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Bishwanath Goldar is a Retired Professor of Economics of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Delhi. He is currently a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute of Economic Growth. He has an MA in economics and PhD from Delhi School of Economics (DSE), University of Delhi.
He has been at IEG from 1979 to 2014, except for three brief stints at a professorial or equivalent position at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) (1988-90), the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) (2003-04), and the Centre for International Trade and Development, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) (2012-13). During 2015-2016, he was a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), affiliated with IEG. He is a former member of the National Statistical Commission.
He has been associated with several committees of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India. At present, he is the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on National Accounts Statistics and a member of the Steering Committee of National Sample Surveys. He has many publications in economic journals. His areas of research interest include productivity measurement, industry, trade, foreign direct investment, industrial pollution, energy use of industries, river water pollution, and rural water supply.
Posts by Bishwanath Goldar
Post-Covid informal manufacturing growth: How states fared
Recently released official data show an expansion in informal manufacturing in India in the post-pandemic period. In this post, Goldar and Aggarwal conduct a cross-state analysis and highlight that Bi...
- Suresh Chand Aggarwal Bishwanath Goldar
- 04 November, 2024
- Articles
Share of manufacturing in India’s total employment: No mean performance
Available jobs data show only a modest increase in the share of manufacturing in India’s total employment in the last 50 years. In this post, Bishwanath Goldar highlights that the outsourcing of ser...
- Bishwanath Goldar
- 06 September, 2024
- Perspectives
Formalisation of informal manufacturing enterprises in India
Employment in India’s organised manufacturing sector has grown rapidly since 2004. This article finds that about 15% of this growth can be attributed to the formalisation of previously informal ente...
- Bishwanath Goldar
- 01 March, 2023
- Articles
How operational efficiency of India's ports impacts its manufacturing exports
The average turnaround time of Indian ports has come down significantly since 2010, indicating improvement in their operational efficiency. However, it still is more than two times the level in some o...
- Bishwanath Goldar Mahua Paul
- 10 June, 2019
- Articles