Research Papers

Covid-19

• The Tale of two Crises in the Time of Covid-19  |  June 2020  |  pdf
• The devil in the Covid-19 detail  |  2020  |  A policy note published in Prism, May 2020 | pdf

Economic Growth

• Economic Oases, Deserts and Mirages  |  2018  |  pdf | ...
• Solow-Swan growth model and the fortunes of the commons | 2018. MPRA Paper No. 87921. | pdf | slides ...

Miscellaneous

• Markets, Space and Infrastructure, May 2023  |  pdf | slides
• The real enemy within: A comprehensive analysis of terrorist kill zones across the world | Jun 2019  |  pdf | slides
• Rural and Urban Poverty in India: A Spatial Perspective, January 2019  |  slides

Technology

• Have I got a job for you? Automation, Market Structure and Skills | Feb 2019. | pdf | slides |
• Man versus Machine: Automation, Market Structure and Skills | June 2017 |
  SSRN Working Paper.    | pdf | Slides |   .
• The decline of chartered markets in 19th century Britain. June 2017.
  Working paper (with Lanxi Tu and Leigh Shaw-Taylor)    | pdf |
  

Microfinance

• Beyond Microcredit: Giving the Poor a Way to Save Their Way out of Poverty. February 2018    | pdf |  Slides |   .
• Sequential Group Lending with Moral Hazard. August 2013.    | pdf | Slides |
• The Micro in Microfinance, 2009    | pdf |
• Reworking Chowdhury (2005), June 2014    | pdf |
• Does Subsidising the Cost of Capital Really Help the Poorest? An Analysis of Saving Opportunities in Group Lending, February 2007. Edinburgh School of Economics Discussion Paper Series No. 140. | pdf |
• Self Help Group Linkage Programme: A case-study, November 2006    | pdf | Slides |
• Self Help Groups: Use of modified ROSCAs in Microfinance, November 2005. Edinburgh School of Economics Discussion Paper Series No. 137. | pdf |