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Viktoria Hnatkovska

University of British Columbia
hnatkovs@interchange.ubc.ca

Currently, Viktoria Hnatkovska is an Associate Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. She joined UBC in 2006 after completing her Ph.D. degree in Economics at Georgetown University. Viktoria’s research expertise is in the areas of Macroeconomics, International Finance, Development Economics, and Computational Methods. Her works are published in numerous journals in these fields. Prior to joining UBC Viktoria worked at the World Bank and United National Development Programme in Vietnam.

Posts by Viktoria Hnatkovska

The 'urban sprawl' and declining rural-urban inequality

India has experienced rapid urbanisation in the past three decades. Has urbanisation impacted the economic wellbeing of rural and urban workers? This column finds that the rural-urban wage gap has sh...

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Saving Behaviour in India: Understanding the differences across castes

The past three decades in India have witnessed a sharp reduction in the historically large gaps in the education levels, occupation choices and wages of the backward castes relative to the rest of the...

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Macroeconomic Takeoff and Distributional Churning in India

The past 25 years have witnessed a remarkable economic catch-up by the historically discriminated against scheduled castes and tribes (SC/STs) in India towards non-SC/ST levels in terms of their educa...

  • IGC Research on India