Research Papers

Publications:

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· Euro zone debt crisis: Scenario analysis and implications for developing Asia-Pacific (with Clovis Freire, Pisit Puapan,Vatcharin Sirimaneethama and Yusuke Tateno) Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (January, 2013)

· The creative economy leading trade and innovation, (with Edna Dos-Santos-Duisenberg), Promoting Innovation in Services Sectors , United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, February 2011. [ pdf ]

· UNCTAD initiatives on non-tariff measures: Some results from a pilot project, (with Hiroaki Kuwahara), Rising non-tariff protectionism and crisis recovery , United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, December 2010. [ pdf ]

· Comparing China and India: Is the dividend of economic reforms polarized?, European Journal of Comparative Economics, 6(1): 57-99; June 2009. [ pdf ]

· Economic Growth Story in India: Past, Present and Prospects for Future, in Lawrence R. Klein (ed.) The Making of National Economic Forecasts, Edward Elgar, London, 2009 [ pdf ]

· Economic Growth, Well-Being and Governance under Economic Reforms: Evidence from Indian States, Journal of World Economics Review, December 2006. [ pdf ]

· Infrastructure Development Index: An Analysis for 17 Major Indian States, 1990-91 to 1996-97, (with A.L.Nagar), Journal of Combinatorics, Information and System Sciences, 27(1-4): 185-203, 2002; 2005. [ pdf ]

· Development Strategy and Regional Inequality in India, (with Manmohan Agarwal), in Barua, A. (ed.) India's North East: Developmental Issues in a Historical Perspective, Manohar Publishing Ltd, New Delhi, 2005. [ pdf ]

· Statistical Properties of a Composite Index as Estimate of a Single Latent Variable, (with A.L.Nagar), Journal of Quantitative Economics, Special Issue; 2(2): 19-27; July 2004. [ pdf ]

· Measuring Economic Well-being and Governance: Some Methodological Tools, in Simos, T.E. (ed.) Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2003 (ICCMSE 2003), World Scientific, New Jersey, 2003. [ pdf ]

· Weighting Socio-economic Indicators of Human Development: A Latent Variable Approach, (with A.L.Nagar), in Ullah, A et al (eds) Handbook of Applied Econometrics and Statistical Inference, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2002. [ pdf ]

Research Papers:

· Evolution of non-tariff measures: Emerging cases from selected developing countries (with F. Dumesnil and H. Kuwahara), Policy issues in international trade and commodities, UNCTAD/ITCD/TAB/53, United Nations, New York and Geneva, August 2011. [ pdf ]

· Export Structure and Economic Performance in Developing Countries: Evidence from Nonparametric Methodology (with M. Das), Policy issues in international trade and commodities, UNCTAD/ITCD/TAB/49, United Nations, New York and Geneva, July 2011. [ pdf ]

· Institutional quality and development revisited: A Nonparametric approach, (with M. Das), Policy issues in international trade and commodities, UNCTAD/ITCD/TAB/43, United Nations, New York and Geneva. 2010 [Paper was listed on SSRN's Top 10 download] [ pdf ]

--(earlier version) Institution and Development Revisited: A Nonparametric Approach, (with M.Das) HEI Working Paper Number: 05-2008, International Economics Department, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. April 2008. [ pdf -version 1]

· Building trade-relating institutions and WTO accession, (with V. Ognivstev and M.Shirotori), Policy issues in international trade and commodities, UNCTAD/ITCD/TAB/42, United Nations, New York and Geneva, June 2009.

--(earlier version, sole author) Does WTO accession affect domestic economic policies and institutions?, HEI Working Paper Number: 03-2008, International Economics Department, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. April 2008. [ pdf -version 2] [ pdf -version 1]

· Growth without Welfare Improvement? Evidence from China and India, (with Shenggen Fan and Xiaobo Zhang), UNCTAD-IFPRI Washington, DC, February 2008. [ pdf ]

· Comparing China and India: Is the dividend of economic reforms polarized?, Trade, Poverty and cross-cutting Development Issues, UNCTAD/DITC/TAB/POV/2009/, United Nations, New York and Geneva, March 2009.

--(earlier version) Comparing China and India: Is dividend of economic reforms polarised?, HEI Working Paper Number: 01-2007, International Economics Department, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. January 2007. [ pdf -version 1]

· A new way to link development to institutions, policies and geography, Policy issues in international trade and commodities, UNCTAD/ITCD/TAB/38, United Nations, New York and Geneva, August 2008. [Paper was listed on SSRN's Top 10 download]

--(earlier version) HEI Working Paper Number: 04-2008, International Economics Department, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. April 2008. [ pdf ] [ pdf -version 1]

· Welfare comparison beyond GDP: An illustration from China and India, (with S.Fan and X.Zhang), HEI Working Paper Number: 08-2007, International Economics Department, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. January 2007. [ pdf ]

· Quality of Life: Comparing India and China, (with Lawrence Klein and A.L.Nagar), UN Project LINK Meeting, UNCTAD-UPENN-NIPFP: 2005, UN Geneva. November 2005. [ pdf ]

· Economic Growth, Well-Being and Governance under Economic Reforms: Evidence from Indian States, HEI Working Paper Number: 05-2004, International Economics Department, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. July 2004. [ pdf ]

· Analysis of the Spacial Distribution of Welfare in Rural and Ueban India on the basis of Demand System Estimations using Micro-level Data (with Jaya Krishnakumar), First Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Spain: Econometrics Department working paper: University of Geneva, November 2004. [ pdf ]

· Demand System Estimations and Welfare Comparisons: Application to Indian Household Data (with G.Flores and J.Krishnakumar), Econometrics Department working paper: 2004.13, University of Geneva, May 2004. [ pdf ]

· Spatial Distribution of Welfare across States and Different Socio-Economic Groups in Rural and Urban India (with J.Krishnakumar and G.Flores), Econometrics Department working paper: 2004.14, University of Geneva, May 2004. [ pdf ]

· Estimating the Quality of Governance: A cross-country analysis, Swiss Society of Economics and Statistical Annual Congress, Bern: 2003, International Economics Department, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. April 2003. [ pdf ]

· Does Governance Matter? Some evidence from Indian States, Spring Meeting of Young Economist, Paris: 2002, International Economics Department, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. April 2002. [ pdf ]

· Infrastructure Development Index: An Analysis for 17 Major Indian States, 1990-91 to 1996-97, (with A.L.Nagar), National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, August 2001.

· Weighting Socio-economic Indicators of Human Development: A Latent variable Approach, (with A.L.Nagar), National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, January 2001.

Research Reports:

· Impact of globalization on opportunities for human development, project funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) (with Jaya Krishnakumar et al.), 2012-present [ pdf ]

· Constructing the Indicators for the Right to Development (with late Arjun Sengupta), a background paper of a study for the Nobel Symposium Book Project on 'The Right to Development and Human Rights in Development, January 2007. [ pdf ]

· Demand System Rank and Welfare Analysis (with Jaya Krishnakumar), Scientific Project Report for the Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Geneva, May 2004.

· Application of Econometric Models to Human Development (with A.L.Nagar), Indian Council of Social Science Research & National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, January 2001.

· A Study of Tariffs in Indian Hotels, (with Ashok Lahiri et al.) National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, August 2000.

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