Research & Writing
Development Strategy
Articles
The UN’s Development Function: Time for Renewal (2018)
Development, Volume 61, pp. 108-114.
$1.90 a day: What does it say? (2016)
with Rahul Lahoti, The New Left Review, Volume 97.
Randomise This!: On Poor Economics (2012)
Review of Agrarian Studies, Volume 2, Issue 2, July-December.
Public Policy Analysis Today and Tomorrow (2012)
Jindal Journal of Public Policy, Volume 1, Issue 1.
Economics and Human Rights: A Non- Conversation (2011)
Journal of Human Development, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 63-72.
Development Aid and Economic Growth: A Positive Long-Run Relation (2010)
with Camelia Minoiu, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 50, Issue 1, pp. 27-39.
Real Income Stagnation of Countries: 1960-2001 (2009)
with Camelia Minoiu, Journal of Development Studies, Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 1-23.
Global Development Goals: The Folly of Technocratic Pretensions (2008)
with Antoine Heuty, Development and Policy Review, Volume 26, Issue 1, pp. 5-28.
Global Development Goals: The Costs of Epistemic Conceit (2008)
with Antoine Heuty, Economic and Political Weekly, February 9, XLIII(6), pp. 68-73.
Aid Does Matter After All: Revisiting the Relationship between Aid and Growth (2007)
with Camelia Minoiu, Challenge, Volume 50, Issue 2, pp. 39-58.
International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage (2007)
with Christian Barry, Cornell International Law Journal, Volume 39, Issue 3, pp. 545-639.
Learning to Learn: Undoing the Gordian Knot of Development Today (2007)
with Charles Sabel, Challenge, Volume 50, Issue 5, pp. 73-92.
Death in China: Life Expectancy and Economic Reforms (2007)
New Left Review, Volume 45, pp. 49-65.
Peer and Partner Review: A Practical Approach to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (2005)
with Antoine Heuty, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 399-420.
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Make a Contribution to International Solidarity and the Quest for Social Justice in the South? (2004)
Response to Franck Amalric, Development, Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 3-8.
Beyond the State vs. the Market (1997)
Development, September.
An Independent Press Working Against Famine: The Nigerian Experience (1988)
Journal of Modern African Studies, Issue 2.
Books
Book Chapters
International Trade as a Means to Diverse Ends: Development, Workers, the Environment, and Global Public Goods (2015)
in Trade in the Service of Sustainable Development, ed. by Olivier De Schutter.
Critique of Dollar and Kraay on Trade, Growth and Poverty (2008)
with H. Nye, in Globalization and the Problem of Poverty, ed. Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning, Edward Elgar, pp. 343-353.
Aid Does Matter After All: Revisiting the Relationship between Aid and Growth (2007)
with Camelia Minoiu, in Growth Divergences: Explaining Differences in Economic Performance, eds. Jose Antonio Ocampo, Jomo K.S. and Robert Vos, United Nations Publications and Zed Books, pp. 257-279.
Safety Nets for the Poor: A Missing International Dimension? (2006)
in Pro-Poor Macroeconomics: Potential and Limitations, ed. G.A. Cornia, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 144-165.
A Rising Tide of Demands: India’s Public Institutions and the Democratic Revolution (2005)
in Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design, ed. Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, pp. 457-475.
The Impact of Adjustment Related Social Funds on Income Distribution and Poverty (2004)
with Giovanni Andrea Corniain, Inequality, Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization, ed. G.A. Cornia , Oxford University Press, pp. 271-294.
Strategies of Social Provision: Key Design Issues (2001)
in Social Provision in Low-Income Countries ed. G. Mwabu, C. Ugaz and G. White, Oxford University Press, pp. 101-122.
Financing Basic Social Services (2001)
with J. Harrington and C. Porter, in Choices for the Poor: Lessons from National Poverty Strategies, ed. A. Grinspun, New York: UNDP, pp. 173-202.
Op-Eds, Letters, Interviews, etc
Developing countries need a new economic model for global aid (2023)
Financial Times, January 11.
