Research

Publications

COVID-19 Economic Stimulus and State-level Performance of Power Distribution Companies (with Lekha Chakraborty, Divy Ranjan), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. LVI, Issue No. 43, (2021), pp. 28-36. 23 October.

Working Papers

Ecological Fiscal Transfers and State-level Budgetary Spending: Evidence for The Flypaper Effects in India (with Ranjan Kumar Mohanty, Lekha Chakraborty, Divy Ranjan), NIPFP Working Paper no.332, March 2021. also published as Working Paper no.990, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000.

Covid19 and Public Finance for Children: A case study of State of Odisha, India (with Lekha Chakraborty), NIPFP Working Paper no.368, January 2022.
Analysing Fiscal Federalism in Global South: South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and Nepal (with Lekha Chakraborty, Gurleen Kaur, Divy Rangan, Amandeep Kaur and Jannet Farida Jacob), NIPFP Working Paper no.363, December 2021.
Climate Change-responsive Public Expenditure in India: An Empirical Analysis (with Lekha Chakraborty), NIPFP Working Paper no.298, February 2020.
Nutrition-Public Expenditure Review: Evidence from Gujarat (with Lekha Chakraborty, Ruzel Shrestha, Komal Jain, Jannet Farida Jacob, Anindita Ghosh), NIPFP Working Paper no.286, December 2019.
UDAY Power Debt in Retrospect and Prospects: Analysing the Efficiency Parameters (with Lekha Chakraborty), NIPFP Working Paper no.244, November 2018.
Covid-19 Economic Stimulus and State-level Power Sector Performance: Analyzing the Efficiency Parameters, (with Lekha Chakraborty, Divy Rangan), NIPFP Working Paper No. 333, March 2021.
Analysing Fiscal Federalism in Global South: South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and Nepal (with Lekha Chakraborty, Gurleen Kaur, Divy Rangan and Jannet Farida Jacob), NIPFP Working Paper No. 363, December 2021.
Ecological Fiscal Transfers and State-level Budgetary Spending: Evidence for The Flypaper Effects in India, (with Ranjan Kumar Mohanty, Lekha Chakraborty, Divy Rangan) NIPFP Working Paper No. 332, March 2021

Work-in-Progress

Fiscal Policy and Environmental Kuznets Curve; Evidence from an Emerging Economy, India (with Lekha Chakraborty, Ranjan Kumar Mohanty, Divy Ranjan and Sanjana Das. Presented in the 78th Congress of the IIPF, 10-12 August,2022.

Books/ Monograph

Covid-19 and Economic Stimulus Packages: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific Region (with Lekha Chakraborty, Divy Rangan and Jannet Farida Jacob), NIPFP Publication, April 2021.
Nutrition Public Expenditure Review: Evidence from Gujarat. Jaunary,2020. Amandeep Kaur, Lekha Chakraborty, Ruzel Shrestha, Komal Jain, Janet Farida Jacob, Anindita Ghosh. Published by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi.ISBN-978-81-88035-23-6.
Analysis of State Budgets 2018-19: Key Issues and Challenges. 2020. Lekha Chakraborty, Manish Gupta, Amandeep Kaur. Published by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, (NIPFP), New Delhi, as part of the Gates Foundation project titled Innovations in Public Finance. ISBN-978-81-88035-24-3
Analysis of State Budgets 2017-18: Emerging Issues (Impact of Power Sector Debt - UDAY on State Finances). 2018. Pinaki Chakraborty, Manish Gupta, Lekha Chakraborty and Amandeep Kaur. Published by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, (NIPFP), New Delhi, as part of the IDRC project titled A Study of Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers in India. ISBN-978-81-88035-21-2

Media Listing

The flypaper effect. Lekha Chakraborty, Amandeep Kaur and Divy Rangan. pub. 28/01/2021 Financial Express.
Why is “output gap” controversial. Lekha Chakraborty and Amandeep Kaur. pub. 23/12/2020 Financial Express
Odisha shows the way. Amandeep Kaur and Lekha Chakraborty.pub. 07/08/2019 Financial Express
UDAY isn't working, the old problems persist, Lekha Chakraborty and Amandeep Kaur.pub. 16/11/2018 Financial Express

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