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I am currently a PhD Candidate at department of Economics, University of British Columbia. I am expecting to finish the program in July 2009. My PhD research is focussed on analysing 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 work part-time as program officer at School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University. I am 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.

I am in the job market this year. I am looking for a work environment where I can contribute in worthwhile and interesting research with useful implications, in addition to disseminating the economics-knowledge especially in the field of Technological Change and Macroeconomic Growth.

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