Title Dr First Name Pradip Kumar Last Name Biswas Photograph Designation Associate Professor
Address A 141/403 Shalimar
Garden Ext.2, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, U.P.
201005
Phone No Office 1129258544
Residence 9313032388
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Educational Qualifications
Degree Institution Year
M.Sc. in
Economics Calcutta University
1984-‐86
M.Phil. in
Economics CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University
1987-‐89, awarded in 1990
Ph.D. in
Economics CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Submitted in 1997 and awarded in 1999
Post Doctoral CETRAD, University of Trás-‐os-‐Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal
2009-‐10
Career Profile
i. 27 years of teaching and research at College of Vocational Studies, Delhi University, New Delhi, since 1990: Lecturer 1990-97; Senior Lecturer 1997-99;
Reader 1999-2006; Associate Professor since 2006 till date.
ii. 2 years as Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-NISTADS during 2011-13, of which last one year as Professor, AcSIR, New Delhi.
iii. 1 year as Post-Doctoral Fellow, CETRAD, UTAD, Portugal during 2009-10.
Administrative Assignments
Various assignments like Teacher-in-Charge of the Department of Economics, Deputy Superintendent of Examination, Member of the GB, convener or member of various committees given to me from time to time by the college
Areas of Interest / Specialization
Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-‐site
Development economics, environmental economics, Indian economics, health economics, MSMEs, agricultural economics
Subjects Taught
Development economics, environmental economics, Indian economics, economics of health and education, econometrics, applied econometrics, mathematical methods for economics, statistics
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Research Guidance
Publications Profile Books
1. Pradip Kumar Biswas, Rural Industrialisation in West Bengal: Institutions, Innovations and Growth, Manak Publishers, New Delhi, 2003.
2. Parthasarathi Banerjee, Sujit Bhattacharya, Pradip Kumar Biswas, Naresh Kumar, Vipan Kumar, Kasturi Mandal, Kavita Mehra, Sanjib Pohit, Rajeswari S. Raina and Yogesh Suman (in alphabetical order), (eds.) India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi, 2015, ISBN: 978-93-84463-045.
3. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Panchanan Das (eds.) Indian Economy: Reforms and Development - Essays in Honour of Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Springer, Singapore, ISBN:
978-981-13-8268-0.
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811382680
Articles and Papers in Journals, Edited Books and Conference Proceedings 1. Pradip Kumar Biswas (2019) “Growth Characteristics of the Unorganised Sector in India in the Post-Reform Era” in Biswas, P.K. and Das, P. (eds.), Indian Economy:
Reforms and Development, Springer, Singapore.
2. Sanjib Pohit and Pradip Biswas (2017) “India’s Biodiesel Programme: Status, Prospects, and Shortcomings”, in Chandel, Anuj K., Sukumaran, Rajeev K. (eds.) Sustainable Biofuels Development in India, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-50217-5, pp.247- 259.
3. Sanjib Pohit, Pradip Kumar Biswas and Sunil Ashra, “Incentive structure of India’s biofuel programs: status, shortcomings and implications”, Biofuels, 2(3), 2011.
4. Sanjib Pohit, Pradip Kumar Biswas, Rajesh Kumar and Anandajit Goswami, “Pricing model for biodiesel feedstock: A case study of Chhattisgarh in India”, Energy Policy, 38 (2010) 7487–7496.
5. Pradip Kumar Biswas, Sanjib Pohit and Rajesh Kumar, “Biodiesel from Jatropha: Can India meet the 20% blending target?”, Energy Policy, 38 (2010) 1477–1484
6. Sanjib Pohit, Pradip Kumar Biswas, Rajesh Kumar, Jaya Jha, “International experiences of ethanol as transport fuel: Policy implications for India”, Energy Policy, 37 (2009) 4540–4548.
7. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Alberto Moreira Baptista, “Institutions and Micro-enterprises Demography: A Study of Selected EU Countries, 1997-2006”, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2012, pp. 283–306.
8. Pradip Kumar Biswas “Networks of small enterprises, architecture of governance and incentive alignment: some cases from India,” AI & Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2011.
9. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Emergence of Women Entrepreneurs in India in the 2000s: A Case of Inclusive Growth”, in Bailey, Greg, Manoj Kumar Sanyal and David Templeman (eds.) Religion, Caste, Tribe and Gender: Essays on Society, Culture and Development in India, Manak Publishers, New Delhi, 2017.
10. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Systems of Education, Training and Skill Formation: How Relevant for Small Enterprises?” in Keshab Das (ed.) Micro and Small Enterprises in India:
The Era of Reforms, Routledge, India, 2010.
11. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Indigenous Systems of Organizations and the Development of MSMEs in India”, The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Volume 12(2), 2007 ISSN 1715-3816.
12. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Organizational Forms, Technological Change and Income Generation: Handloom and Conch Shell Product Clusters in West Bengal”, in Keshab Das (ed.), Indian Industrial Clusters, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK. 2005.
13. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Sanjib Pohit, “Present Structure of Indian Enterprises”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi.
14. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Sanjib Pohit, “Performance of Informal sectors”, in CSIR- NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
15. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Jaideep Ghosh, “Demography, Start Up and Evolution of Informal Sector Enterprises”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
16. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Parthasarathi Banerjee, “Changes in the Pattern of Employment and Labour Productivity in the Informal Sector”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
17. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Indranil Biswas, “Sources of Finance and Productivity – A Study of Unorganised Manufacturing in India”, Productivity, Vol. 50, No. 2, Sept. 2009.
