Activities & Programs Of Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)

   • To efficiently perform the said function and to enhance its own research activities IEG has tieups with
      leading academic institutes of national and international level.

   • It also imparts special training programmes to the policy makers in government, civil society and the
     academic community. On regular basis it conducts training programmes for the probationers and in
     service officers of the Indian Economic Service.

   • Besides the above mentioned training schedule for the officers of the Indian Economic Service it also
      has been conducting training programmes for the, Indian Statistical Service, NABARD officers,
      researchers and teachers from Indian universities and from other Asian countries from time to time.

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On Going Research Programs

(I) Macroeconomic Analysis And Policy

• Determinants of Growth and Poverty in India : The Role of Infrastructure
  - Pradeep Agrawal
  Supported by : Swiss Project



• Employment and Wages in India's Manufacturing Sector : Impact of Economic Reforms and Job Security Regulations
  - Pradeep Agrawal
  Supported by : Indo- Shastri Canadian Institute



• Savings and Investment in South Asia
  - Pradeep Agrawal



• Economic Impact of FDI in India
  - Pradeep Agrawal



• Regional Divergence in India and its Decomposition by Sectors : The Eighties Versus the Nineties
  - Sabyasachi Kar
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Rural Urban Disparity and Rural bias against Income Opportunities : A Study of Uttaranchal
  - Sabyasachi Kar
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia
  - Pravakar Sahoo
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Bench Marking Infrastructure Facilities in India and South Asia
  - Pravakar Sahoo
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Optimal Foreign Exchange Reserves In India
  - Pravakar Sahoo
  - Chandan
  Supported by : Individually Initiated

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(II) Globalisation and Trade

• Liberalization and Performance of Firms in Indian Manufacturing Industries During the Post-reform Period.
  - Anita Kumari
  Supported by : SRTT



• FDI, Strategic Alliances, Equity Returns and Foreign Institutional Investments (FII) : An Analysis Inter firm differences
  - N.S. Siddharthan
  - B.L. Pandit
  Supported by : Individually Initiated

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(III) Industry and Development

• Competitiveness of the Indian Industry in the 1990s
  - T.A. Bhavani
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• The State of Competition in Indian Manufacturing Sector
  - T.A. Bhavani
  - N.R. Bhanumurthy
  Supported by : Competition Commission of India



• Structural Changes in the Indian Food Processing Industry
  - T.A. Bhavani
  Supported by : IFPRI, Washington

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(IV) Agriculture and Rural Development

• The Problems and Prospects of Crop Insurance in India
  - Nilabja Ghosh
  - S.S. Yadav
  Supported by : Ministry of Agriculture



• Viable Entrepreneurial Trade for Women in Agriculture
  - Nilabja Ghosh
  Supported by : Ministry of Agriculture



• Problems and Prospects of Crop Diversification in the state of Haryana
  - Brajesh Jha
  Supported by : Ministry of Agriculture



• Public policies and Agriculture : Development : A Case Study of Commercialised Agriculture
  - Brajesh Jha
  Supported by : Individually Initiated (approved by MoA)



• Contract Farming in India : Options and Implications for Small and Large Farmers'
  - Parmod Kumar
  Supported by : Sir Ratan Tata Trust

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(V) Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

• "Environmental Governance and Gender Inequality : The Hidden Side of Community Forestry Groups in India and Nepal"
  - Bina Agarwal
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Methodology for Estimating Economic Value of Forest Land
  - Kanchan Chopra
  - Purnamita Dasgupta
  Supported by : MoE.F.



• Economic Evaluation of Investment Projects in India
  - M.N. Murty
  - B.N. Goldar
  Supported by : Planning Commission



• Preserving Urban Ecosystems : Social Cost Benefit Analysis of Delhi Metro
  - M N Murty
  - Kishore K. Dhavala
  - Meenakshi Ghosh
  - Rashmi Singh
  Supported by : Planning Commission



• A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis
  - M. N. Murty
  - Kanchan Chopra
  Supported by : European Commission



• Environmental Costs of Coal Use in India.
  - Pushpam Kumar
  Supported by : WWF



• National Capacity Self Assessment (NCSA) in Land Degradation
  - Pushpam Kumar
  Supported by : MoEF-UNDP



• Payment for Ecosystem Services in Indian Kush Himalayan Regions : Exploration of Institutional Requirements
  - Pushpam Kumar
  Supported by : Individually Initiated

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(VI) Population and Human Resource Development

