Research & Writing
Poverty: Causality & Policy
Articles
Why Nobelists Fail (2025)
Development and Change, Volume 55, Issue 4.
The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An Overview (2016)
with Rahul Lahoti and Arjun Jayadev, Journal of Globalization and Development, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp.61-108.
Randomise This!: On Poor Economics (2012)
Review of Agrarian Studies, Volume 2, Issue 2, July-December.
Kernel Density Estimation on Grouped Data: The Case of Poverty Assessment (2012)
with Camelia Minoiu, The Journal of Economic Inequality, Volume 18, pp.160-178.
On Measuring Deprivation and Living Standards of Societies in a Multi-Attribute Framework (2011)
with Prasanta Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, Oxford Economic Papers, first published online: August 12.
Estimating Poverty and Inequality from Grouped Data: How well do Parametric Methods Perform? (2009)
with Camelia Minoiu, Journal of Income Distribution, Volume 18, Issue 2.
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.
International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage (2007)
with Christian Barry, Cornell International Law Journal, Volume 39, Issue 3, pp. 545-639.
Death in China: Life Expectancy and Economic Reforms (2007)
New Left Review, Volume 45, pp. 49-65.
An Independent Press Working Against Famine: The Nigerian Experience (1988)
Journal of Modern African Studies, Issue 2.
Book Chapters
Entitlements and Capabilities (2021)
with Adel Daoud, in The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach, ed. Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Mozaffar Qizilbash, and Siddiqur Osmani. Cambridge University Press.
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.
Globalization, Labor Markets and Social Outcomes in Developing Countries (2005)
in Understanding Globalization, Employment and Poverty Reduction , ed. Marco Vivarelli and Eddy Lee, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 309-326.
Comment on “Trade Liberalization, FDI and Income Inequality”; by Professor Giovanni Andrea Cornia (2005)
in Understanding Globalization, Employment and Poverty Reduction, ed. Marco Vivarelli and Eddy Lee, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 208-210.
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
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.
Underwriting the Poor (2012)
with Olivier De Schutter, Project Syndicate, June 6.
Right to Food Act: Essential but Inadequate (2009)
with Rahul Lahoti, The Hindu. July 28.
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
From Principles to Practice: A Method for Identifying Income Sufficiency When Applying International Legal Standards (2018)
Prepared for the International Labour Organization Social Protection Department.
Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policy: Lessons from the Asia-Pacific Region (2008)
Prepared for UNDP Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific.
Social Funds in Developing Countries: Recent Experiences and Lessons (1998)
Unicef Staff Working Paper.
User Financing of Basic Social Services: Theory and Experiences, with Jan Vandemoortele (1996)
Unicef Staff Working Paper.