Pacific Sustainable Development Policy Analysis
Sustainable Development and Policy Coherence in the Pacific. presentation at the Pacific Policy Dialogue, UNDESA/ESCAP/Samoa/Tonga Governments Organised Dialogue, Apia, Samoa, 11-15 March 2024
Policy Coherence in Tonga and Pacific, presentation at the Tonga Policy Coherence for Implementation of TSDF II, SDGs and 2050 Strategy, Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 30 November 2023
2030 Agenda and the Voluntary National Reviews in the Pacific, presentation at the Pacific 2024 Voluntary National Reviews Clinic, Suva, Fiji, 23 November 2023
A 10-year analysis of the Pacific SIDS Performance, presentation at the Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Pacific region. 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States, Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 16-16 August 2023
Trade Policy and development strategies in the Pacific, presentation at the Implementation of the Tuvalu National Trade Development Strategy, Funafuti, Tuvalu, 10-11 November 2022.
National SDGs and Strategies, presentation in the Tuvalu VNR Workshop 2021, Funafuti, Tuvalu, 28-29 October 2021.
Asia-Pacific Economic and Social Survey
Forward-Looking Macroeconomic Policies for Inclusive and Sustainable Development, Media launch, Kuala Lumpur, April 2013
Pursuing shared prosperity in an era of turbulence and high commodity, Media launch, Manila, Philippines, May 2012
International Trade Analysis
Diversification versus polarization: Role of industrial policy in Asia-Pacific, paper for presentation at the UNESCAP/UNCTAD/WTO ARTNeT Symposium “Towards a return of Industrial policy?”, United Nations, Bangkok, July 2011
Exploring international inequality patterns in technology contents of exports, paper presented 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
Export Structure and Economic Performance in Developing Countries, paper presentation at the Research Workshop on Trade Diversification in the context of Global Challenge, UNESCAP/UNCTAD/WTO, Vientiane, Lao PDR, October, 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.
Emerging South: Drivers of the Global Economic Recovery, presentation at the Project LINK UN DESA Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy, United National Conference Centre, UNESCAP, Bangkok, October 2009l and Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Manila, December 2009
Changing nature of South-South trade and implications on world trade prospects, paper presented 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, paper presented at the international conference XIVth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, organised by Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2009.
India and South-South regional trade agreements, paper presented 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, paper presented at the Project LINK UN DESA Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy, Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2007 and XIIIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Lille, France, April 2008
China and South-South Trade, paper presented 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, paper presented 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, paper presented 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, paper presented 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, paper presented 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.
International Trade Policy
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.
Trade Policies and MDGs, presentation at the first Advanced Trade Policy Course, World Trade Organization, Geneva, November, 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 and Asian Development Bank, Manila, March 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.
Role of Institutional Quality in Determining Foreign Direct Investment: A Fresh Look, paper presented at XIIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Hamburg, Germany, May 26, 2007.
Global Development Policy
Measuring policies, institutions and development in a multispeed world , paper to be presented 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, paper for 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, paper presented at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India, November 2008.
Role of Trade in India’s Progress towards MDGs, paper presented at the International conference How are the Poor Affected by Trade, organised jointly by UNCTAD-DFID-Government of India, New Delhi, India
Comparing China and India: Is dividend of economic reforms polarized?, paper presented 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), paper presented 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, paper presented at XIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Seville, Spain, May 2006.
Quality of Life: Comparing India and China, (with Lawrence R. Klein, and A.L.Nagar), paper presented at 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), paper presented at 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, paper presented at 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, paper presented in 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, paper presented at Swiss Annual Meeting of Economics and Statistics, University of Basel, Switzerland, March 2004.
Measuring Economic Well-being and Governance: Some Methodological Tools, paper presented 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, paper presented at the VIIIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Katholieke University of Leuven, April 2003.
Estimating the Quality of Economic Governance: A Cross-Country Analysis, paper presented at 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), paper presented at 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, paper presented at VIIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Paris, France, April 2002.
Macro-econometric Modeling
Forecasting Trade and Development in Emerging Countries (Chair: Jim O’Neill, Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs), presented to the Goldman Sachs Global Research Team in London and New York, London Office, Goldman Sachs, February 2006.
Forecasting Economic Growth in India (Chair: L.R.Klein), presented 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 by International 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.