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Professor Kunal Sen awarded Pathfinder Research Grant from the ESRC
Professor Kunal Sen of IDPM (and Professorial Fellow, BWPI) has been awarded a prestigious Pathfinder Research Grant from the ESRC, with two co-investigators based in India, Dr Vinish Kathuria of IIT-Mumbai and Dr Rajesh Raj Natarajan of CMDR, Dharwad.
Pathfinder Research Projects are aimed at supporting the ESRC in pursuit of its international agenda by broadening the outreach of the Council in strengthening international research networks, joining social scientists in Brazil and India with UK counterparts; and helping in building capacity in quantitative methods in the social sciences within Brazil and India.
The specific objective of Professor Sen’s research grant is to understand the micro-foundations of pro-poor growth by examining how economic restructuring has affected the performance of manufacturing firms in India, especially those based in the informal sector, using state-of-the-art econometric methodologies.
As part of the communications strategy, a network will be created among academics, statistical agencies and policy makers in the UK, India and other countries in the production and analysis of firm-level data, with the specific objectives of improving the quality of firm level data and to contribute to the making of evidence based policies in the areas of industrial and regulatory economics in developing economies. An international conference on the micro-foundations of pro-poor growth in developing countries is planned in Mumbai in April 2011.
04 January 2010