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Education
B.A.
(Economics).
1974. Loyola
College,
University of
Madras.
Post-Graduate
Diploma in
Business
Administration.
1976. Indian
Institute of
Management,
Ahmedabad.
M.Sc.
(Economics).
1981. London
School of
Economics and
Political
Science, London
University.
Research
Interests
Aspects of
Social and
Economic
Measurement;
with specific
reference to
Poverty,
Inequality,
Discrimination,
and Demographic
Indicators;
Development
Economics;
Collective
Choice Theory
and Welfare
Economics.
Academic
Output
a. Books
(Editor).
Themes in
Development
Economics:
Essays in Honour
of Malcolm
Adiseshiah.
Oxford
University
Press: Delhi.
1992.
(Editor).
Measurement of
Inequality and
Poverty
(Readers in
Economics
Series). Oxford
University
Press: Delhi.
1997. Reprinted
(Oxford India
Paperbacks):
2000, 2002.
(Co-editor, with
Barbara Harriss-White).
Illfare in
India: Essays on
India’s Social
Sector in Honour
of S. Guhan.
Sage Publishers:
Delhi. 1999.
(Editor).
India’s
Development
Experience:
Selected
Writings of S.
Guhan.
Oxford
University
Press: Delhi.
2001. Reprinted
(Oxford India
Paperbacks):
2002.
Rights,
Deprivation, and
Disparity:
Essays in
Concepts and
Measurement
(Collected
Essays Series).
Oxford
University
Press: Delhi.
2006.
(with D Jayaraj):
Poverty,
Inequality, and
Population:
Essays in
Development and
Applied
Measurement.
Oxford
University
Press: Delhi.
2010. (Enlarged
Paperback
Edition: 2012.)
The Poverty
Line (Oxford
India Short
Introductions
Series). Oxford
University
Press: Delhi.
2012.
(forthcoming):
Economic
Offences: A
Compendium of
Crimes in Prose
and Verse
(to be published
by Oxford
University
Press, Delhi).
b. Articles
in Books (which
have not
appeared
elsewhere) and
Journals
(published and
forthcoming):
Post-2000
Articles
in Books
(2003). `Aspects
of Global
Deprivation and
Disparity: A
Child’s Guide to
Some
Simple-minded
Arithmetic’, in
F. Carlucci and
F. Marzano
(eds.):
Poverty, Growth
and Welfare in
the World
Economy in the
21st
Century.
Peter Lang:
Bern.
(2005). (with
Taradas
Bandyopadhyay):
`A Relative View
of Absolute
Poverty: Some
Implications for
Identification,
Aggregation and
Policy
Intervention’,
in G. Mythili
and R. Hema
(eds.):
Topics in
Applied
Economics –
Tools, Issues,
and Institutions.
Academic
Foundation: New
Delhi.
(2006). ‘Poverty
Measures and
Anti-Poverty
Policy under an
Egalitarian
Constraint’, in
Rights,
Deprivation, and
Disparity
[hereafter
RDD], listed
above.
(2006). ‘Some
Simple Analytics
of Poverty
Redress through
Direct Income
Transfers and
Wage Employment
Programmes: A
Review and
Commentary’, in
RDD.
(2006). ‘Poverty
Measurement and
Theories of
Beneficence’, in
RDD.
(2006). ‘On
Trading Personal
Liberty’, in
RDD.
(2006). ‘A
Re-scaled
Version of the
Foster-Greer-Thorbecke
Poverty Indices
Based on an
Association with
the Minkowski
Distance
Function’, in
RDD.
(2006). ‘Social
Groups and
Economic
Poverty: A
Problem in
Measurement’, in
M. McGillivray
(ed.):
Inequality,
Poverty, and
Wellbeing.
Palgrave
Macmillan:
London.
(2007).
‘Indicators of
Inequality and
Poverty’, in M.
McGillivray
(ed.): Human
Well-being:
Concept and
Measurement.
