Notes

A. MACROECONOMICS & GROWTH

    1. Have Indian Interest Rates Been Too High?, February 2003.
    2. Challenges & Policy Response: Macro Policy Framework for Development, Planning Commission, October 2002.
    3. Tenth Plan Challenges and Policy Response: Macro Framework, Development Policy Division, Planning Commission, April 2002.
    4. From Poverty to Prosperity: Reforms for Accelerating Growth, May 1999.
    5. Policy for Crisis Management, September 1998.
    6. Managing the Exchange Rate: Political Uncertainty, Fundamentals and Expectations, November 1995.
    7. Inflation Performance and Outlook, October 1993.
    8. Macro-Adjustment and Fiscal Deficit: Sustainable Fiscal Deficit, 1993.
    9. Structural Transformation of the economy: Further Policy Measures, May 1992
    10. Macroeconomic Model for Policy Simulation, 1992.
    11. Strategy for Employment Generation and Poverty Removal, Economic Issues Paper No. 4, March 1989, Planning Commission.
    12. Growth, Capital and Employment: Performance in Perspective, Economic Research Paper No. 3, February 1989, Planning Commission.
    13. Efficient Labour Intensive Growth: Key to Accelerated Poverty Reduction, Economic Issues Paper No. 2, April 1988, Planning Commission.
    14. Planning for Faster Growth and Employment Generation: A Suggested Approach, Economic Issues Paper No. 1, March 1988, Planning Commission.
    15. Growth and Income Distribution in The Transitional Economy, 1979.

B. EXTERNAL

    1. Report on Foreign Direct Investment, Planning Commission, July 2002,[i] http://www.planningcommission.nic.in/aboutus/committee/strgrp/stgp_fdi.pdf .
    2. Management of Exchange Rate: Operational Framework, February 1996.
    3. Trade Policy Reform: From Licensing to Tariffs, the unfinished Agenda, December 1992.
    4. Reform of Export and Related Policies, August 1992.
    5. Partial Rupee Convertibility (PCR): A Free Market Exchange Rate Channel, January 1992.
    6. Trade Policy Reform: De-Licensing, Tariff Reform & Exchange Rates, September 1991, Development Policy Research, Planning Commission.
    7. Trends in Current Account Deficit and the Balance of Trade: Separating Facts from Prejudices", Research Paper No. 6, October 1989, Planning Commission.
    8. BOP for the Eighth Plan, 1989, Planning Commission.[ii]

C. FISCAL & BUDGET

    1. Report of The Inter Ministerial Group on Customs Duty Reform Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, November 2001. [iii] Custom Tariff Committee Report, (Virmani committee), annotated version available on Revenue department and ICRIER web site.
    2. Tax Reform Choices: Budget 1997-98, December 1996.
    3. Agenda for Tax Reform: 1996-97, 1996.
    4. Report for the Group on Excise Tax Reform, 1994-95.
    5. Fiscal Effects of Exchange rate Changes, September 1994.
    6. Medium Term Projection of the Central Fiscal Deficit, July 1994.
    7. Report of “Working Group on Review of Customs and Central Excise Duty Structure of (& extension of Modvat to) the Petroleum Sector,” 1993-94.[iv]
    8. Report of “Working Group on Extension of MODVAT to the Textile Sector,” 1993-94.[v]
    9. Reform of Protective Customs Duties: Metals Chain, Capital Goods & its Inputs, Petrochemicals-Fibre chain, 1993-94.
    10. Replacement of Export QRs by Duties, September 1992.
    11. Evolution of the Protective Duty Structure: Directions for Reform, November1992.
    12. Reform of Protective Tariffs: Exemptions and Structure of Tariffs, December 1991.

D. SECTORAL

    1. Terms of Trade Between Agriculture and Industry: Conceptual Problems and Alternatives, Economic Research Paper No. 1, August 1988, Planning Commission.
    2. Diffusion of Innovations: The Role of Endowments, Information, and Technology, [with S. S. Bhalla].[vi]
    3. A Framework for Economic Development in the Nineties: Income Growth, Poverty Reduction and Elimination of Hunger, November 1989 (book manuscript outline).
    4. Declining Employment Growth in Registered Manufacturing, Economic Research Paper No. 7, October 1990, Planning Commission.
    5. Policy Measures for Accelerated Industrial Growth, Economic Issues Paper No. 3, August 1988, Planning Commission.
    6. Oligopolistic Interaction, Threat of Entry and Collusion: An Approach to an Integrated Model of Oligopoly, 1981.
    7. Inter-temporal Substitutability and Non-substitutability of Capital in Production, 1980.
    8. Competitive Access to Telecom: Spectrum Policy and M&As, February 2004. (http://www.icrier.org/avnotes.html).
    9. Sovereign Risk and Optimal Risk Sharing in Natural Resource Contracts, 1984.
    10. The Natural Balance of Power and Global Security, November 1999.[vii]
    11. Natural Balance, Stable Balance: A Model of International Relations, May 1998.[viii]
    12. The Global Balance of Power: The Economics of Power in the 21st Century, September 1997.

[i] Report written as Member-secretary of the FDI Committee

[ii] Report written as Member-secretary of the Working Group.

[iii] Authored as Chairman of the Inter ministerial Expert Group.

[iv] Chairman of the Working Group.

[v] Chairman of the Working Group.

[vi] Submitted to the Journal of Development Economics. Both referees had made positive reports along with suggestions for revisions.

[vii] Outline of talk given at Indo-German Seminar in Delhi.

[viii] Partially complete.