Published Papers
Research Papers
Macro economic modelling, fiscal and monetary policy, and Fiscal Federalism
Governance
Development Processes
Poverty, Agriculture and Agrarian Relations
Regional Development and Micro Level Planning
Environment, Industry and Technology
Macro economic modelling, fiscal and monetary policy, and Fiscal Federalism
- The economic and political geography of development divergene among states-challenges and opportunities, Inaugural Address at National Conferneceon regional developmentsm 22-23 December 2023 at Gokhale Inst. of Politics & Economics Pune.
- Massive capital expenditure, modest fiscal consolidation, and cut in pillars of social safety net (co-author), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LVIII No.12, March 25, 2023.
- The Budget Bets on Capital Expenditure, (coauthor), Econ. & Pol. Weekly, Vol LVII No. 13, March 26, 2022.
- Fiscal Compression, Jeopardized Recovery, the Humanitarian Crisis and Reforms, Econ. & Pol. Weekly, Vol LV no. 21, May22, 2021.
- The NCAER 2020-21 Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy (coauthor), National Council of Applied Economic Research, December 2020.
- The Coronavirus Recession and Its Implications, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, June 2020.
- Fiscal Restraint Trumps Fiscal Stimulus, Econ. & Political. Weekly Vol. LV no. 9, Feb 29, 2020
- Subsidies, Merit Goods and the Fiscal Space for Reviving Growth: An Aspect of Public Expenditure in India, Econ. & Pol. Weekly Vol LV No.5, February 2020.
- The NCAER 2019-20 Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy (coauthor), National Council of Applied Economic Research, November 2019.
- Fiscal Federalism: The Case for a Radical Transformation in Seminar Special Issue on the Union and the States, no 717, May, 2019.
- Inclusive Fiscal Adjustment for Reviving Growth: Assessing the 2019-20 Budget, Econ. & Pol. Weekly Vol. LIV No. 38, Sept 21, 2019.
- Forecasting India’s growth: A Time Varying Parameter Regression Approach (co-author), Economic Developments in India, Volume 260, Academic Foundation, New Delhi 2022.
- Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act in India: A Review and Recommendation for Reforms (Co-author) Asian Development Bank South Asia Working Paper Series no. 53, July 2017.
- Symposium on Universal Basic Income: Overview of Deliberations, Indian Journal of Human Development, vol 11. no 2, August, 2017
- Subsidy Elimination with and without a Global Oil Price Shock: The Macroeconomics of Oil Price Policy Reform in N. Jung (ed. ) The Political Economy of Energy and Growth, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014
- Raising and Managing Resources for a Stronger Bihar, Global Summit on Changing Bihar, Patna, 17-19 February, 2012
- Fiscal Consolidation with High Growth: A Policy Simulation Model for India (co-author), Economic Modelling, Elsevier, 2657-2668, 2011.
- Stimulus, Recovery, and Exit Policy: G 20 Experience & Indian Strategy (co-author), & Political Weekly, XLVI929), July, 2011
- Government Subsidies in K.Basu ( ed. ) The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007
- Fiscal Policy and Growth: Some Asian Lessons for Asia, Journal of Asian Economies Vol. 10 p15-36, 1999
- Tax Reform in Vietnam: A Selective Analysis, Asian Development Bank Occasional Paper, December, 1998
- Adjustment and Distribution The Indian Experience, Asian Development Bank, EDRC Occasional Paper No. 17, 1998
- An Estimate and Analysis of National Government Subsidies in Papua New Guinea, Asian Development Bank, Programs Department East, 1993
- Issues in Fiscal Policy (co-author) in B. Jalan (ed) The Indian Economy: Problems and Prospects, Viking, Penguin Limited, New Delhi, 1992.
- Stabilisation and the Control of Central Government Expenditure (co-author) in Development and Change (ed.) P. Bardhan, M. Dutta Choudhury and T.N. Krishnan, Oxford University Press, Mumbai, 1993
- Volume and Composition of Government Subsidies in India (co-author), Economic & Political Weekly, May 4, 1991
Governance
- The 2024-25 Budget, Employment-intensive Growth and Viksit Bharat (co-author), Economic and Political Weekly, September 28, 2024, Vol. LIX No. 39
- Employment, Education, and the State, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol 60 No.1 pp17-31, 2017
- The Quality of Governance: How Have Indian States Performed? (co-author) Paper presented at the NIPFP – Columbia University Conference, New Delhi, 7 – 8 August, 2012.
