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Anubhab Pattanayak
Anubhab Pattanayak is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He works primarily in the area of environmental economics, focusing on issues relating to climate change. His research interests are mostly interdisciplinary in nature.
He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Madras, Chennai, with a doctoral thesis titled 'Economic Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Indian Agriculture' which assessed the physical impacts of historical weather sensitivity of rice crop and estimated the costs of adapting to climate change.
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Fiscal transfers and natural calamities: Does political alignment matter?
Fiscal transfers from the central government serve as an important mechanism for state governments to mitigate adverse impacts of extreme climate events. This article demonstrates that higher allocations are made to states that are politically aligned with the Centre. Further, the scope for such partisan politics is greater in case of slow onset events such as droughts, as compared to floods that manifest relatively quickly.
