Rukmani Gounder

Rukmani Gounder is a New Zealand economics academic. She is currently a full professor at the Massey University.

Academic career
After a 1994 PhD titled  'An economic analysis of overseas aid motivations : theory and empirical results for Australia'  at the University of Queensland, Gounder moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor.

Selected works

 * Bartleet, Matthew, and Rukmani Gounder. "Energy consumption and economic growth in New Zealand: Results of trivariate and multivariate models." Energy Policy 38, no. 7 (2010): 3508–3517.
 * Gounder, R. (2001). Aid-growth nexus: empirical evidence from Fiji. Applied Economics, 33(8), 1009–1019.
 * Gounder, Rukmani. "Empirical results of aid motivations: Australia's bilateral aid program." World Development 22, no. 1 (1994): 99–113.
 * Saha, Shrabani, Rukmani Gounder, and Jen-Je Su. "The interaction effect of economic freedom and democracy on corruption: A panel cross-country analysis." Economics Letters 105, no. 2 (2009): 173–176.
 * Gounder, Rukmani. "Political and economic freedom, fiscal policy, and growth nexus: some empirical results for Fiji." Contemporary Economic Policy 20, no. 3 (2002): 234–245.