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Deepak Nayyar is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Earlier, he taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has also served as Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi.

He was Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, New York, and the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the United States Library of Congress, Washington DC.

Professor Nayyar is Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, in Britain, and was Chairman of the Board of the World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki.

His professional life in academia has been interspersed with time in the world of public policy, as Economic Adviser, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, and later as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary in the Ministry of Finance.

He was educated at St. Stephen’s College and the Delhi School of Economics.  Thereafter, as a Rhodes Scholar, he went on to study at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he obtained a B. Phil and a D. Phil in Economics.

 

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International Economics

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Development Economics

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Macroeconomics

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Political Economy

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Economic History

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Research Themes

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Trade theory, trade policies, economic openness

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Evolution of the world economy

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Globalization, history and development

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International migration, international finance, multilateral trading system

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Macro policies, macroeconomic stabilization, structural adjustment

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Industrialization strategies, industrial policy, economic liberalization and development

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Political economy of development in India and Asia

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Economic growth, employment and human development

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