Presentations
Global Development:
· Growing Together with Growth Polarization and Income Inequality, presentation at the UN DESA Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy (LINK Project), United Nations Headquarters, New York, October 2013.
· Measuring Human Well-being and Health Outcome Goals for the Post-2015 Development Agenda, presentation at the Regional Consultation on Post-2015 Development Agenda WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, Bangkok, 19-21 March 2013.
·Promoting productive capacity development in the Asia-Pacific LDCs, presentation at the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA), Siem Reap, Cambodia, 17-19 December 2012.
· Building on the MDGs in shaping the post-2015 development agenda: Some regional perspectives, presentation at the ESCAP/ADB/UNDP Sub-regional Workshop on Millennium Development Goals and the Post-2015 Development Agenda for South- East Asia Bangkok, 21-23 November 2012.
· Key development issues for the post- 2015 development agenda - Resources for delivery of basic services, presentation at the ESCAP/ADB/UNDP Sub-regional Workshop on Millennium Development Goals and the Post-2015 Development Agenda for South- East Asia Bangkok, 21-23 November 2012.
· Measuring policies, institutions and development in a multispeed world , presentation at the Project LINK UN DESA Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy, New York, USA, October, 2011
· The Rise of India and China, presentation at the Roundtable on the New Geopolitics and Multilateral Diplomacy, Organised by the Graduate Institute and Geneva Centre for Security Policy, May 2010
· Sustainability of the economic growth in China and India, presentation at the Asian Development Bank, Economics Research Department, Manila, December, 2009
· Comparing economic reforms and development outcomes in China and India, presentation at the First International Symposium of Comparative Research on Major Regional Powers in Eurasia,The Elusive Balance: Regional Powers and the Search for Sustainable Development July 2009, Sapporo, Japan.
· Building trade-relating institutions and WTO accession, presentation at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade,New Delhi, India, November 2008.
· Role of Trade in India’s Progress towards MDGs, presentation at the International conference How are the Poor Affected by Trade, organised jointly by UNCTAD-DFID-Government of India, New Delhi, India, October 2008.
· Comparing China and India: Is dividend of economic reforms polarized?, presentation at the 10th bi-annual European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES)conference, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, August 2008.
· Welfare comparison beyond GDP (with S.Fan and X.Zhang), presentation at the International Conference on the Dragon and the Elephant: China and India’s Economic Reforms, China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong, Shanghai, China, June 2006.
· Assessing the WTO accession impact on institution quality, presentation at the XIthSpring Meeting of Young Economists, Seville, Spain, May 2006
· Quality of Life: Comparing India and China, (with Lawrence R. Klein, and A.L.Nagar), presentation at the Project LINK UN DESA Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy, United Nations Office, Geneva, November 2005.
· Spatial Distribution of Welfare across States and Different Socio-Economic Groups in Rural and Urban India(with J.Krishnakumar), presentation at the First meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Palma de Mallorca, July, 2005.
· Correlating Growth with Well-being during Economic Reform: Evidence from India and China, presentation at the IXth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Warsaw, Poland, April 2004
· Growth and Well-being in Chinese provinces in the era of economic reforms: 1978-2001, presentation at the Study Group on China-Related Issues, St.Gallen University, Switzerland, April 2004.
· Economic Growth, Well-Being and Governance under Economic Reforms: Evidence from Indian States, presentation at the Swiss Annual Meeting of Economics and Statistics, University of Basel, Switzerland, March 2004.
· Measuring Economic Well-being and Governance: Some Methodological Tools, presentation at the Computational methods in sciences and engineering international conference,TEI, Kastoria, Greece, September 2003.
· Determinants of Economic Well-being: An Application in the Indian States, presentation at the VIIIthSpring Meeting of Young Economists, Katholieke University of Leuven, April 2003.
· Estimating the Quality of Economic Governance: A Cross-Country Analysis, presentation at the Swiss Society of Economic and Statistics Annual Congress, University of Bern, March 2003.
· Infrastructure Development Index: An Analysis for 17 Major Indian States, 1990-91 to 1996-97 , (with A.L.Nagar), presentation at the Ninth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics on Statistics Combinatorics and Related Areas,Department of Statistics and Department of Mathematics: University of Allahabad, India, December , 2002
· Does Governance Matter? Some evidence from Indian States, presentation at the VIIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Paris, France, April 2002
International Trade:
· Quantifying effects of protectionism measures on trade: An Asia-Pacific story, Expert Meeting on Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) Global Economic Partnership Agreement Research Consortium, United States International Trade Commission, Washington D.C., September 2013.
· India and ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Issues in Trade and Investment, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, September 2013.
· Non-Tariff measures: currently available evidence and future research agenda,UNESCAP//WTO ARTNeT Research Workshop on Emerging Trade Issues in Asia and the Pacific: Meeting contemporary policy challenges, United Nations, Nakorn Pathom, April 2012
· Diversification versus polarization: Role of industrial policy in Asia-Pacific, presentation at the UNESCAP/UNCTAD/WTO ARTNeT Symposium“Towards a return of Industrial policy?”, United Nations, Bangkok, July 2011
· Official non-tariff measures and firm surveys in China and major trading countries, presentation at the International workshop on“Non-Tariff Measures and Chinese Foreign Trade”Organised by UNCTAD-World Bank-University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, March 2011
· Exploring international inequality patterns in technology contents of exports, presentation at the Project LINK UN DESA Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy, New York, USA, October, 2010.--
· XVIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, organised by University of Groningen, Netherlands, April 2011.
