Justin Ram
Research student
Justin is an economist with specialisations in natural resource and environmental economics, transport economics, development economics, macroeconomics and labour market economics.
Justin's PhD is on 'Adjusted savings, sustainable development and distribution in a small resource open economy. Who are we saving for?'. His supervisor is Dr Giles Atkinson| at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Justin's research focuses on how savings from natural resource exploitation can have an impact on sustainable development. The World Bank argues that a positive genuine savings rate is important for an economy to be considered sustainable. Justin argues that how those savings are distributed also matters for sustainability, and maldistribution may be contributing to unsustainable outcomes; therefore, intragenerational equity may be just as important as intergenerational equity for sustainable development.
Background
Justin has previously worked as an economist with the UK government's Department for Transport and as a supervisory economist with the Greater London Authority. He has also been a lecturer in economics at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, and a Class Teacher at the LSE, where he taught Applied Environmental Economics. He has also worked as a consultant with the World Bank and on UN and ILO projects.
Justin has recently completed the writing up of his PhD thesis at LSE, with an emphasis on the management of resource revenues in a small open economy (Trinidad and Tobago). He also holds an MSc in Economics from University College London and BSc in Economics from The University of the West Indies. He holds a postgradate certificate in sustainable environmental management from University of California, Berkeley.
Research interests
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Adjusted savings and national accounting;
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Input-output modelling;
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Green jobs;
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Transport economics;
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Utility regulation;
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Active labour market policies;
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Human capital estimation;
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Green jobs employment forecasting;
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London living wage methodology and calculations;
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Energy economics (including economics of oil and natural gas);
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Economic and sustainable development;
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Commodity and savings in Latin America and Caribbean;
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National accounting;
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Natural resource management, watershed management;
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Economic valuation;
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Poverty and labour market policies;
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Macro economics;
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Climate change economics;
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Employment forecasting;
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Distributional analysis and public policy;
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Vulnerability indices;
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Water pricing;
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Forest economics
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