Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

For a comprehensive sample of all of outputs, please see my Authory profile, and also my Google Scholar profile.

Johnston, L.A. (2024) The Poor-Old BRICS – Demographic Trends and Policy Cooperation & Consequence, Welternahrung (World Food), (in German & English).

Johnston, L.A. (2023), China’s “Hunan Model” For Realising China-Africa Food Security, Welternahrung (World Food), October (in German & English).

Johnston, L.A. and J. Onjala (2022), “Why an early Belt and Road Initiative East Africa Hub? Economic, Demographic and Security Factors”, Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, Vol. 15(2), pp.125-149.

Johnston, L.A. (2021). “Getting Old Before Getting Rich” and Africa: Of What Relevance is China’s Economic Demography Transition? Journal of African Development, 22(2), 249–278. https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrideve.22.2.0249.

Johnston, L.A. (2021). “Getting Old Before Getting Rich”: Origins and Policy Response in China. China - An International Journal, 19(3), 91-111.

Johnston, L.A. (2021) World Trade, E-Commerce and COVID19: Role and Consequence for China’s electronic World Trade Platform. The China Review, 21(2):65-86.

Johnston, L.A., 2020. Australia in the African Century: A Macro Perspective on the Importance of the African Indian Ocean Rim. Australian Review of African Studies. Forthcoming in December issue.

Johnston, L.A., 2019. The Economic Demography Transition: Is China’s ‘not rich, first old’ circumstance a barrier to growth? Australian Economic Review, 52(4), 406-426.

Mao, H., L. A. Johnston, and Z. Yin, 2019. The Self-Reported Patent Quality of Chinese Firms: Motivation Source and Technology Accumulation Effects Analysis. The Singapore Economic Review, 64(4), 939-960.

Johnston, L.A., 2019. An Economic Demography Explanation for China’s ‘Maritime Silk Road’ Interest in Indian Ocean countries. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 15:1, 97-112.

Yuan, C., C. Li, and L. A. Johnston, 2018. The Intergenerational Education Spillovers of Pension Reform in China. Journal of Population Economics, 31(3): 1-31 (lead paper).

Johnston, L. A., 2018. The Belt and Road Initiative: What is in it for China? Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 6(1), 40-58.

Garnaut, R., L. Johnston and L. Song, 2017. Where is the Chinese Economy Going? A Forum on Contemporary Policy and Performance. Australian Economic Review 50, no. 4:441-449. Cited by Citibank.

Johnston, L.A., 2017. Steel pipe dreams: A China-Guinea and China-Africa lens on prospects for Simandou’s iron ore. The Extractive Industries and Society, 4(2), pp.278-289.

Johnston, L. A., S. L. Morgan and Y. Wang, 2015. The Gravity of China’s African Export Promise, The World Economy, 38, 6, 913–34.

o Early draft presented to Chinese President’s Africa adviser (2013).

Johnston, L. A. & C. Yuan, 2015. China’s Africa Trade and Economic Policies. Journal of African-East Asian Affairs, 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.7552/0-4-145.

Johnston, L. & C. Yuan, 2012. China-Africa Trade Challenges Research - Gravity Model Analysis, Journal of Guangdong University of Business Studies, 5(Oct): 46-52 (published in Chinese).

Johnston, L., 2012. China-Africa Cooperation, Trade and Development: History and Prospects. Journal of Practice in Foreign Relations and Trade, Issue 10 (Oct): 9-13 (published in Chinese).

o Early recent/initial Chinese language reference to the phrase “Maritime Silk Road”.

Working Papers, Occasional Papers & Conference Proceedings

Johnston, L.A., 2020. China’s Economic Demography Transition Strategy. GLO Discussion Paper 593.

Johnston, L.A., 2019. A Timely Economic Demography Lesson from China for the G20. Institute for Global Dialogue Occasional Paper No. 75, South Africa.

Johnston, L.A. and Earley, R. J., 2018. Can Africa Build Greener Infrastructure while Speeding up its Development? Lessons from China. South African Institute of International Affairs Occasional Paper 292 (December):

Johnston, L.A., 2016. China-Africa economic transitions survey: Charting the return of a fleeting old normal. 21st Century Tensions and Transformation in Africa. 38th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (28th-30th October 2015).