· Making Trade work for Development during Crisis, presentation at the XI General Assembly of the World Trade Point Federation , UNOG, Geneva, December, 2010
· Trade Policies and MDGs, presentation at the first Advanced Trade Policy Course, World Trade Organization, Geneva, November, 2010
· Export Structure and Economic Performance in Developing Countries, presentation at the Research Workshop on Trade Diversification in the context of Global Challenge, UNESCAP/UNCTAD/WTO, Vientiane, Lao PDR, October, 2010
· Firm Surveys on non-tariff measures in developing countries during global economic crisis, presentation at the International conference on“Firm Responses to Economic Reforms in China and India, organised by Syracuse University and University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, June 2010
· Non-Tariff Measures and Transparency in Trade: UNCTAD’s Global Initiative, presentation at the ASEAN Officials meeting, Jakarta, Indonesia, 18 March 2010
· Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Manila, March 2010, Asian Development Bank, Manila, March 2010
· Emerging South and global exports: Issues and prospects, presentation at the international conference XVth Spring Meeting of Young Economists,organised by University of Luxembourg and CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg, April, 2010.
· Non-Tariff Measures: New Results from Firm Surveys and Official Sources, presentation at the Research Workshop on Rising Non-Tariff protectionism and Crisis Recovery, UNESCAP, UNCTAD and WTO, Macao, China, December 2009
· Emerging South: Drivers of the Global Economic Recovery, presentation at the Project LINK UN DESA Expert Group Meetingon the World Economy, United National Conference Centre, UNESCAP, Bangkok, October 2009. -- Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Manila, December 2009
· Changing nature of South-South trade and implications on world trade prospects, presentation at the Project LINK UN DESA Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy and St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2009.
· Climbing up the ladder: Transformation in exports structure of South-South trade, presentation at the international conference XIVthSpring Meeting of Young Economists, organised by Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2009.
· India and South-South regional trade agreements, presentation at Lessons learned from South-South trade in Asia and the role of RTAs, United Nations Office, Geneva, April 2008.
· Understanding Africa’s Quest for Diversification, presentation at the Project LINK UN DESA Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy, Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2007--XIIIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Lille, France, April 2008.
· China and South-South Trade, presentation at the Role of China in Global Trade Governance: Developing Countries and Sustainable Development, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, WMO, Geneva, October 2007.
· Emerging seven drives South-South trade, presentation at the Expert Meeting on the Participation of Developing Countries in New Dynamic Sectors of World Trade: The South-South Dimension, United Nations Office, Geneva, October 2007.
· South-South RTA and India’s trade prospects, presentation at the conference organized by Government of India, UNCTAD and FICCI on Going Beyond Doha Negotiations: Promoting South-South Trade, FICCI Auditorium, New Delhi, India, August 2007.
· The E7 in international trade: Dynamism and cooperation, presentation at the Project LINK UN DESA Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, May 2007
· Policy Reforms and Trade Liberalization in Bangladesh, presentation at the UNCTAD-DFID conference on the Adjusting to Trade Reforms: What are the Major Challenges for Developing Countries?United Nations Office, Geneva, January 2005.
Trade and Development Index:
· Presented the UNCTAD report at locations such as UNESCAP (Bangkok), UNECA (Addis Ababa), National Press Club, World Bank, US ITC (Washington, DC), Asian Development Bank (Manila) & Macao (China)
Macro-econometric Modeling:
· Forecasting Trade and Development in Emerging Countries (Chair: Jim O’Neill, Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs), presentation at the Goldman Sachs Global Research Team London Office (VC link with New York), Goldman Sachs, London, February 2006.
· Forecasting Economic Growth in India (Chair: L.R.Klein), presentation at the Global Insight Office, Philadelphia, September 2006.
Creative Economy:
· Creative Industries: A new vehicle for trade and development gains in the CARIFORUM region, presentation at the Regional Training Seminar: Assessing the Economic Contribution and Performance of Creative Industries to National Economies, organised byInternational Trade Centre-European Union-World Intellectual Property Organization,St Lucia, March , 2011
· Global Trends in Creative Industry: Special Reference to Emerging Countries, presentation at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization-Head Quarters at the United Nations Office, Vienna, December 2010
· The Creative Economy Leading Trade and Innovation, presentation at the Applied Policy Seminar, organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Office Geneva, March, 2010.
Investment:
· Something New about FDI? Some Investment Puzzles, presentation at the international conference Is the World Flat or Mountainous? Implications for International Rules on Trade and Investment, organised jointly by NCCR-The Graduate Institute-CTEI(Chair: Richard Baldwin), Geneva, Switzerland, November 28, 2008.
· Role of Institutional Quality in Determining Foreign Direct Investment: A Fresh Look, presentation at XIIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Hamburg, Germany, May 26 2007