The Economic Case for a People’s Vaccine (2020)
Boston Review, September 15.
A policy road map to tackle COVID-19 (2020)
The Hindu, April 28.
Interview: The Covid-19 crisis in India, the US, and the World (2020)
English Text of Interview with Telugu newspaper Eenadu, April 21.
Lockdown or not? Covid-19 raises key questions on decision-making in a democracy, like India (2020)
The Print, March 31.
Economics’ Biggest Success Story Is a Cautionary Tale (2019)
Foreign Policy, October 22.
With cash transfers, both BJP and Congress are showing no imagination in fighting poverty (2019)
The Print, March 29.
All that is Wrong with Modi Govt’s Obsession with Ease of Doing Business Rankings (2018)
The Print, November 27.
UNDP Data on Poverty Show Gains are in Line with Modi’s Slogan, not a Product of it (2018)
The Print, October 26.
Warning Signs from Africa? (2018)
The New Internationalist, July 1.
Does the World really need Development Goals? (2015)
with Ingrid Kvangraven, Financial Times, August 28.
Economics Beyond the Economists (2013)
Economic and Political Weekly, August 17.
Bias for Workers Would Foster Asia Trade (2012)
Financial Times, May 14.
Underwriting the Poor (2012)
with Olivier De Schutter, Project Syndicate, June 6.
Knowledge in Development: Fostering Knowledge Generation in the Global South (2010)
Triple Crisis, March 2.
Right to Food Act: Essential but Inadequate (2009)
with Rahul Lahoti, The Hindu. July 28.
Interview (2007)
in The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power, ed. Nermeen Shaikh. Columbia University Press.
Alternative Ways to Link Trade with Labour Standards (2007)
with Christian Barry, Financial Times, June 2.
False Dilemma of the Sweatshop (2006)
with Christian Barry, Financial Times, July 24.
Promoting Poor Countries; Interests in the International Trading System: A Proposal (2005)
with Christian Barry, Economic Times (India), December 8.
A Forceful Message, but Will it End Poverty? (2005)
with Antoine Heuty, The Hindu (India), April 22. Republished as “One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Learning from India’s Fight Against Poverty” in IAEA Bulletin 47/1, 2005, pp. 19-20.
Reports
The Role of BRICS in the World Economy and International Development (2017)
Prepared for the New Development Bank, September.
Strategies for Attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (2016)
Background Paper for UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, February.
Introduction: Towards the Arab Renaissance (2011)
UNDP Arab Development Challenges Background Paper.
Institutions for Innovation: Reflections on an Agenda for Long-Term Development (in Portuguese) (2009)
Report of Conference Remarks. Presidency of The Republic of Brazil. Secretary of Strategic Affairs. Brasilia.
Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policy: Lessons from the Asia-Pacific Region (2008)
Prepared for UNDP Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: What’s Wrong with Existing Analytical Models? (2006)
with Antoine Heuty, UN-DESA Working Paper No. 30, September.
The Role and Reform of the State (1998)
with Anthony Pereira, Discussion Paper of the Office of Development Studies, United Nations Development Programme.
Social Funds in Developing Countries: Recent Experiences and Lessons (1998)
Unicef Staff Working Paper.
Toward Adjustment for Development: Sustainable and People-Centred (1997)
Prepared for the United Nations Development Programme.
User Financing of Basic Social Services: Theory and Experiences, with Jan Vandemoortele (1996)
Unicef Staff Working Paper.
Social Safety Nets in Latin America and East Asia: A Comparative Study (1994)
Prepared for the World Bank.
Unpublished Papers
The Construction of the DALY: Implications and Anomalies (2019)
with Sudhir Anand, Working Paper.
Global Development Goals: If at all, Why, When and How? (2015)
with Ingrid Kvangraven, Working Paper.
Planning is Dead. Long Live Planning! (2015)
Working Paper.
Making Trade Policy Work for the Poor: Shifting from Dogma to Detail (2002)
with Howard Nye, Working Paper.
Realizing the Promise of an Indian Democracy (1999)
Working Paper.