Introduction
January 27th, 2011
Pulapre Balakrishnan is an applied economist. His published work spans the inflationary process in the Indian economy, productivity growth in manufacturing, the macroeconomics of the transition to a market economy in Ukraine, agricultural evolution in Kerala and economic growth in India. He has held appointments at the University of Oxford, the Indian Statistical Institute, the World Bank at Washington and the Indian Institute of Management at Kozhikode. Balakrishnan has served as consultant to the International Labour Organisation, the Reserve Bank of India and the United Nations Development Program. He is currently Professor of Economics, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.