Palgrave
Macmillan:
London.
(2007).
‘Poverty’, in K.
Basu (ed.):
The Oxford
Companion to
Economics in
India.
Oxford
University
Press: New
Delhi.
(2008). (with D.
Jayaraj): ‘The
Distribution of
Household Wealth
in India’, in J.
Davies (ed.):
Personal Wealth
from a Global
Perspective.
Oxford
University
Press:
Clarendon.
(2009). ‘A
Practical
Proposal for
Simplifying the
Measurement of
Income Poverty’,
in K. Basu and
R. Kanbur
(eds.):
Arguments for a
Better World:
Essays in Honour
of Amartya Sen,
Volume 1:
Ethics, Welfare,
and Measurement.
Oxford
University
Press:
Clarendon.
(2010).
‘Variable
Populations and
Inequality-Sensitive
Ethical
Judgments’, in
B.Basu, , B. K.
Chakrabarti, S.
R. Chakravarti
and K.
Gangopadhyay
(eds.):
Econophysics and
Economics of
Games, Social
Choices and
Quantitative
Techniques.
Springer-Verlag
Italia.
(Forthcoming/2013).
‘Poverty’, in
R.Dwyer, G.
Dharmpal Frick,
J.Phalkey and M.
Kirloskar-Steinbach
(eds.):
Keywords in
Modern Indian
Studies,
Oxford
University
Press: New
Delhi.
Articles
in Journals
(2000). (with
Kaushik Basu and
James E.
Foster):
`Isolated and
Proximate
Illiteracy, and
Why These
Concepts matter
in Measuring
Literacy and
Designing
Education
Programmes’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
35(1 & 2):
35-39.
(2000). (with D.
Jayaraj):
`Assessing the
“Femaleness” of
a Population’,
Journal
of
Development
Economics,
61(1): 271-289.
(2001). `On an
Index of
Discrimination’,
Journal of
Social and
Economic
Development,
3(2): 199-207.
(2001). (with
Manabi Majumdar):
`Capability
Failure and
Group
Disparities:
Some Evidence
from India for
the 1980s’,
Journal of
Development
Studies,
37(5): 104-140.
(2002). (with
Manabi Majumdar):
`On Measuring
Deprivation
Adjusted for
Group
Disparities’,
Social Choice
and Welfare,
19(2): 265-280.
(2002). (with D.
Jayaraj): `Child
Labour in Tamil
Nadu: A
Preliminary
Account of its
Nature, Extent,
and
Distribution’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
37(10): 941-954.
(2002). `An
Elementary
Interpretation
of the Gini
Inequality
Index’,
Theory and
Decision,
52(4): 375-379.
(2002).
`Counting the
Poor: An
Elementary
Difficulty in
the Measurement
of Poverty’,
Economics and
Philosophy,
18(2): 277-285.
(2003).
`Inter-Household
and Gender
Equity,
Efficiency, and
the Measurement
of Literacy’,
Journal of
Educational
Planning and
Administration,
249- 255.
(2004).
`Measuring
Literacy: Some
Extensions of
the Basu-Foster
Framework’,
Journal of
Development
Economics,
73(1): 453-463.
(2004). (with D.
Jayaraj):
`Abusing
Demography’
(review
article),
Economic and
Political Weekly,
39 (12):
1227-1236.
(2004). (with D.
Jayaraj):
`Women’s
Well-being and
the Sex Ratio at
Birth: Some
Suggestive
Evidence from
India’,
Journal of
Development
Studies,
40(5): 91-119.
(2005). (with D.
Jayaraj):
`Assessing the
“Agedness” of a
Population’,
Social
Indicators
Research,
72(3): 343-371.
(2005). `Unravelling
a Conceptual
Muddle: India’s
Poverty
Statistics in
the Light of
Basic Demand
Theory’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
40(1): 57-66.
(2005).
