Development Policy & Practice in Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology

 

Julia Tijaja


Contact Information:
Development Policy and Practice
The Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom


T: +44 (0) 1908 654639
F: +44 (0) 1908 654825
E: j.p.tijaja@open.ac.uk


Title of Research:
Exogenous Factors and Domestic Agency in Value Chain Dynamics: Lessons from the Thai Cassava Value Chains


Supervisors:
Prof. Raphael Kaplinsky
Dr. Giles Mohan

Research Areas and Interests:

  • Global Value Chains
  • Globalisation and distribution
  • The Political Economy of Development
  • Trade and Industrial Policy
  • Asian Drivers: China’s impact on developing countries http://asiandrivers.open.ac.uk/

Publications:

  • Tijaja, J. (2010). The Impact of China on Domestic Value Chains: Lessons from the cassava value chains in Thailand. Paper for the 21st Chinese Economic Association Postgraduate Network-CEA (UK) and the 2nd CEA (Europe) Annual Conference 2010: Oxford

  • Kaplinsky, R., Terheggen, A., Tijaja, J. (2010). What Happens When the Market Shifts to China? The Gabon Timber and Thai Cassava Value Chains. Policy Research Working Paper 5206, the World Bank: Washington DC

  • Tijaja, J. (2010). China’s Impact on Commodity Producing Economies: Lessons from the cassava value chains in Thailand. Paper for the 3rd China Postgraduate Network (CPN) Annual Conference 2010: Oxford

  • Forthcoming Kaplinsky et al. (2010). What Happens When the Market Shifts to China? The Gabon Timber and Thai Cassava Value Chains. in Global Value Chains in a Postcrisis World: A Development Perspective, the World Bank: Washington DC

Conference / Workshop / Seminar Presentations:

  • The Impact of China’s Demand on Domestic Value Chains: the case of Thai cassava A presentation given at ‘China and Low Income Countries: actors, modes of Interaction, and analytical innovations’, the 2nd ESRC Rising Powers Workshop, SOAS, 23 to 24 September 2010, London

  • Paper Presentation at the 21st Chinese Economic Association Postgraduate Network-CEA (UK) and the 2nd CEA (Europe) Annual Conference, University of Oxford, 12 to 13 July 2010, Oxford

  • What Happens When the Market Shifts to China? A presentation given at the ‘Bringing the Stakeholders into Global Value Chains’ Workshop at the launch of the Centre for Research of the Economy and Workplace, Birmingham Business School, 08 July 2010, Birmingham (With Anne Terheggen)

  • What Happens to Global Value Chains When the Market Shifts to China? A presentation given at the ‘Global Value Chains, Development and the Changing Shapes of the World Economy’ Workshop organised by the ETF Research Group, SED, University of Manchester, 27 May 2010, Manchester (With Prof. Raphael Kaplinsky and Anne Terheggen)

  • Paper Presentation at the 3rd China Postgraduate Network (CPN) Annual Conference, University of Oxford, 08 to 09 April 2010, Oxford 

Research Input and Assistance:

  • Kaplinsky, R., Farooki, M. (2009). Africa’s Cooperation with New and Emerging Development Partners: Options for Africa’s Development. UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa

  • Kaplinsky, R., Morris, M. (2009). Chinese FDI in Sub Saharan Africa: Engaging with Large Dragons. European Journal of Development Research, 24(1)

CV/Resume:

2007-2010      
PhD Student, the Open University, Development Policy and Practice, Milton Keynes, UK

2008-2009      
Visiting Scholar, Kasetsart University, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Bangkok, Thailand

2008               
Consultant, UNDP-led Integrated Framework Initiative, Diagnostic Trade Integration Study, Honiara, Solomon Islands

2005-2007      
Trade Policy Analyst (Overseas Development Institute-ODI Fellow), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Honiara, Solomon Islands

2004-2005      
M.Sc. in Economics for Development, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

2001-2004      
B.Sc. in Economics with Politics, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

2003   
Research Intern, Centre of Strategic and International Studies, Department of Economics, Jakarta, Indonesia

2003   
Microeconomics Tutor, Monash College, Jakarta, Indonesia


Languages:
English
Indonesian (Mother Tongue)
Malay
Solomon Islands’ Pidgin
Chinese – Intermediate