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Nirvikar Singh is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where he holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies. He also directs UCSC’s Center for Analytical Finance, and its South Asian Studies Initiative. He is a member of the Advisory Group to the Finance Minister of India on G-20 matters. He previously served as Director of the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics, Co-Director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, Special Advisor to the Chancellor (all at UCSC), and Consultant to the Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He organised one of the first major US conferences on Indian economic reform.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, where he was awarded the Allyn Young Prize, Gonner Prize and Ely Devons Prize.
Professor Singh’s current research topics include entrepreneurship, information technology and development, electronic commerce, business strategy, political economy, federalism, economic growth and the Indian economy. He has authored over 100 research papers and co-authored/edited four books: Joint Ventures, International Investment and Technology Transfer; The Political Economy of Federalism in India; Waiting to Connect: India IT Revolution Bypasses the Domestic Industry; and The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Pacific Rim. He has also served as an advisor for several startups and knowledge services firms in Silicon Valley and in India.
Posts by Nirvikar Singh
The Indian economy and policymaking: Towards ‘openness’
Providing his perspective on the recent policy paper by Subramanian and Felman, Nirvikar Singh contends that more emphasis is needed on financial reforms and innovation, addressing India’s export sl...
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Nirvikar Singh
29 January, 2021
- Perspectives
Farm laws: Reform needed but not at expense of small farmers
Commenting on the controversial farm laws, Kaushik Basu and Nirvikar Singh contend that the government should withdraw these laws, return to the drafting table, engage with farmers and states, and inc...
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Kaushik Basu
Nirvikar Singh
21 December, 2020
- Perspectives
केंद्रीय बजट 2020 और भारत का आर्थिक भविष्य
इस पोस्ट में, निर्विकार सिंह ने यह चर्चा की है कि हम हाल ही में प्रस्तुत केंद्रीय बजट से भारत की अर्थव्यवस्था की संभावित दिशा के बारे में क्या जान सकते हैं। वे कहते हैं कि, हालांकि भारत की अर्थव्यवस्थ...
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Nirvikar Singh
20 फ़रवरी, 2020
- दृष्टिकोण
Union Budget 2020 and India’s economic future
In this post, Nirvikar Singh discusses what we can learn from the recently presented Union Budget about the possible direction of India’s economy. He contends that, though the Budget is positive in ...
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Nirvikar Singh
07 February, 2020
- Perspectives
Management and India’s economic growth
India has produced a well-recognised elite of managers, some of whom have demonstrated their capabilities in premier firms outside the country. In this post, Nirvikar Singh discusses existing empirica...
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Nirvikar Singh
20 July, 2018
- Perspectives
Financial inclusion: Concepts, issues, and policies for India
The International Growth Centre recently brought out a synthesis paper (Singh 2017) that lays out the basic concepts surrounding financial inclusion, and reviews a wide range of IGC and other studies ...
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Nalini Gulati
Nirvikar Singh
17 August, 2017
- Perspectives
Union Budget 2016: Will it support India's economic transformation?
In this year’s Budget speech, the Finance Minister articulated the government’s agenda to ‘Transform India’ through a set of economic reforms framed in terms of ‘nine pillars’ - agricultur...
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Nirvikar Singh
08 March, 2016
- Perspectives
Foreign currency borrowing by Indian firms: What do we know?
As foreign currency borrowing by Indian firms has been increasing, concerns have surfaced about rising associated risks. Hence, recent policy changes seeking to make the regulatory regime simpler and...
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Ila Patnaik
Ajay Shah
Nirvikar Singh
09 November, 2015
- Articles
Foreign borrowing by Indian firms: Implications for growth and macroeconomic stability
This project analyses the pattern of external borrowing by Indian firms, an exercise that has as yet not been carried out. It identifies possible drivers of such borrowing.
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Ila Patnaik
Ajay Shah
Nirvikar Singh
30 June, 2015
- IGC Research on India
The 2015-16 Union budget and India's growth
The 2015-16 Union budget – the first full-year budget of the new government – was presented last week. In this article, Nirvikar Singh, Professor of Economics at the University of California Sant...
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Nirvikar Singh
04 March, 2015
- Perspectives
'Cry, the Beloved Country': Mending Punjab's economy
The growth rate of Punjab, which once ranked among India’s most affluent states, is slowing. In this article, Nirvikar Singh, who holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at...
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Nirvikar Singh
11 February, 2015
- Articles
Challenges and priorities for financial sector reform in India
I4I Editor Nirvikar Singh (Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz) interviews K.P. Krishnan (Former Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance) on the central ...
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K.P. Krishnan
Nirvikar Singh
17 November, 2014
- Perspectives