Sabyasachi Kar
Sabyasachi Kar
Sabyasachi Kar is the Director at the Institute of Economic Growth. He also holds the RBI Chair Professorship at the institute. Professor Kar has held an Honorary Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester, UK, and been a Research Partner at the ESRC GPID research network based at the King's College London. He is a member of the committee on Regional Accounts set up by MOSPI, Government of India, and of the CII Economic Affairs Council. He has numerous academic publications in national and international journals of repute and his latest books include 'The Political Economy of India's Growth Episodes', published by Palgrave Macmillan, UK, and “How LMICs Could Increase Productivity”, published by Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo.
Professor Kar received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University and his academic research spans macroeconomics, economic growth, development economics and political economy, with a particular focus on the Indian economy. Over the years, he has worked closely with government organizations such as the Indian Planning Commission, and later with the NITI Aayog, contributing macroeconomic projections and other inputs to the formulation of economic policy for the Indian economy. He has collaborated academically with international organizations like the World Bank, the Global Development Network (GDN), the European Commission, and the DFID, UK. He has also held the RBI Chair Professorship at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and was Co-editor of the Journal of South Asian Development.
Email ID : skar@iegindia.org
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- Sabyasachi Kar & Saon Ray Inclusive structural transformation in India: Past episodes and future trajectories The Developer's Dilemma
- Kar, Sabyasachi and Sen, Kunal (2016) The Political Economy of India's Growth Episodes Palgrave MacMillan, UK
- Das, Mausumi, Kar, Sabyasachi, and Nawn, Nandan (Eds.) (2016) Economic Challenges for a Contemporary World: Essays in Honour of Prabhat Patnaik SAGE, New Delhi
- Kar, Sabyasachi, Pritchett, Lant, Raihan, Selim and Sen, Kunal. (2013) Dynamics of Economic Growth: A visual handbook of growth rates, regimes, transitions and volatility. Manchester, DFID/ESID.
- Ghosh, Nilabja, Sabyasachi Kar and Suresh Sharma. (2009) Growing Rural Urban Disparity in Uttarakhand Serials Publications
- Bhattacharya, B.B. and Kar, Sabyasachi. (2007) Macroeconomic Reforms, Growth and Stability Oxford University Press
- Sabyasachi Kar, Amaani Bashir & Mayank Jain Do Machine Learning Techniques Provide Better Macroeconomic Forecasts? Economic and Political Weekly
- Sabyasachi Kar & Priyadarshini D. Assessing the viability of an Indian Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Indian Public Policy Review
- Mausumi Das & Sabyasachi Kar Untangling Policy Mishaps : How to Make Policies More Effective during a Pandemic Economic & Political Weekly
- Kar, Sabyasachi, Roy, Amrita and Sen, Kunal Double Trap: Institutions and Economic Development Economic Modelling
- Kar, Sabyasachi, Raihan, Selim and Sen, Kunal (2017) Do Economic Institutions Matter for Growth Episodes? University of Manchester
- Kar, Sabyasachi and Sen, Kunal. Boom and Bust? A Political Economy reading of India's Growth Experience 1993-2013 Economic and Political Weekly
- Kar, Sabyasachi etc. (2014) Trillions Gained and Lost: Estimating the Magnitude of Growth Episodes UK Centre for International Development (Harvard University)
- Kar, Sabyasachi. (2013) Looking for a Break: Identitifying Transitions in Growth Regimes Journal of Macroeconomics
- Kar, Sabyasachi Trillions Gained and Lost: Estimating the Magnitude of Growth Episodes ESID, UK
- Kar, Sabyasachi. (2011) Club Convergence and Polarisation of States: A Non-parametric Analysis of Post Reform India Indian Growth and Development Review, Vol. 4 (1)
