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Pulapre Balakrishnan is an honorary visiting Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvanathapuram. He has also held the positions of 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
Food deprivation: A thali index reveals what poverty estimates do not
Poverty in India is typically estimated based on a poverty line that identifies the purchasing power needed to satisfy the daily calorific intake deemed necessary. In this post, Balakrishnan and Raj m...
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Pulapre Balakrishnan
Aman Raj
06 June, 2025
- Perspectives
Making sense of the 2024 Economics Nobel
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”. In this post, Pulapre Balakrishnan evaluate...
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Pulapre Balakrishnan
06 December, 2024
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Growth, well-being and distribution in the last decade – II
In the first part of this two-part series, Balakrishnan and Parameswaran presented an assessment of the performance of the Indian economy on macroeconomic indicators. In this post, they focus on well-...
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Pulapre Balakrishnan
M. Parameswaran
22 March, 2024
- Perspectives
Growth, well-being and distribution in India in the last decade – I
As India gets ready to vote in the general election, Balakrishnan and Parameswaran present a comprehensive, evidence-based review of the performance of the Indian economy over the past decade. In the ...
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Pulapre Balakrishnan
M. Parameswaran
20 March, 2024
- Perspectives
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...
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Pulapre Balakrishnan
M. Parameswaran
19 July, 2023
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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...
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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...
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Pulapre Balakrishnan
M. Parameswaran
20 January, 2021
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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’.
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Pulapre Balakrishnan
21 December, 2016
- Perspectives