- Countervailing Power & Missing Institutions: A Political Economy Perspective on Resource Security, South Asian Survey vol.17, no. 1, Sage, 2010
Development Processes
- The economic and political geography of development divergene among states-challenges and opportunities, Inaugural Address at National Conferneceon regional developmentsm 22-23 December 2023 at Gokhale Inst. of Politics & Economics Pune.
- Education and Health in D. Nayar (ed.) Asian Transformation, WIDER Studies in Economic Development, Oxford University Press, 2018
- Fifty Years of Asian Experience in the Spread of Education and Healthcare, WIDER Working Paper no. 18-97, 2018.
- Beyond Catch Up: Some Speculations About the Next twenty Five, in A. Ghosh Dastidar, A. Malhotra, and V. Suneja (ed.) Economic Theory and Policy amidst Global Discontent. Routledge, Oxford and New York, 2018
- The Rural-Urban Transition in Vietnam: Some Selected Issues, Asian Development Bank EDRC Occasional Paper No. 15, 1997
- Financing Human Development: Some Lessons from Advanced Asian Countries, World Development, Vol. 26.4 p659-672, 1998
- The Normal Pattern of Inter-sectoral Resource Flow: An Application of the Output Composition Function, paper presented to the VIII World Congress of the International Economic Association, New Delhi, December, 1986.
- The Agrarian Barrier to Industrial Growth, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 22 No. 1, 1985.
- Resource Flows from Agriculture and Industrialisation: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and India (co-author) in Ohkawa K. & G. Ranis (ed) Japan and the Developing Countries, 1984, Basil & Blackwell, Oxford, 1984.
- Agricultural Surplus Flow in Japan: 1888-1937 (Co-author), Developing Economies, September 1979.
Poverty, Agriculture and Agrarian Relations
- Towards a Manifesto for Reorganizing Agriculture, Indian J. of Agricultural Economics, Vol.74 No. 1 January- March 2019.
- Millennium Development Goals: How is India Doing? in S. Janakirajan, L. Venkatachalam and R. Maria Saleth (ed.) Indian Economy in Transition, SAGE Publications India, New Delhi, 2015
- Deprivation and Public Policy, Wertheim Lecture, Centre for Asian Studies, Amsterdam, 1994
- India: Employment, Poverty, and Economic Policies, UNDP-ILO, New Delhi, 1993
- Debt Bondage in Colonial Palamau: A Re-examination of the Servitude Hypothesis Paper presented to the IX International Economic History Congress, Berne, August 1986.
- Recent Trends in the Condition of Children in India, World Development, 12 (3), 297-307, March1985
- The Effect of Agricultural Production and Prices on the Incidence of Rural Poverty: A Tentative Analysis of Inter-State Variations Economic & Political Weekly, Review of Agriculture, Vol. XVIII, No. 26 June 25, 1983.
- Land, Labour and the Level of Living in Rural Bihar in A.R. Khan & E. Lee (ed) Poverty in Rural Asia, ILO (ARTEP), Bangkok, June, 1982
- Small Farmers: Problems & Possibility of Development, (co-author) Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1973.
- Income, Savings & Investment Behaviour of Small Farmers, (co-author) Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. XXVII, No. 4, 1972.
Regional Development and Micro Level Planning
- The economic and political geography of development divergene among states-challenges and opportunities, Inaugural Address at National Conferneceon regional developmentsm 22-23 December 2023 at Gokhale Inst. of Politics & Economics Pune.
- Developing Backward Areas: Some Questions Concerning Strategy, Indian Journal of Public Administration, October, 1977.
- 2. Relief Planning: An Aspect of Drought in Maharashtra. Indian Journal of Economics, Vol. V, Part I, No. 216, 1974
Environment, Industry and Technology
- Incentives and regulation for Pollution Abatement with an Application to Waste Wate Treatment. Asian Development Bank EDRC Report No. 63, October 1995
- A Note on the Demand for Commercial Vehicles (co-author), Bureau of Industrial Costs & Prices, New Delhi, December, 1982.
- Technology, Labour Intensity and the Organisation of Industrial Production: A Tentative Comparison of India and Japan, Man & Development, Vol. III, No.1, 1981
- Theoretical Aspects of R & D Evaluation, A.S.C.I. Journal of Management 1972, Vol. 1, No.1, 1972