Research
Academic Publication(s)
1. Kumar, A., & Irfan, Z. B. (2019). Assessment of the Sustainable Livelihood Security of the Ecologically Vulnerable Indian State – Uttarakhand. Asian Journal of Geological Research, 1(3), 1-8.
2. Kumar, A., & Irfan, Z. (2019). Are the New Indian States Ecologically Secured, Economically Efficient and Socially Equitable? (Assessment Using the Sustainable Livelihood Security Index Framework). Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, 2(3), 1-9.
Working Paper
The Determinants of Export Intensity in the Indian Processed Food Sector: A Firm-Level Analysis , co-authored with Prof. Madhuri Saripalle. Presented at 17th Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data Conference, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal (CAED 2021)
Abstract: Many of the world's emerging economies are naturally endowed with agricultural and natural resources which have tremendous scope to exploit their competitive advantage in export markets for these commodities. India being an agrarian economy, has a good production base for the manufacture of food products sector, yet the industry's export performance is lagging. There are no recent studies that analyze the firm-level export intensity and its impact on the food processing industry, a gap this study intends to fill. This study analyses the recent trends and performance of the Indian food processing industry at an aggregate level using the data from Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) and analyses the determinants of export at the firm level using a panel data of 536 firms from 1999-2019 taken from the Prowess database of Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). Tobit model is used in the analysis as the dependent variable; export intensity is a censored variable. Size, profits, import, and wage intensity have been found to have a significant positive impact on export of the Indian food processing sector. In the Indian context, there is not much literature that accounts for self-selection while determining the export intensity at the firm level. This study uses the Heckman selection model to address the issue of self-selection.
Keywords: Export intensity, Food processing, Fish, Meat, Tobit, Heckman Selection
Conferences & Workshops
Presented paper titled “The Determinants of Export Intensity in the Indian Processed Food Sector: A Firm-level Analysis,” co-authored with Prof. Madhuri Saripalle at the 17th Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data Conference, 2021, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Attended a conference on Indian Women and Paid Works: Choices, Opportunities, and Constraints, 2022, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai
Attended the PhD virtual course offered by the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development in collaboration with the International Growth Centre BREAD-IGC, Spring 2022
Presented paper titled “Impact of No Detention Policy on Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India,” co-authored with Prof. Lakshmi Kumar at the 21st Nordic Conference in Development Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2023
Presented paper titled “Impact of No Detention Policy on Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India,” co-authored with Prof. Lakshmi Kumar at the Research Symposium on Finance and Economics 2023 (RSFE), IFMR GSB, Krea University, India, June 2023
Presented paper titled “Impact of No Detention Policy on Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India,” co-authored with Prof. Lakshmi Kumar at the 21st European Economics and Finance Society Annual Conference (EEFS), Berlin, June 2023
Paper titled “Impact of No Detention Policy on Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India,” co-authored with Prof. Lakshmi Kumar has been accepted for presentation at the 71st Congress of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Sciences Po Paris, June 2023
Paper titled “Impact of No Detention Policy on Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India,” co-authored with Prof. Lakshmi Kumar has been accepted for presentation at the 24th Biennial Conference of the Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies (AIEFS), IIT Madras, India, July 2023