SCI Articles

2019: Gender Income Gap in Rural Informal Micro-Enterprises: An Unconditional Quantile Decomposition Approach in the Handloom Industry. Eurasian Business Review, (Springer). Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40821-019-00139-4 (IF: 2.143).

2019: Entrepreneurial motivations of socio-cultural relevance: an exploratory analysis in the handloom industry in Assam. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 25(3), 317-351 (Taylor & Francis). Available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/12259276.2019.1637391 (IF: 0.204). (With K. Goswami & K. Handique)

2016: Adoption of modern weaving machinery in the handloom micro-enterprises in Assam: A Double Hurdle approach. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 102, 344–356 (Elsevier). Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2015.08.009 (IF: 3.129). (With M. P. Bezbaruah & K. Goswami)

2016: Do home-based micro-entrepreneurial earnings empower rural women? Evidence from the handloom sector in Assam. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 22(3), 289–317 (Taylor and Francis). Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/12259276.2016.1205376 (IF: 0.204). (With K. Goswami)

Non-SCI Articles

2020: Employment Generation in Urban India through PMAY(U). Urban India, 39(2), 46-63. (with D. K. Nayak)

2018: Development of women micro-entrepreneurship in the handloom industry: An empirical analysis among tribal communities in Assam. International Journal of Rural Management, 14(1), 22-38 (Sage). Available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0973005218754437 (With K. Goswami)

2017: Determinants of financial risk attitude among the handloom micro-entrepreneurs in north east India. Asia Pacific Management Review, 22(4), 168–175 (Elsevier). doi.org/10.1016/j.apmrv.2017.07.013 Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1029313216304201 (With K. Goswami & K. Handique)

2015: Do different determinants affect differently across gender and location in handloom entrepreneurship development? Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 27(5), 427–449 (Taylor and Francis). Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08276331.2015.1088298 (With A. B. Bortamuly, K. Goswami, & K. Handique)

2013: Determinants of occupational choice of workers in handloom industry in Assam. International Journal of Social Economics, 40(12), 1041–1057 (Emerald). Available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/IJSE-03-2012-0042 (With A. B. Bortamuly, & K. Goswami)

Working Papers

2017: Public procurement in India: Assessment of institutional mechanism, challenges, and reforms. Working Paper No. 204. National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi. Available at http://www.nipfp.org.in/media/medialibrary/2017/07/WP_2017_204.pdf (With P. R. Jena)

2017: Decomposition of gender income gap in rural informal micro-enterprises: An Unconditional Quantile approach in the handloom industry. NIPFP Working Paper No. 216. National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. Available at http://www.nipfp.org.in/media/medialibrary/2017/12/WP_2017_216.pdf

Conference Proceedings

2017: Entrepreneurial Settings for the Development of Handloom Micro-entrepreneurs in North East India. Twelfth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship of EDII, Ahmedabad (India), February 22-24, 2017. Available at http://library.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/5950 (With K. Goswami & K. Handique)

2016: Determinants of financial risk attitude among the handloom micro-entrepreneurs in north east India. Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Entrepreneurship and Business Management (pp. 396-400), Tainan, Taiwan. Available at http://icebm.untar.ac.id/images/proceeding/2016/Proceeding_ICEBM_2016.pdf (With K. Goswami & K. Handique)

2014: Rural non-farm micro-entrepreneurship or not: gender issue in decision making. 6th Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE2014), Cochabamba, August 28-29. Available at http://www.inesad.edu.bo/bcde2014/papers/BCDE2014-59.pdf (With K. Goswami)

Conference/Seminar Presentations

International

2019: Transforming the Lives of Poor towards Sustainable Development: India’s Efforts through Affordable (Adequate) Housing Scheme “PMAY-G”. Accepted for presentation on IZA/DFID Short Course on Program Evaluation, Kathmandu, December 7-8.

2017: Decomposition of gender income gap in rural informal micro-enterprises: An unconditional quantile approach in the handloom industry. IARIW-ICIER Conference on “Experiences and Challenges in Measuring Income, Inequality, and Poverty in South Asia,” New Delhi, India, November 23-25.

2017: Determinants of micro-entrepreneurship as an occupational choice in the handloom industry in Assam. 62nd ICSB World Conference, Buenos Aries, Argentina June 28- July 01, (Accepted/Not Presented).