Book Chapters & Edited Volumes

Hofman, B., L. Johnston & S. Freije-Rodriguez. 2021. China’s Poverty Reduction and the Role of the World Bank. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences publication to celebrate China’s poverty eradication milestone (forthcoming).

Hofman, B. and L. Johnston. 2021. China’s Poverty Alleviation Experience: Lessons for Africa? Chapter in World Bank publication on Lessons from China for Africa (forthcoming).

Johnston, L. 2020. Understanding demographic challenges of transition through the China lens, in O. Havrylyshyn & E. Douarin, Transition Economies (forthcoming).

Johnston, L. 2018. The Economics of China’s Africa Return, in Binns, J, Lynch, K., and Nel, E. Handbook on African Development. Routledge.

Garnaut, R., L. Song, C. Fang and L. Johnston (editors) 2017. China’s New Sources of Economic Growth Vol. 2: Human Capital, Innovation and Technical Change. ANU Press, Canberra (paperback: Volume 2).

Song, L., Fang, C. and L. Johnston. 2017. China’s Path Toward New Growth: Driver of Human Capital, Innovation and Technological Change. China’s New Sources of Economic Growth Vol. 2: Human Capital, Innovation and Technical Change. ANU Press, Canberra, 1-19.

Johnston, L. and M. Rudyak. 2017. China’s globalisation-shaping "innovative and pragmatic" foreign aid: from shaped by to shaping globalisation, in Garnaut, R., L. Song, Fang, C. and L. Johnston (editors), China’s New Sources of Economic Growth Vol. 2: Human Capital, Innovation and Technical Change. ANU Press, Canberra, 431-455.

Garnaut, R., L. Song, C. Fang. and L. Johnston (editors). 2016. China's New Sources of Economic Growth Vol. 1: Reform, Resources and Climate Change. ANU Press, Canberra. (Paperback: Volume 1) - Cited in The Financial Times and The Nikkei.

Johnston, L., X. Liu, M. Yang and X. Zhang. 2016. Getting Rich After Getting Old: China's Demographic and Economic Transition in dynamic international context, in Garnaut, R., L. Song, F. Cai and L. Johnston (editors), China's New Sources of Economic Growth Vol. 1: Reform, Resources and Climate Change. ANU Press, Canberra, 215-246. (Cited in a Citi Group investor briefing, July 2016).
- Cited in South China Morning Post and Citibank brief; used in German-China youth dialogue; on health economics reading lists in China (PKU) and France (ESSEC).

Garnaut, R., L. Song, C. Fang and L. Johnston (editors) (2015). China's Domestic Transformation in a Global Context. ANU Press, Canberra. ISBN: 9781925022681 (paperback).

Garnaut, R., L. Song, C. Fang and L. Johnston (2015). Domestic Transformation in the Global Context, in R. Garnaut, L. Song, C. Fang and L. Johnston (editors) China's Domestic Transformation in a Global Context, ANU Press, Canberra, 1-17.

Johnston, L. 2015. Boom to cusp: Prospecting the ‘new normal’ in China and Africa, in R. Garnaut, L. Song, C. Fang and L. Johnston (editors) China's Domestic Transformation in a Global Context, ANU Press, Canberra, 383-408.

Wang, Y., Q. Xia, L. Johnston. 2012. China-Africa Trade and Investment Relations: A History and Stylistic Facts, in Xia, Sustaining China’s Outward Investment: Opportunities and Challenges, China Economic Publishing House, Ch. 5, pp. 61-75 (published in Chinese).

Yuan, C. and L. Johnston. 2012. China-Africa Trade Dependencies and Policies: An Economic Geography Perspective, in Xia, Sustaining China’s Outward Investment: Opportunities and Challenges, China Economic Publishing House, Ch. 8, pp. 119-132 (published in Chinese).

Online Podcasts

& Webinars

The Asian Century in 2040. Nikkei Asia webinar (October 2020).

China’s population ageing, Australia-China Relations Institute (March 2018)

What is China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and why is East Africa in Focus? (September 2017)

China in Africa: Who Benefits?, University of Melbourne podcast (April 2017)