QUALIFICATIONS

Sawkut Rojid is an economist and has been involved in a number of national and international projects. His field of specialisation is, but not limited to, international trade and related issues. He has worked in a number of projects in diverse areas. A few of the consultancy projects in which he has been (or still is) heavily involved are as follows:

• Researcher in the Australian government’s funded yearly project – “AusAid/TIPS SADC Trade Review project”;
• Commonwealth Secretariat project in “Developing a Road Map for Exports of Professional services for Mauritius”;
• “Survey of regional commodity associations in the SADC region” for the Southern African Confederation on Agricultural Unions (SACAU);
• “Learning to Innovate: Institutions Supporting Sectoral Innovation Systems in Asia and Africa” – United Nations University-INTECH
• “Women Entrepreneurial Characteristics  in Mauritius” – Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA)

Sawkut is also a regional trainer accredited by IDS, University of Sussex for a training programme on analysing trade data in the EPA context.

He has been published several papers academic journals and some of them are listed below.

• Rojid, S. (2006), “COMESA Trade Potential: A Gravity Approach”, Applied Economic Letters, 2006,13, Pp 947-951.

• Rojid, S. (2007), “A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Duty Free of Mauritius”, The Empirical Economics Letters, Volume 5, Number 4, July 2006, Pp 193-203

• Rojid S. (2006), “Mauritius’ Garment Industry in the New Situation”. Dialogue plus Cooperation Occasional papers, Southeast Asia, Europe, 2/2006 (15). Edited by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES)

• Rojid, S. (2007), “Trade Patterns, Performance and Potentials in COMESA”, The Empirical Economics Letters, forthcoming 2007