Professor R.T. Shand is a distinguished academic whose more recent research focuses on agricultural development in South Asia. He was based in the Department of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, from 1961 until 1999. His early interest in agricultural economics in Papua New Guinea, in particular cash crop development, is documented in these papers.
Professor Shand directed a 3-year study of the development of cash-cropping in PNG for the Reserve Bank of Australia, 1963-65. In 1967 68 he was a member of a committee advising on the first Five Year Plan for the economic development of PNG. In 1970 he was a member of a Board of Inquiry into Rural Minimum Wages in PNG. He has also been a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on matters relating to PNG and was a member of its 1975 Mission to PNG.
From the description of Papers and publications on rural developments and labour in Papua New Guinea [microform]. 1947-1992. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224390250