`Fractions
versus Whole
Numbers: On
Headcount
Comparisons of
Poverty Across
Variable
Populations’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
40(43):
4625-4628.
(2006). (with
D.Jayaraj):
`Horizontal and
Vertical
Inequality: Some
Interconnections
and Indicators’,
Social
Indicators
Research,
75(1): 123-139.
(2006). (with U.
Mishra): ‘On
Measuring
Group-Differentials
Displayed by
Socio-Economic
Indicators’,
Applied
Economics
Letters,
13(8): 519-521.
(2006). ‘A Sort
of Paretian
Liberalism’,
Journal of
International
Trade and
Economic
Development,
15(3): 311-324.
(2007). (with D.
Jayaraj):
‘Comparing the
Age Structures
of Populations’,
Applied
Economics
Letters,
14(7): 533-537.
(2007). (with D.
Jayaraj): ‘Out
of School and
(Probably) in
Work: Child
Labour and
Capability
Deprivation in
India’,
Journal of South
Asian
Development,
2(2): 177-226.
(2008). ‘On a
“Level-Sensitive”
Headcount Ratio:
Revisiting
Shorrocks’
Poverty Index’,
Social
Indicators
Research,
88(3): 477-482.
(2008).
‘Externality and
Literacy: A
Note’,
Journal of
Development
Studies,
44(6): 839-848.
Has also
appeared in K.
Basu, B. Maddox
and A.
Robinson-Pant
(eds.):
Interdisciplinary
Approaches to
Literacy and
Development,
Routledge, 2009.
(2008). ‘Global
Poverty,
Inequality, and
Aid Flows: A
Rough Guide to
some Simple
Justice’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
43(46): 53-63.
(2009).
‘Reckoning
Sub-Group
Poverty
Differentials in
the Measurement
of Aggregate
Poverty’,
Pacific Economic
Review,
14(1): 46-55.
(2009). ‘Poverty
Measurement in
the Presence of
a “Group
Affiliation
Externality”’,
Journal of
Human
Development,
10(1): 63-76.
(2009). (with D.
Jayaraj): ‘The
Wellbeing
Implications of
a Change in the
Sex-Ratio of a
Population’,
Social Choice
and Welfare,
33(1): 129-150.
(2009). (with D.
Jayaraj) :
‘Adjusting
Headcount
Deprivation for
Horizontal and
Spatial
Inequality: Some
Illustrative
Examples Using
Census Housing
Data’, Indian
Journal of Human
Development,
2(2): 425-434.
(2009). ‘The
Arrow Paradox
with Fuzzy
Preferences’,
Mathematical
Social Sciences,
58(2): 265-271.
(2009). (with D
Jayaraj):
‘India’s
Household Wealth
Distribution
Data: A Critical
Assessment’,
Indian Journal
of Human
Development,
3(2): 265-282.
(2009).
‘Revisiting the
Normalization
Axiom in Poverty
Measurement’,
Finnish Economic
Papers,
22(2): 89-98,
2009.
(2009). (with D.
Jayaraj): ‘A
Chakravarty-D’Ambrosio
View of
Multidimensional
Deprivation:
Some Estimates
for India’,
2009,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
45(6): 53-65.
(2009). ‘Poverty
Measures as
Normalized
Distance
Functions’,
Indian Economic
Review,
44(2): 171-183.
(2010).
‘Thinking
Through Justice’
[Review Article
on Amartya Sen’s
The Idea of
Justice],
Economic and
Political Weekly,
2010, 45(19):
33-42.
(2010). ‘Tricks
with the Lorenz
Curve’,
Economics
Bulletin,
30(2):
1594-1602.
(2010).
‘Inter-Group
Disparities in
the
Distributional
Analysis of
Human
Development:
Concepts,
Measurement, and
Illustrative
Applications’,
Review of
Black Political
Economy,
38(1): 27-52.
(2010).
