• Public Finance
• Theory of Income Distribution
• Theory of Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
• Development Economics
• Inequality, Poverty and Development
• Agriculture and Development, Including Problems of Rural-Urban Migration and Commodity Price Stabilization 
• Macroeconomic Stabilization and Structural Adjustment
• Aid Policy, Global Public Goods and Development
• Geographical Areas of Personal Interest and Research: (i) Asia: India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka (ii) Africa: Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana (iii) Latin America: Brazil

• D. Phil., University of Oxford, 1981
• B.A., University of Cambridge, 1975

Volumes and journal special issues

• Market Development and Inequality in China (Co-Editor with Y. Qian and X. Zhang). Special Issue of Economics of Transition, 2008.
• Private Provision of Public Goods (Co-Editor with J. Andreoni). Special Issue of Journal of Public Economics, 2007.
• Membership Based Organizations of the Poor (Co-Editor with M. Chen, R. Jhabvala and C. Richards), Routledge, 2007.
• Governance and Development in Karnataka (Co-Editor with G. Kadekodi and V. Rao). Special Issue of Economic and Political Weekly, 2007.
• Experiences of Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis (Co-Editor with D. Shaffer). Special Issue of World Development, 2007.
• Poverty, Trade and Growth in Africa (Co-Editor with Haroon Bhorat and Stephen Hanival), Special Issue of Journal of African Economies, 2006.
• Shared Growth in Africa (Co-Editor with Ernest Aryeety and John Page), Special Issue of African Development Review, 2006.

Articles

• “And Never the Twain Shall Meet? An Exchange on the Strengths and Weaknesses of Anthropology and Economics in Analyzing the Commons,” (with A. Riles), in P. Bardhan and I. Ray (eds.) The Contested Commons: Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists, Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
  
• “Male Wages and Female Welfare: Private Markets, Public Goods, and Intrahousehold Inequality,” (with S. Ghosh), Oxford Economic Papers, 2008.
• “Community and Class Antagonism,” (with I. Dasgupta), Journal of Public Economics, 2007.
• “Premature Mortality and Poverty Measurement,” (with D. Mukherjee), Bulletin of Economic Research, 2007.
• “Poverty, Relative to the Ability to Eradicate It: An Index of Poverty Reduction Failure” (with D. Mukherjee), Economics Letters, 2007.
• “What’s Social Policy Got To Do with Economic Growth?” Indian Journal of Human Development, 2007.
• “A Framework for Scaling Up Poverty Reduction,” (with S. Devarajan) in D. Narayan and E. Glinskaya (eds.), Finding Poverty in South Asia: Ideas That Work, World Bank, Washington, DC, 2007.
• “Membership Based Organizations of the Poor: Concepts, Experience and Policy,” (with M. Chen, R. Jhabvala and C. Richards). In M. Chen, R. Jhabvala, R. Kanbur and C. Richards (eds.), Membership Based Organizations of the Poor, Routledge, 2007.
• “Governance and the Karnataka Model of Development,” (with G. Kadekodi and V. Rao), Economic and Political Weekly, 2007.
• “Epistemology, Normative Theory and Poverty Analysis: Implications for Q-Squared in Practice,” (with P. Shaffer), World Development, 2007.
• “Comparing the Evolution of Spatial Inequality in China and India: A Fifty-Year Perspective,” (with K. Gajwani and X. Zhang), Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2007.
• “Spatial Disparities and Economic Development,” (with A.J. Venables) in D. Held and A. Kaya (eds.) Global Inequality, Polity Press, 2007.