Saule Burkitbayeva is a Research Fellow at the ANU School of Law. She is part of the ARC linkage project on “Embedded emissions accounting: frameworks for trade in a net-zero world” led by Associate Professor Emma Aisbett. Saule’s particular focus lies in exploring possibilities and issues around including agricultural and land-based products into an embedded emissions accounting framework along with manufacturing and extractive products.
Saule has a PhD in Economics from KU Leuven, Belgium, and a Masters and Bachelors degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. While she is interested in all aspects of economic development, the bulk of her applied work and research has focused on trade, value chains, technology adoption, agricultural development, and food security and nutrition in various developing countries. Her regional focus began in the former Soviet Union and Central Asia and gradually moved south to India, Asia Pacific and Australia.
Saule has worked at various international research institutes and as a consultant for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the UNDP. She has done extensive field research, and has experience designing and implementing surveys and analysing micro- and macro-level data. She has published extensively in peer reviewed journals and written several book chapters.
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Refereed journal articles
- Burkitbayeva, S., Janssen, E., & Swinnen, J. (2022). Hiding in plain sight: the emergence of modern dairy farms in India. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, 13(2), 194-210.
- Burkitbayeva, S., Janssen, E., & Swinnen, J. (2020). Technology adoption, vertical coordination in value chains, and FDI in developing countries: Panel evidence from the dairy sector in India (Punjab). Review of Industrial Organization, 57, 433-479.
- Burkitbayeva, S., W. Liefert & J. Swinnen (2020). Agricultural Development and Food Security in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Chapter 7. In K. Otsuka and S. Fan. (eds.), Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World. International Food Policy Institute, Washington.
- Burkitbayeva, S., & Swinnen, J. (2018). Smallholder agriculture in transition economies. Journal of Agrarian Change, 18(4), 882-892.
- Swinnen, J., Burkitbayeva, S., Schierhorn, F., Prishchepov, A. V., & Mueller, D. (2017). Production potential in the “Bread Baskets” of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Global Food Security, 14, 38-53.
Refereed journal articles
- Burkitbayeva, S., W. Liefert & J. Swinnen (2020). Agricultural Development and Food Security in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Chapter 7. In K. Otsuka and S. Fan. (eds.), Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World. International Food Policy Institute, Washington.
- Petrick, M., D. Raitzer & S. Burkitbayeva (2018). Policies to Unlock Kazakhstan’s Agricultural Potential. Chapter 2 In K. Anderson, G. Capannelli, E. Ginting, and K. Taniguchi (eds.), Kazakhstan: Accelerating Economic Diversification. Asian Development Bank, Philippines.
- Burkitbayeva, S. & K. Deconinck (2016). Hot Chocolate in the Cold: The Economics and Politics of Chocolate in the former Soviet Union. Chapter 19. In Swinnen J. and M. Squicciarini. (eds.), The Economics of Chocolate. Oxford University Press.
- Burkitbayeva, S. & W. Kerr (2015). Accession of KRU to the WTO: The Effects of Tariff Reductions on KRU and International Wheat Market. Chapter 18. In Schmitz, A. and W. Meyers (eds.), Transition to Agricultural Market Economies: The Future of Kazakhstan, Russian, and Ukraine. CABI, Oxon, UK.