‘Liberty,
Equality, and
Impossibility:
Some General
Results in the
Space of “Soft”
Preferences’,
Journal of
Economic Policy
Reform,
13(4): 325-341.
(2011). ‘A
Gender-Adjusted
Measure of
Literacy’,
Economics
Bulletin,
31(1): 436-441.
(2011). ‘Are
Egalitarians
Really
Vulnerable to
the Levelling
Down Objection
and the Divided
World Example?’,
Journal of
Philosophical
Economics,
IV(2): Spring
2011.
(2011).
‘Money-metric
Poverty
Identification:
A Cautionary
Note’,
Journal of
Economic
Analysis,
2(1): 35-56.
(2011).
‘Inequality
Measurement with
Subgroup
Decomposability
and
Level-Sensitivity’,
Economics:
The Open-Access,
Open-Assessment
E-Journal,
Vol. 5, 2011-9.
doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2011-9.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2011-9.
(2011). ‘On a
Normalized and
Replication-Invariant
“Threshold”
Measure of
Inequality’,
Journal of
Economic Theory
and Social
Development,
1(1): 67-79.
(2012). ‘Can We
Possibly
Subscribe To
Both Liberty and
Equality At One
And The Same
Time?’,
Think:
Philosophy for
Everyone
(Journal of the
Royal Institute
of Philosophy),
11 (30):
103-110,
doi:10.1017/S1477175611000418
(with Nicole
Hassoun) (2012):
‘An Aspect of
Variable
Population
Poverty
Comparisons’,
Journal of
Development
Economics,
98(2): 238-241.
(2012).
The Focus Axiom
and Poverty: On
the Co-existence
of Precise
Language
and Ambiguous
Meaning in
Economic
Mesurement’,
Economics: The
Open-Access,
Open-Assessment
E-Journal,
Vol. 6, 2012-8.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-8.
(2012). (with D.
Jayaraj): ‘On
the
Interpersonal
Inclusiveness of
India’s
Consumption
Growth’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
XLVII (45):
56-66.
(2013).
‘“Instrumentalism”
and Friedman’s
Methodology: A
Short
Objection’,
Quantity and
Quality:
International
Journal of
Methodology,
47(1): 577-580.
(Available
online -
DOI:
10.1007/s11135-011-9480-7.)
(forthcoming).
(with D. Jayaraj):
‘On the
Inter-Group
Inclusiveness of
India’s
Consumption
Expenditure
Growth’,
Economic and
Political Weekly.
c. Book
Reviews:
Post-2000
United Nations
Development
Programme:
Human
Development
Report 1999,
in
Interventions: A
Journal of
Postcolonial
Studies,
2000.
Amartya Sen:
Development as
Freedom, in
South Asia
Magazine for
Action and
Reflection (SAMAR),
2001.
Kunibert Raffer
and H.W.Singer:
The Economic
North-South
Divide: Six
Decades of
Unequal
Development,
in Journal of
Social and
Economic
Development,
2004.
Kaushik Basu
(ed.):
India’s Emerging
Economy:
Performance and
Prospects in the
1990s and Beyond,
in
International
Review of
Economics and
Finance,
2005.
Thomas Pogge:
Politics as
Usual: What Lies
Behind The
Pro-Poor
Rhetoric, in
Times Higher
Education,
October 7, 2010.
d.
Working/Discussion/Research
Papers:
Post-2000
(with D. Jayaraj):
`Group
Affiliation,
Externality, and
the Measurement
of Poverty’, S.
Guhan Memorial
Series
Discussion Paper
1: MIDS, 2000.
Aspects of
Global
Deprivation and
Disparity: A
Child’s Guide to
Some
Simple-minded
Arithmetic,
S. Guhan
Memorial Series
Monograph 2:
MIDS, 2000.
[Expanded
version of the
text of an
invited
presentation at
the conference
on
North-South
Relations in the
XXIst Century:
Well-beings,
Inequalities,
Opportunities,
organized by the
University of
Rome `La
Sapienza’,
Italy, 2000.]
