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Biography
Dr David Vanzetti is an agricultural economist with a varied career having worked with the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics in Canberra, FAO in Rome, the Danish Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Economics (SJFI), several Universities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. He is currently Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of Western Australia. For 12 years he held a similar position at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University in Canberra.
His work has included farm investment analysis, applications of game theory to the international wheat market, trade policy analysis of the Uruguay Round, South African trade sanctions, regional trading arrangements, desert locust control, climate change, trade and environment policies, hides and skins, coffee, bananas, and food security issues. He now specialises in general equilibrium modelling.
Research
Food safety in Vietnam (funding by ACIAR)
Trade wars and implications for developing countries (funded by UNCTAD)
Trade facilitation in East Africa (funded by UK DfID through International Economics Ltd
Australia China agricultural trade
Brexit (funded by UK DIT through International Economics Ltd) |
Rice polices in Thailand |
Vietnam’s textile sector and the TPP (funded by the World Bank, Vietnam) |
Vietnam and the RCEP (funded by (funded by European Commission) |
The EU Vietnam FTA (funded by (funded by European Commission) |
Beyond WTO (funded by DFID and AusAid) |
ASEAN regional rice stocks and price stability • |
Climate change and Indonesian agricultural exports (funded by ACIAR). |
Indonesia and Vietnam’s approach to an FTA with China (funded by ACIAR). |
Vietnam’s free trade agreements (funded by European Commission). |
Migration, GATS and implications for agriculture. |
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s accession to the WTO and the European Union and implications for agriculture |
Climate change policies and developing country agricultural exports, in collaboration with ITC (Geneva) |
The Gulf countries and the WTO |
Preparation of a training manual on commodities |
Agriculture and the Doha Round |
EU and Mercosur regional trade agreement The NAMA negotiations in the Doha Round |
Avian influenza |
Agricultural policies in Turkey |
The coffee crisis |
EU banana policies |
Global cereal stocks and price stability |
Desert locust economic modelling |
Climate change policies |
Trade and environment |
Farm household labour allocation models |
The CAP model of European agriculture |
Optimal control fisheries modelling |
Applications of game theory to international trade |
Optimal trade policies using dynamic programming |
South African sanctions |
NAFTA |
Land value measures |
Taxation, income equalisation deposits |
Farm inputs and farm investment modelling |
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Economics, PhD, Trade Games: Non-cooperative strategies in the international wheat market, La Trobe University
1985 → 1989
Award Date: 30 May 1989
Agricultural economics, MSc, University of Reading
1976 → 1977
Award Date: 30 Sept 1977
Economics, B.Ec(Hons), The University of Western Australia
1972 → 1975
Award Date: 28 Nov 1975
Research expertise keywords
- CGE
- Trade
- Policy
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Policy Analysis of food safety and trade in Vietnam
Petersen, E. (Investigator 01), Vanzetti, D. (Investigator 02), Schilizzi, S. (Investigator 03), Burton, M. (Investigator 04) & Pannell, D. (Investigator 05)
Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
1/07/17 → 30/06/21
Project: Research