Dr Homagni Choudhury

Undergraduate courses taught

• Business Economics BSc (Hons)
• Economics BSc (Hons)
• Financial Economics BSc (Hons)

Postgraduate courses taught

• Development and International Economics MA

Awards, Grants and Funding

• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Value for Money - Assessing the Economic Impact of BBSRC investments between April 2008 and March 2013: £65,000, Principal Investigator, Jan -Aug 2014.
• British Academy, A cross-country examination of supply chain barriers on market access for small and medium firms in India and the UK: £29,550), Researcher, 2013-16.   
•  Aberystwyth University Research Fund, De Jure versus de facto labour reforms in India: Assessing the need for and the way ahead with de jure reforms to improve labour market outcomes in India: £4,394, Principal Investigator, 2014-15.
•  Young Scholar Grant, Networking and mobility grant instituted by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and housed at ICRIER (New Delhi): £4,790, 2014

Publications

 A. Journal Articles

• Simulation Evidence on the properties of Alternative Measures of Working Capital Accruals: Evidence from the  UK, (with J. Izadi and N. Alireza), International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, (Accepted - forthcoming in Volume 26, No. 2)
•  Role Model or Institutional Spoiler?: India's Schizophrenic Relationship with the WTO, (with S. Khorana and William A. Kerr), Current Politics And Economics of South, Southeastern, and Central Asia, Volume 23, Nos. 3-4 (Jul 2014), pp 247-268.
•  Liberalisation and the Changing Inter-Industry Wage Structure of the Organised Manufacturing Sector in India, 1973-74 to 2003-04, (with M. Chatterji), Review of Development Economics, Volume 17, No. 2 (May 2013), pp 365-378.
•  Trade Barriers faced by Developing countries' Agricultural Processed products exports, (with S. Mohan and S. Khorana), Economic Affairs, Volume 33, No. 1 (Jan 2013), pp 48-64.

B. Discussion/Working Papers

• Law, Skills and the Creation of Jobs as 'Contract' Work in India: Exploring Survey Data to make Inferences for Labour Law Reform, with (J Singh, D K Das and P Kukreja), ICRIER Working Paper No. 330, ICRIER, New Delhi (India), Sep 2016.
• Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and Labour Market Flexibility: An Exploratory Assessment of Contract Labour use in India's Formal Manufacturing, with (D K Das and J Singh), ICRIER Working Paper No. 300, ICRIER, New Delhi (India), June 2015.
• Barriers to Prosperity: Developing Countries and the need for Trade Liberalisation, (with S. Mohan and S. Khorana), IEA Discussion Paper No. 44, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, Nov 2012.
• Growth Rate Estimation in the Presence of Unit Roots, with (M. Chatterji), Dundee Discussion Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 245, University of Dundee, Oct 2010.
• The Changing Inter-Industry Wage Structure of the Organised Manufacturing Sector in India, 1973-74 to 2003-04, with (M. Chatterji), Dundee Discussion Paper in Economics, Working Paper No. 244, University of Dundee, Oct 2010.

C. Book and Book Chapters

• What do we know about Productivity in Arab economies- The Challenges of Generating Multifactor Productivity (MFP) Estimates at Industry Level, with (D K Das), in Productivity Dynamics in Emerging and Advanced Economies, edited volume, edited by D K Das, Routledge (forthcoming in 2018 - ACCEPTED)
• Regulation and Employment in India, with (D K Das and J Singh), in Employment Policy in Emerging Economies: The Indian Case, edited volume, edited by A. Palit and E. Hill, Routledge (forthcoming in 2017 - in PRESS)
• Trade Reforms and Performance in Indian Manufacturing, Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken (Germany), Nov 2010, ISBN: 978-3-8433-5454-7

D. Reports

• An evaluation to assess the implementation of NHS delivered Alcohol Brief Interventions: Final Report, with (T. Parkes, I. Atherton, J. Evans, S. Gloyn, S. McGhee, B. Stoddart, D. Eadie, S. Bryce, O. Brooks, S. MacAskill and D. Petrie, NHS Health Scotland: http://www.healthscotland.com/documents/5438.aspx

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