`Poverty
Measurement and
the Repugnant
Conclusion’, S.
Guhan Memorial
Series
Discussion Paper
3: MIDS, 2000.
(with D. Jayaraj):
‘The
Distribution of
Household Wealth
in India’ UNU-WIDER
Research Paper
No. RP 2006/116.
2006.
‘International
Aid in Light of
Global Poverty
and Inequality’,
UNU-WIDER
Research Paper
No RP 2007/31.
2007.
‘A
Chakravarty-D’Ambrosio
Class of Social
Exclusion
Measures as a
Foster-Greer-Thorbecke
Class of
Headcount
Indices of
Multidimensional
Deprivation: An
Expository
Note’, S. Guhan
Memorial Series
(Themes in
Social Sector
Research)
Discussion Paper
No. 11, Madras
Institute of
Development
Studies,
Chennai. 2009.
‘The
Deprivation
Distribution
Profile: A
Graphical Device
for Comparing
Alternative
Regimes of
Multidimensional
Poverty’, S.
Guhan Memorial
Series (Themes
in Social Sector
Research)
Discussion Paper
No. 12, Madras
Institute of
Development
Studies,
Chennai. 2009.
‘Identifying the
Income-Poor:
Some
Controversies in
India and
Elsewhere’,
Discussion Paper
46 in the
Courant Research
Centre’s
Poverty, Equity
and Growth
Discussion
Papers Series,
Goettingen,
Germany.
‘Inequality
Measurement with
Subgroup
Decomposability
and Level
Sensitivity’,
Economics
Discussion
Papers, No
2011-7. http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2011-7
.
‘Variable
Populations and
the Measurement
of Poverty and
Inequality’,
WIDER Working
paper No. 053 ,
Helsinki,
Finland.
(with D Jayaraj):
‘On the
“Inclusiveness”
of India’s
Consumption
Expenditure
Growth’, WIDER
Working Paper
No. 057,
Helsinki,
Finland.
‘On a Distance
Function-Based
Measure of
Inequality
Measure in the
Spirit of the
Bonferroni and
Gini Indices’,
WIDER Working
Paper No. 062,
Helsinki,
Finland.
e. Other
Occasional
Writings:
Post-2000
‘Amartya Sen’ in
a special issue
of India
Today: 25 in
2000, 2000.
‘Well-Being and
the World
Today’, The
Hindu,
February 2001.
‘The Status of
the Child in
India’, Keynote
address at a
UNICEF Workshop
held in Chennai,
2002. (mimeo.)
‘Moral
Catastrophes and
Immoral
Reasoning’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
June 2002.
(with D. Jayaraj):
‘Manufacturing
Hysteria: On
Census-Inspired
Nationalism’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
September 2004.
‘Headcount
Poverty
Comparisons’,
International
Poverty Centre
One Pager No.
18, United
Nations
Development
Programme:
Brasilia,
Brazil.
‘Examining the
Creamy Layer
Principle’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
November 2006.
‘The Creamy
Layer Principle:
A Reply to K.
Sundaram and K.
Ravi Srinivas’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
January 2007.
[Both the above
articles have
been reprinted
in S. Thorat and
N. Kumar (eds.):
In Search of
Inclusive
Policy:
Assessing Graded
Inequality,
2008, Indian
Institute of
Dalit Studies
and Rawat
Publishers, New
Delhi.]
‘Amartya Sen’,
in a special
issue of
India Today: 60
Greatest Indians,
April 2008.
‘How Many Poor
in the World?’,
Editorial in
Economic and
Political Weekly,
43(43): 5-6,
October 25,
2008.
‘”How Many Poor
in the World?”:
A Critique of
Ravallion’s
Reply’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
44(5): 67-71,
January 31,
2009.
