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Education and Employment:
Obtained Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from
The Ohio State University in 1998, after M.S. (Urban and
Regional Planning) from the University of Iowa (1993)
and M.A. (Econ omics) from University of Mysore
(1990).
Initially she was
Research Economist with the National Association of Home
Builders in Washington, DC, after which she spent 4
years on the faculty of Business Environment Group at
the Indian Institute of Management in
Lucknow. She has been a Fellow at NIPFP since September
2003.
C.V
Research
Interests: Urban/regional economic
development policy; Urban Infrastructure; Developmental
issues.
Selected
Published Works
Books and Chapters in Edited Books (2005-07)
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“Cities with Suburbs,” in Land
and Urban Policies for Poverty Reduction, (eds.,
Mila Freire, Ricardo Lima, Dean Cira, Bruce
Ferguson, Christine Kessides, José Aroudo Mota,
Diana Motta), World Bank and IPEA: Brasilia, DF,
forthcoming.
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“Rural Decentralization: Fiscal
Maladies” in India Infrastructure Report 2007:
Rural Infrastructure (ed., 3i Network), New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
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“Cities” in
Oxford Companion to Economics in India
(ed., Kaushik Basu), New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 2007.
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“Institutional Arrangements for
Land Use in Ludhiana, Punjab,” in India
Infrastructure Report 2006: Urban Infrastructure
(ed., 3i Network), New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 2006.
Incentives for Regional
Development: Competition among Sub-National
Governments, Basingstoke, UK:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
“E-Commerce Infrastructure and
Economic Impacts in Developing Countries: Case of
India” (with V.Sridhar), in Electronic Business
in Developing Countries: Opportunities and
Challenges (ed.,S.Kamel), pp.63-87, Hershey, PA:
Idea Group, 2005.
Recent
Journal Publications (2003-07)
Reforming delivery of urban
services in developing countries: Evidence from a
case in India, Economic and Political Weekly,
forthcoming.
“Telecommunications Infrastructure
and Economic Growth: Evidence from Developing
Countries,” (with V.Sridhar), Applied
Econometrics and International Development,
forthcoming.
“Density Gradients and their
Determinants: Evidence from India,” Regional
Science and Urban Economics, 37 (3): 314-344.
“Local Employment Impact of Growth
Centres: Evidence from India,” Urban Studies
43 (12), November 2006: 2205-2235.
“Telecommunications
and Growth: Causal Model, Quantitative and
Qualitative Evidence,” (with V.Sridhar), Economic
and Political Weekly, 41 (25), June 24:
2611-2619.
“Educational Outcomes: DPEP or
Catching up?” (with S.Singh), Economic and
Political Weekly, 40 (35) August 27, 2005:
3863-73.
“The Effect of Telecommuting on
Suburbanization: Empirical Evidence,” (with
V.Sridhar), Journal of Regional Analysis and
Policy 33 (1), 2003: 1-25.
“Firm Location Decisions and Impact
on Local Economies,” Economic and Political
Weekly 38 (39) September 27, 2003: 4121-30.
“The Impact of Local Unemployment
Rates on Reservation Wages and the Duration of
Search for a Job,” (with Don Haurin), Applied
Economics 35 (13) 2003: 1469-76.
“Growth Models and India’s
Policies,” Indian Journal of Public
Administration 49 (2) (April-June 2003):
147-156.
Completed
Research Reports
- Developing Norms for Core Civic Services
and Octroi in the Andaman & Nicobar
Islands, (with O.P.Mathur), Andaman and
Nicobar Administration, September 2004-January
2007.
- Impact of Regulations on Suburbanization:
Evidence from India’s Cities, Institute for
Social and Economic Change for the Sir Ratan Tata
Trust Fellowship, Bangalore, India, October
2006-March 2007.
- Costs of Urban Infrastructure: Evidence
from India’s Cities, (with O.P.Mathur and
A.Nandy), South Asia Network of Economic Research
Institutes, July 2005-July 2006.
- Implications of Suburbanization for Delhi,
Delhi Finance Commission, Third Delhi
Finance Commission Report to the Government of the
National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, October
2005.
- Toward Urban Restructuring: An Assessment
of Reform Potential in Two Mid-Level Indian
Cities, (with O.P.Mathur and
Navroz Dubash), Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
– South Asia, June 2004-August 2005.
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Gender Budgeting and its Impacts on Various
Programs
(with Lekha Chakraborty), Department of
Women and Child Development, Government of India,
May –December 2005.
Current Research Project
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