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I live in New York City working as an economist at The Conference Board. I monitor economic trends especially those in emerging markets and do productivity research. I am also involved in generating estimates of "intangibles" i.e. non-physical capital assets which include research and development knowledge, brand equity etc.
I did my PhD at department of Economics, University of British Columbia in July 2009. My PhD research is focused on analyzing economic growth in India. I find that economic growth in India is largely due to productivity growth, which is a good news because unlike capital accumulation based growth (experienced by Asian Tigers) it is not going to reach diminishing return.
I also worked part-time as program officer at School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University. I was part of Human Security Research Group which publishes Human Security Brief and Report.
I completed my BTech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India in 1999. My major was in Chemical Engineering and I worked on designing an intelligent system for separation synthesis sequencing and remote management of pipe-line network.
After my graduation I worked in Information Technology industry for 4 years before restarting my graduate studies in Economics. In my IT career, I worked in India (Mumbai, Bangalore) and San-Francisco area. My client-projects have included start-ups as well as Fortune-500 companies. I used internet technologies including Java, J2EE, Oracle, Weblogic etc. to create products and solutions which are implemented in Banking, Supply Chain Management, Data Centers and US Government departments.
I did my MA in Economics from Lakehead University in 2004. My thesis was on transmission of monetary policy and bank lending channel. I compare the presence of Bank Lending channel in India and Pakistan using data from International Finance Statistics and respective Central Banks.
During graduate studies at UBC, I have also TAed many economics courses both at first year and at upper year levels. These include Introductory Macro and Micro, Econometrics, Trade, Industrial Organization, Cost Benefit Analysis, Globalization, Money and Banking, Government Regulation of Business.
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