About the authors

• Date: 08 July 2010
• Published date: 08 July 2010
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1572-8323(2010)0000014020
• Pages: 283-286

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Aditya Agrawal is a scholarship graduate from Bond University (2006, f‌irst

class honors in Management Science) and the 2007–2008 summer scholar at

the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University.

He commenced work at the University College, Australian Defence Force

Academy in June 2008 and is currently reading for his doctorate in military

outsourcing. Previously he has worked with both the corporate sector and

the government departments. He has published in scholarly journals and

peer-reviewed conferences and was awarded the Best Paper Prize at the

national Australian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2007).

Jurgen Brauer, Ph.D., is professor of Economics, James M. Hull College of

Business, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA, USA, and visiting

professor of Economics at the economics departments of the Universidad

del Rosario, Bogota

´, Colombia, and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,

Thailand. He is co-editor of The Economics of Peace and Security Journal

and the Studies in Defense and Peace Economics book series with Routledge,

London, UK.

Fabrizio Carmignani holds a Ph.D. from Glasgow University and he is

currently senior lecturer at the School of Economics of the University of

Queensland (UQ). Before joining UQ, he worked for the Regional

Economic Commissions of the United Nations in Africa and Europe. His

research interests focus on political economy, economic development,

macroeconomics and applied economics. He has published his work in

journals such as the Journal of Macroeconomics, the European Journal of

Political Economy, the Journal of African Economies, the Scottish Journal of

Political Economy and the Journal of International Money and Finance.

Adrian Gauci joined the United Nations Secretariat through a National

Competitive Examination for economists in 2001. Since then, Adrian Gauci

has been stationed in the Economic Commission for Africa within the Social

Policy and Poverty unit. In this context, he has analysed and monitored

Africa’s progress towards the Internally Agreed Development Goals,

backed by background papers on the determinants of persistent and chronic

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