Op-Eds and Essays

 

Op-Eds

  1. Response to the Bhagwati-Panagariya rejoinder on MNREGA, Ideas for India, December 14, 2014 (See shorter version in The Times of India).
  2. Wrong Numbers: Attack on NREGA is Misleading, Times of India, November 9, 2014. Click here for a pdf version.
  3. From ‘Mess in India’ to ‘Made in India’ as a global brand?, The Economic Times, October 13, 2014. Click here for the longer Ideas for India version. 
  4. Ceteris Paribus, Interview at The Economie, Netherlands, September 22, 2014. 
  5. India has more than its fair share of super-rich and it isn’t a good thing (with Debraj Ray), The Economic Times, September 4, 2014. Click here for the longer Ideas for India version. 
  6. India needs more than Narendra Modi's trickle-down model, The Guardian, July 14, 2014.
  7. Winnowing fact from rhetoric: A look at what figures tell of UPA's regime (with Parikshit Ghosh & Ashok Kotwal), Economic Times, April 15, 2014.
  8. Growth is Not the Victim of the UPA, it is the Other Way Round, (with Parikshit Ghosh), Hindustan Times, April 3, 2014.
  9. Gujarat Model of Development and Other Growth Stories, (with Sanchari Roy), DNA, March 31, 2014.
  10. Modinomics: do Narendra Modi's economic claims add up? (with Sanchari Roy), The Guardian, March 13, 2014.
  11. Harvard, Hard Work, and Hard Facts, Economic Times, Sunday Magazine, February 23, 2014.
  12. The Land Acquisition Bill is Deeply Flawed (with Parikshit Ghosh), Ideas for India, October 23, 2013.
  13. The Chit fund crisis: Should not put all financial intermediaries in the same bracket, (with Abhijit V. Banerjee), Ideas for India, May 3, 2013
  14. Developing a land acquisition policy for India, (with Dilip Mookherjee), Ideas for India, and MINT, Sep 5 2012 [press coverage in Times of India].  
  15. Land acquisition: Is there a way out? (with Parikshit Ghosh), Ideas for India, July 16, 2012 [interview in Rediff.com and press coverage in Forbes India].
  16. Land on One’s Square Feet, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, September 21, 2011.
  17. What Crisis Has Taught Economics, Financial Express, New Delhi, January 9, 2010.
  18. Buying Land and Selling Kidneys, Financial Express, New Delhi, November 9 & 16, 2009.
  19. No Way Out of this Plot, (with Sanjay Banerji), Financial Express, New Delhi, September 30, 2009.
  20. Small is Smart, Financial Express, New Delhi, August 24, 2009.
  21. Anger in the Wake of Aila (with Sreyashi Dastidar), Financial Express, New Delhi, June 11, 2009.
  22. Poor Man’s Capitalism. Financial Express, New Delhi, March 23, 2009.
  23. Barefoot Entrepreneurs?  Financial Express, New Delhi, January 12, 2009.
  24. Where is Credit Due?  Financial Express, New Delhi, October 27, 2008
  25. In an Imperfect World (with Sugata Marjit), The Telegraph, Calcutta, June 29, 2002.
  26. Bengal’s Economic Survival (with A.V. Banerjee et al), The Telegraph, Calcutta, May 13, 2001. 
  27. Big Boom Theory (with Parikshit Ghosh), The Telegraph, Calcutta, June 4, 1999. 

 

Essays

  1. Two States: A Comparative Analysis of Gujarat and Bihar’s Growth Performance Between 1981-2011 (with Sanchari Roy), Working Paper, December 1, 2014.
  2. Did Gujarat Switch to a Higher Growth Trajectory Relative To India under Modi? A Rejoinder (with Sanchari Roy), Economic and Political Weekly of India, May 3, 2014. Click here for the comment to which this piece responds to.  

  3. Growth in the time of UPA: Myths and Reality (with Parikshit Ghosh & Ashok Kotwal),  Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 19, 2014.

  4. Did Gujarat’s Growth Rate Accelerate under Modi? (with Sanchari Roy), Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 12, 2014. See here the version with the latest year's data.

  5. A Look in the Mirror, (with Sanchari Roy), Outlook, March 31, 2014. Click here for version with tables, and here for the Ideas for India version .

  6. Reforming India's Land Policy (with Parikshit Ghosh and Dilip Mookherjee), Yojana, November 2013.

  7. Land Acquisition and Compensation in Singur: What Really Happened? (with Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Anusha Nath), Economic and Political Weekly of India, Vol - XLVIII, No. 21, May 25, 2013. 

  8. The Land Acquisition Bill: A Critique and a Proposal, (with Parikshit Ghosh), Economic and Political Weekly of India, October 8, 2011, Vol. XLVI, No 41.  (Click here and here for shorter versions, and here for press coverage] 
  9. Implementing Health Insurance: The Rollout of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana in Karnataka, (with Durgam, R., Berg, E., Manjula,R., and Roy, S.),  Economic and Political Weekly of India, May 2011.
  10. Spanning the Chasm: Uniting Theory and Empirics in Microfinance Research, (with Greg Fischer), in B. Armendariz and M. Labie (ed.s), Handbook of Microfinance, World Scientific, 2011.   

  11. Beyond Nandigram: Industrialization in West Bengal (with A.V. Banerjee et al), Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 28, 2007.

  12. Reforming Public Service Delivery, (with Tim Besley), in Journal of African Economics, Vol 16, AERC Supplement 1, p. 127-156, 2007. [See press coverage]   
  13. Land Reform and Agricultural Productivity in India: A Review of the Evidence (with Sanchari Roy), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 23(2): India, Summer 2007.   
  14. Land Reform, entry in The Oxford Companion to Economics in India edited by Kaushik Basu, Oxford University Press, 2007.

  15. Strategy for Economic Reform in West Bengal (with A.V. Banerjee et al), Economic and Political Weekly of India, October 12, 2002.

  16. Recent Reforms in the Panchayat System in West Bengal: Toward Greater Participatory Governance? (with Maitreya Ghatak). Economic and Political Weekly of India, Vol 37, No 1, January 5, 2002. Reprinted in Decentralisation: Institutions and Politics in Rural India (ed.s) Satyajit Singh and Pradeep K. Sharma, Oxford University Press, Delhi. [See press coverage] 

     

 

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