• Ageing, Socio-Economic Disparities and Health Outcomes : Some Evidence from Rural India
  - Moneer Alam
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Are Women More Prone to Functional Disabilities? An Evaluation Using Barthel Index
  - Moneer Alam
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Implcatioins of Imbalance in Sex Ratio : A Study of Two Hill States of India
  - R. S. Bora
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Birth Rate Trends in India
  - Alok Ranjan Chaurasia
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Birth Registration in Madhya Pradesh, India
  - Alok Ranjan Chaurasia
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Demographic Consequences of Socio-economic Development in India
  - Alok Ranjan Chaurasia
  - S.C.Gulati
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Population, Economic Growth and Human Development in Madhya Pradesh
  - Alok Ranjan Chaurasia
  - S.C.Gulati
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• "Reproductive and Child Health in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal; DLHS-RCH Project, Round II-Phase-II"
  - S.C.Gulati
  - P.N. Mari Bhat
  - Suresh Sharma
  Supported by : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)



• "Evaluation of Functioning of UHP and UFWC in Delhi "
  - S.C.Gulati
  - Suresh Sharma
  Supported by : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)



• Assessment of Incidence of RTIs/STIs in Uttaranchal
  - S.C.Gulati
  - Suresh Sharma
  Supported by : National Commission on Populatlion, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)



• National Family Health Survey - 3
  - S.C.Gulati
  - R.P.Tyagi
  - Suresh Sharma
  Supported by : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)



• Interlinkages Amongst District Level Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors
  - S.C.Gulati
  - Alok Ranjan Chaurasia
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Physical and Monetary Accounts of Natural Resources : The Case of Air and Water for Andhra and Himachal Pradesh"
  - M.N. Murty
  - S.C. Gulati
  Supported by : Central Statistical Organization



• Urbanisation in the 1990s
  - R.P. Tyagi
  Supported by : Individually Initiated

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(VII) Social Change and Social Structure

• Bourgeois Environmentalism and the Making of Modern Delhi : Urban Spaces and Livelihoods
  - Amita Baviskar
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• The Middle Classes in India : Identity, Citizenship and the Public Sphere
  - Amita Baviskar
  - Raka Ray
  Supported by : Non-government



• Informal Economies and Cultural Patronage : Studying Bollywood
  - Veena Naregal
  Supported by : Non-government



• "Politics of Popular Culture : Patronage, Peformative Forms and Vernacular Culture in Western India"
  - Veena Naregal
  Supported by : Non-government



• Framing Comparative Agendas within Globalisation : The Public Domain, Cinema and Popular Culture in India and China
  -Veena Naregal
  Supported by : ICSSR-supported



• Caste and the Literary Sphere : Post-Independence Literary Histories
  - Veena Naregal
  - Crispin Bates, Edinburgh
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• 'Aspirational Weddings : The Bridal Magazine and the Canons of 'Decent Marriage'- Patricia Uberoi
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Marriage and Migration in Asia : Gender Issues
  - Patricia Uberoi
  - Rajni Palriwala
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• The Professionalization of Indian Anthropology and Sociology : People, Places and Institutions
  - Patricia Uberoi
  - Satish Deshpande
  - Nandini Sundar
  Supported by : Individually Initiated



• Chicks, Kids and Couples : Transnational Longings for Modernity
  - Patricia Uberoi
  Supported by : Individually Initiated

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(VIII) Health Economics and Policy

• Costing of Free ART Programme of the Government of India - Phase II
  - Indrani Gupta
  Supported by : World Bank



• Examining Adherence among Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in India (with Sarna et al.)
  - Indrani Gupta
  Supported by : Population Council

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(IX) Labour and Welfare

• Rural Water Supply (RWS) in India : Review of Effectiveness of Government Subsidy Schemes
  - B.N. Goldar
  - Purnamita Dasgupta
  - Vikram Dayal
  Supported by : World Bank



• National Strategy for the Urban Poor
  - B.N. Goldar
  - Arup Mitra
  - Indrani Gupta
  - Purnamita Dasgupta
  - K. Subodh
  Supported by : Ministry of Urban Development/UNDP



• Imported Technology and Employment : Findings for Select Manufacturing Industries in India
  -Arup Mitra
  -Atsushi Kato



• Rural to Urban Migration in India
  -Arup Mitra
  -Mayumi Murayama



• Mathematical Models in Economics : Labour Economics.
  -Arup Mitra