Mamta Chowdhury

Bio

Mamta B. Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University, Australia, in Economics, Finance, and Property. She completed her Undergraduate and Master’s in Economics from the University of Manitoba, MEcDev, and PhD from the Australian National University. Before joining Western Sydney University in 1999, Mamta worked as an academic at the University of Wollongong, the Australian National University, the University of Chittagong, the University of Manitoba, and an AusAid Project in Canberra, Australia. She has been researching applied economics and finance, the economics of development, international trade, and macroeconomic policy management, including the effect of workers’ remittances, internationalisation of education, inward and outward foreign direct investment, foreign aid and trade, and Australia’s tourism and education sector. She has done some significant publications in the area of worker remittances and their effects on economic and financial growth and development, growth effect of internationalisation of education, stock markets of developing countries, and the area of economic and institutional determinants of foreign direct investment. Her recent studies focus on the effect of Covid-19 on migrant workers and the inflow of remittances, remittances and educational attainment of female children, institutional quality and remittances flow, and internationalisation of education sector.