‘A Poem on
Poverty: The
Saga of World
Poverty’,
Challenge: The
Magazine for
Economists,
52(4): ,
July/August,
2009.
‘Clerihews/ In
Merry Hues:/ An
A-to-Z of The
Lives and Times/
Of Economists in
Jolly Rhymes’,
Royal
Economic Society
Newsletter,
Issue 146,
July-September,
2009.
‘1936 And All
That’, Royal
Economic Society
Newsletter,
Issue 148,
January-March,
2010.
‘“Inclusive
Development” and
the Quintile
Income
Statistic’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
XLVI (4): 69-72.
‘The Poverty
Line: Getting It
Wrong Again’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
XLVI (48):
37-42, November
26, 2011.
‘Writing
Economics in
Exactly 300
Words: Two
Samples in the
Tradition of J.
B. Morton
(‘Beachcomber’),
Eostre
(Delhi School of
Economics
Students’
Journal).
f. Work in
Progress/ Papers
Circulated for
Comments
(with A. F.
Shorrocks):
‘Poverty: An
Overview’.
(with A. F.
Shorrocks):
‘Inequality: An
Overview’.
Social
Values, Social
Choice, and
Social
Indicators:
Selected Essays
in Economic
Theory and
Measurement.
‘Are
Egalitarians
Really
Vulnerable to
the Levelling
Down Objection
and the Divided
World Example?’.
‘Ten Million
Instances of
Sex-Selective
Abortion in
India over the
Last Two
Decades? A
Comment on a
Lancet
Article by Jha
et al’.
‘Equality,
Priority, and
Distributional
Judgments’.
(with D. Jayaraj):
‘The Evolution
of Consumption
and Wealth
Inequality in
India: A
Quantitative
Assessment’.
(with D. Jayaraj):
‘Growth and
Inequality in
the Distribution
of India’s
Consumption
Expenditure’.
(with D. Jayaraj):
‘Aspects of the
Evolution of
Economic
Inequality in
India’.
Other
Academic
Information
Awarded the
Dudley Seers
Memorial Prize
(Economics
category) for
2001, for the
paper
`Capability
Failure and
Group
Disparities:
Some Evidence
from India for
the 1980s’, in
Journal of
Development
Studies,
co-authored with
Manabi Majumdar..
Elected Fellow
of the Human
Development and
Capability
Association
(2004 – 2009).
One of three
Lead Editors of
a Special (2006)
Issue of
Journal of Human
Development.
Member,
Editorial Board:
Contemporary
Issues and Ideas
in Social
Sciences
(website
journal).
Member,
Editorial
Advisory Board:
Journal of
Human
Development
(2006-2008).
Associate
Editor:
Journal of Human
Development
(2008-).
Invited to
lecture at the
Summer School on
Development
2007:
Inequality,
Growth and Human
Development
(July 1-6 2007),
organized by
Unidea-UniCredit
Foundation, the
University of
Florence and the
European
Development
Network (EUDN),
and conducted in
Civita
Castellana,
Viterbo, Italy.
In 2008, the
International
Poverty Centre’s
One-Pager # 18
‘Headcount
Poverty
Comparisons’ was
selected by the
IPC as one of ‘…
ten insightful
readings [in the
One-Pager
series] to mark
the global
campaign “STAND
UP and TAKE
ACTION against
Poverty and for
the Millennium
Development
Goals.”’
One of four Lead
Editors of a
Special (2010)
Issue of
Journal of Human
Development(forthcoming).
In 2012, was
nominated for –
but not awarded!
– the O2
prize for the
most outstanding
journal article
in the field of
health,
education, and
welfare
published in the
Economics
E-Journal.
[Nominated
article: ‘The
Focus Axiom and
Poverty: On the
Co-existence of
Precise Language
and Ambiguous
Meaning in
Economic
Measurement’,
Economics: The
Open-Access,
Open-Assessment
E-Journal,
Vol. 6, 2012-8.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-8.]
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