Publications:
Chapters in books:
Policymaking in the age of sustainable development, in Peter Pauly (ed.), Global Economic Modeling: A Volume in Honor of Lawrence R. Klein, chapter 13, pages 289-The World Scientific Book, 2018.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Journal Articles:
Pacific preview: Current trends and trajectories, Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, April 2024
Inclusive Bank-Based Financial Development in Countries with Special Needs: A Semiparametric Analysis (with Monica Das), Economic Analysis and Policy, December 2023
Which way to go now? Financing Economic Growth in the Sustainable Development Era (with Monica Das), Asian Development Review, October 2023
Understanding the relationship between income inequality and pollution: A fresh perspective with cross-country evidence (with Monica Das), World Development Perspectives, Vol 26, June 2022
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
Comparing China and India: Is the dividend of economic reforms polarized?, European Journal of Comparative Economics, 6(1): 57-99; June 2009.
Economic Growth, Well-Being and Governance under Economic Reforms: Evidence from Indian States, Journal of World Economics Review, December 2006.
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.
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.
Working 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.
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.
Exploring International Inequality Patterns in Technology Content of Exports, Policy issues in international trade and commodities, United Nations, New York and Geneva.
Retooling Trade Policy in Developing Countries: Does Technology Intensity of Exports Matter for GDP Per Capita?, Policy issues in international trade and commodities, United Nations, New York and Geneva.
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]
(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.
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. [Under editorial review]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, Raymond Torres/ILO et al.), 2011-2013.
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.
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) National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, August 2000.
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