- Ghosh, Nilabja; Kar, Sabyasachi and Sharma, Suresh. (2010) Inequalities of Income Opportunity in a Hilly State: A study of Uttarakhand F. Ram, T.V. Sekhar et. al. (eds.), Population, Health and Development in Uttarakhand. Delhi, Academic Foundation
- Kar, Sabyasachi and Pradhan, B. Shocks, Meltdowns, Policy Responses and Feasibility of High Growth in the Indian Economy: A Macroecnometric Approach Kirit Parikh (eds.), Macro-Modelling for the Eleventh Five Year Plan of India (Academic Foundation)
- Bhattacharya, B B and Kar, Sabyasachi. Domestic and External Shocks and their Impact on Economic Growth Kanchan Chopra and C.H. Hanumantha Rao (Eds.) Growth, Equity, Environment and Population: Economic and Sociological Perspectives, Sage Publications, 2007
- Kar, Sabyasachi Reforms and Regional Inequality in India Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLII, No.47
- Kar, Sabyasachi Regional Divergence in India during the Era of Liberalization: A Sectoral Decomposition The Journal of Developing Areas
- Kar, Sabyasachi Shocks and Long-Run Growth in Agriculture: A Macroeconomic Analysis India in a Globalizing World: Some Aspects of Macroeconomy, Agriculture and Poverty, New Delhi: Academic Foundation
- Kar, Sabyasachi Growth and Macroeconomic Imbalances in India Indian Economy and Society: The era of Globalization and Liberalization, New Delhi: Academic Foundation
- Kar, Sabyasachi Forecasting State Domestic Product and Inflation Economic and Political Weekly
- Bhattacharya, B B and Kar, Sabyasachi Growth and Stability in the Indian Economy in Post Reform Era: A Macro Econometric Evaluation Journal of Quantitative Economics
- Bhattacharya, B B and Kar, Sabyasachi Nexus between Growth and Fiscal and External Balances: A Macroeconometric Evaluation of Post-Reform India Econometric Models: Theory and Applications. Ed. by Nachane and others, Allied Publishers
- Bhattacharya, B B and Kar, Sabyasachi Can The Indian Economy Grow Faster? 5th Jrd Tata Memorial Lecture Series New Delhi: Assocham, 2002
- Bhattacharya, B B and Kar, Sabyasachi Are the Plan Targets Realistic? Economic Developments in India
Working Paper
- Priyadarshini, D. and Kar, Sabyasachi (Sep. 2021) Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): Critical Issues and the Indian Perspective
- Kar, Sabyasachi, Bashir, Amaani and Jain, Mayank (Oct.2021) New Approaches to Forecasting Growth and Inflation: Big Data and Machine Learning
- Kar, Sabyasachi and Jha, Debajit (Nov. 2021) Divergent Policies for Convergence Clubs: A Study of Post-Reform Indian States
- Ray, Saon and Kar, Sabyasachi (2020) Kuznets’ tension in India: Two episodes WIDER Working Paper 2020/24. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER
- Sabyasachi, Kar (2018) Unmaking "Make in India": Weak Governance, Good Deals, and their Economic Impact
- Sen, Kunal and Kar, Sabyasachi (2014) Boom and Bust? A Political Economy Reading of India's Growth Experience
- Kar, Sabyasachi Looking for a Break: Identifying transitions in growth regimes
- Kar, Sabyasachi Reexamining the FinanceGrowth Relationship for a Developing Economy: A time series analysis of post-reform India
- Kar, Sabyasachi Club-Convergence and Polarisation of States: A Nonparametric Analysis of Post-Reform India
- Kar, Sabyasachi Inequalities of Income Opportunity in a Hilly State: A Study of Uttarakhand
- Kar, Sabyasachi Inclusive Growth in Hilly Regions: Priorities for the Uttarakhand Economy
- Kar, Sabyasachi Shocks, Economy Growth and the Indian Economy
- Kar, Sabyasachi Regional Divergence in India During the Era of Liberalisation: A Sectoral Decomposition
- Kar, Sabyasachi Forecasting of State Domestic Product Through Macroeconometric Model: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh
- Kar, Sabyasachi Short and Medium-Run Growth and Stability : A Macro-econometric Analysis and Forecasts for India
