brief No.1, UNESCAP, September.
Srivastava, S. & Sen, R. (2004). Competing for Global FDI: Opportunities and Challenges for the Indian Economy. South Asia Economic Journal, 5(2), 233-60.
Srivastava, S. & Rajan, R. (2004). What Does the Economic Rise of China imply for ASEAN and India: Focus on Trade and Investment Flows. In H. Kehal (Ed.), Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries (pp.171-204). Palgrave-McMillan.
Srivastava, S.(2003). What is the True Level of FDI Flows to India? Economic and Political Weekly, 38(7), 608-10. (Cited in The Economist Magazine, June 21-27, Special Report: India and China, p22).

Awards:

NUS Research Scholarship