2017: Does the Influence of Risk Attitude on Entrepreneurial Performance Varies across Location among the Handloom Micro-Entrepreneurs in North East India?' CCSBE Conference, Québec City, Canada, May 11-13.

2017: Does different determinants influence handloom micro entrepreneurial performance differently across gender in North-East India? ASBBS 24th Annual Conference, Las Vegas, USA, March 23-26.

2015: Entrepreneurial motivation of rural women in developing economies: An exploratory analysis in the handloom industry. SEA conference, New Orleans (USA) November 21-23.

2014: Women empowerment in developing economies through participation in home-based activities: A study in the handloom industry. 3rd International Seminar on “Population & Development”, Sherubtse College, Bhutan, October 9-10.

National

2015: What influences adoption and expansion of new technology in rural micro-entrepreneurship? Evidences from handloom industry in Assam. Seminar under DRS-SAP of UGC, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India, March 27-28.

2014: Gender income gap among informal micro-entrepreneurship in developing economies: A decomposition analysis in the handloom industry. 51st Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society (TIES), Punjabi University, Punjab, India, December 12-14.

2013: What influences modern technology adoption in the handloom micro-enterprises? A Tobit approach. Golden Jubilee Conference of the Indian Econometric Society (TIES), Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India, December 22-24.

2013: Development of women micro-entrepreneurship in the handloom industry: an empirical analysis among tribal communities in Assam. National Seminar on “Rural Development in India: Issues, Progress, and Programme Effectiveness” Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, India, April 26-27.

Technical Reports Submitted

2019: Assessing the impact of Various Subsidies Extended by the Coffee Board for Farmers and Exporters. Client: Coffee Board, Government of India, 2019

2019: Assessing the Implementation and Outcomes under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban. Client: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India.

2019: Assessing Employment Generation under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban. Client: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India. Available at

http://mohua.gov.in/upload/uploadfiles/files/NIPFP%20Report%20(V10)-Ebook.pdf

2019: Evaluation of Governance Parameters of Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana- Gramin (PMAY-G). Client: Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.

2018: Impact of Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana –Gramin (PMAY-G) on Income and Employment. Client: Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. Available at https://rural.nic.in/sites/default/files/IMPACT_OF_PMAY-G_ON_INCOME_AND_EMPLOYMENT_REPORT.pdf

2018: Impact of Reforms in Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana - Gramin (A Secondary Data Analysis). Client: Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.

Book Chapters

2019: State finances of Arunachal Pradesh in the post reform period. In Nayak et al. (eds) “Hill Economics and Sustainable Development in India: Emerging Realities (pp. 224-245). New Delhi: Om Publications. ISBN: 9789388937252. (With A. K. Das).

2018: Why women handloom micro entrepreneurs earn less than their male counterpart? A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition approach. In De, U., & Ghosh, B. N. (Eds.), Deprivation, Development and Empowerment of Women in India: North-East Perspectives (pp. 1–38), New Delhi: Bookwell Publication. ISBN: 9789386578280

2014: An insight to the structure of the Indian retail sector. In Gautam, H. C. & Mahapatra, S. K. (Eds.), Foreign Direct Investment in Retail Sector (pp. 18-37). Department of Commerce, Gauhati University (ISBN 9788192949109). (With A. B. Bortamuly)

Books

202: Gender Income Gap in Rural Informal Micro-Enterprises: An Unconditional Quantile Decomposition Approach in the Handloom Industry. Eurasian Business Review, (Springer). Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40821-019-00139-4 (IF: 2.143).

2019: Entrepreneurial motivations of socio-cultural relevance: an exploratory analysis in the handloom industry in Assam. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 25(3), 317-351 (Taylor & Francis). Available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/12259276.2019.1637391 (IF: 0.204). (With K. Goswami & K. Handique)

2016: Adoption of modern weaving machinery in the handloom micro-enterprises in Assam: A Double Hurdle approach. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 102, 344–356 (Elsevier). Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2015.08.009 (IF: 3.129). (With M. P. Bezbaruah & K. Goswami)

2016: Do home-based micro-entrepreneurial earnings empower rural women? Evidence from the handloom sector in Assam. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 22(3), 289–317 (Taylor and Francis). Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/12259276.2016.1205376 (IF: 0.204). (With K. Goswami)