Contributor : Profile
@PulapreB
pulapre.balakrishnan@gmail.comPulapre Balakrishnan is Professor of Economics at Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana and Senior Fellow-elect at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Kerala. His research has been in the areas of inflation, growth and productivity in India. Balakrishnan is a recipient of the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contribution to Development Studies.
Posts by Pulapre Balakrishnan
Effect of food prices on inflation: Is monetary policy an effective tool?
With rising inflation becoming a global concern, Balakrishnan and Parameswaran discuss some explanations for the high inflation in India. They find that inflation was driven by a domestic rise in food...
-
Pulapre Balakrishnan M. Parameswaran 
19 July, 2023
- Articles
Growth in India: Narratives and evidence
There are various narratives on the trajectory of India’s economic growth, and its key determining factors. This article analyses the recently released GDP data series at 2011-12 prices, extending b...
-
Pulapre Balakrishnan Mausumi Das M. Parameswaran
- 15 April, 2021
- Perspectives
Evaluating inflation targeting in India
In March 2021, India will complete five years since the adoption of the inflation targeting framework by the government and RBI. Analysing inflation data since 1996 using alternative models, this arti...
-
Pulapre Balakrishnan M. Parameswaran
- 20 January, 2021
- Articles
Book review: 'India’s long road' by Vijay Joshi
In this article, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Professor of Economics at Ashoka University, reviews Vijay Joshi’s book, ‘India’s long road: The search for prosperity’.
-
Pulapre Balakrishnan
- 21 December, 2016
- Perspectives