Unpublished Papers

The Failure of COVAX: A Predictable Outcome (2023)

with Arnab Acharya, Working Paper.

Strategies for antigen testing: An alternative approach to widespread PCR testing (2021)

medRxiv, April 7th.

Covid-19 and the “Return of the Normative” in Economic Policy (2021)

Working Paper, March 22nd.

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.

Who Got What, Then and Now? A Fifty Year Overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project (2015)

with Rahul Lahoti and Arjun Jayadev, Working Paper.

The Middle Muddle: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Global Middle Class (2015)

with Rahul Lahoti and Arjun Jayadev, Working Paper.

Planning is Dead. Long Live Planning! (2015)

Working Paper.

The Emperor’s New Suit: Global Poverty Estimates Reappraised (Extended Version) (2009)

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, WP 79, Dec. 2009. Working Paper of SCEPA (New School). Forthcoming in the Economic and Political Weekly.

Pareto Improving International Labor Standards Agreements: A Simple Model (2006)

Working Paper.

Choice of Index Numbers, Part I: Valuation and Evaluation (2006)

with Benjamin Plener, Columbia ISERP Working Paper.

How Not to Count the Poor, Extended version (2005)

with Thomas Pogge, Working Paper.

The Index Number Problem and Poverty Monitoring: The Unique Advantages of a Capability Approach (2003)

Working Paper.

Making Trade Policy Work for the Poor: Shifting from Dogma to Detail (2002)

with Howard Nye, Working Paper.

How Not to Count the Poor! A Reply to Ravallion (2002)

with Thomas Pogge, Working Paper.

Bargaining and Distribution: Essays on International Integration and National Regulation (2000)

PhD Thesis, Harvard University, August.

Realizing the Promise of an Indian Democracy (1999)

Working Paper.

The Freedom to Choose Freely (1997)

Working Paper.

Economics and Nationalism – Two Theses (1995)

Working Paper.

Collective Rights: Concept and Content (1994)

Working Paper.