18. Pradip Kumar Biswas, Jaideep Ghosh, Sanjib Pohit and Anindya Chaudhuri, “Informal Sector Financing: Regional and Sectoral Pattern, Adequacy and Linkages with Growth and Startups”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
19. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Level of ICT Uses by Informal Sector Enterprises”, in CSIR- NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
20. Pradip Kumar Biswas, Jaideep Ghosh and Sanjib Pohit, “Nature and Types of Business links and Their Relation to Technology Up-Gradation and Productivity Growth of Informal Sector”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
21. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Training, education and skill development for rural non-farm sector employment” , India - Science and Technology: 2010-11, CSIR-NISTADS, April 2012, http://www.nistads.res.in/indiasnt2010-11/index_India_S&T_2010-11.php
22. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “A Classificatory Scheme of Technological Innovations in Rural Industries”, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, Vol. 60, No.3. March 2001, pp.232-242. ISSN:0975-1084 (Online); 0022-4456 (Print)
23. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Surplus Yield and Production Structure: The Case of Small- Scale Rural Industries in West Bengal”, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2., January 2001, pp. 119-145. ISSN 0306 6150
24. Pradip Kumar Biswas, "Technological Change and Forms of Production Organisation: A Case Study of Handloom and Conch Shell Product Industries in West Bengal”, Margin, Vol. 30, No.2, 1998, pp. 55-76. (ISBN - 81 - 85877 -73 -4).
25. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Ashok Raj, “Skill Formation in the Indigenous Institutions:
Cases from India”, in Parthasarathi Banerjee and Yoshihiro Sato (eds.) Skill and Technological Change: Society and Institutions in International Perspective, Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 1996.
26. Pradip Kumar Biswas, Binu Kumar, Kasturi Mandal (2014) “S&T Components of FDI: A
Comparison Across Bricks Countries”, in Kasturi Mandal, Nadia Asheulova and Svetlana G.
Kirdina (eds.) Socio Economic and Technological Innovations: Mechanism and Institutions, Narosa Publishing, New Delhi.
27. Sanjib Pohit and Pradip Biswas, (2016) “FDI in R&D in India: An Introspection”, Turkish Economic Review, Vol 3. No.3.
28. Sanjib Pohit and Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Firms’ R&D Expenditure in India”, in CSIR- NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
29. Sanjib Pohit and Pradip Kumar Biswas, “MNC’s R&D Expenditure in India”, in CSIR- NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
30. Sanjib Pohit, Pradip Kumar Biswas and Avinash Kshitij, “Collaborative pattern in R&D between public and private sector”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
31. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Corporate Retailing in the Advanced Countries: Some Salient Features”, in Das, Mausumi, Sabyasachi Kar and Nandan Nawn (eds.) Economic challenges for the contemporary world: essays in honour of Prabhat Patnaik, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2016.
32. Sanjib Pohit and Pradip Kumar Biswas, “ Facets of Growth in Indian Listed Companies” in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
33. Pradip Kumar Biswas, Kanika Malhotra and Arundhati Choudhury,” Problem of Sickness and Closure and Age Distribution among the Registered Manufacturing Industries”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
34. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “ Exports, Imports and Contracting of Registered Manufacturing Units (2009-10)”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
35. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Raj Kumar, “Asset Composition, Technology Categories of the Enterprises and Estimates of Skilled Workforce”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India:
Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
36. Sanjib Pohit and Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Trends in Process Innovation, Skill Development in Indian Listed Companies”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
37. Sanjib Pohit and Pradip Kumar Biswas, “S&T and Industry: Introduction, in CSIR- NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
38. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Nutrient Mismanagement and Degradation of Soil: Some Implications on Deceleration of Foodgrain Production in Indian”, in M. S. Bhatt, Shahid
Ashraf and Asheref Illiyan, (eds.) Problems and Prospects of Environment Policy: An Indian Perspective, Aakar Publihsers, New Delhi, 2008.
39. Francisco Diniz and Pradip Biswas, “Innovations in Agriculture and Manufacturing in selected EU Countries: A Study Based on Input-Output Tables”, Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2012, pp.1-21.
40. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Alberto Moreira Baptista, “Growth of ICT Capital and Deceleration of Labour Productivity in the EU Countries: The Missing Links”, Computer and Information Science; Vol. 5, No. 5, 2012, pp.55-68.
41. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Sanjib Pohit, “Machine Tools Industry of India”, India - Science and Technology: 2010-11, CSIR-NISTADS, April 2012,
http://www.nistads.res.in/indiasnt2010-11/index_India_S&T_2010-11.php
42. Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Recent Trend in Technology Upgradation in the Indian Textile Industry – Need for S&T Intervention”, India - Science and Technology: 2008, http://www.nistads.res.in/indiasnt2008/t4industry/t4ind11.htm
43. Panchanan Das, Byasdeb Dasgupta and Pradip Kumar Biswas, “Gender and Labour:
The Post-Reform Scenario in India”, in Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Mandira Sanyal and Sahina Amin (eds.) Post-Reform Development in Asia: Essays for Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad, India, 2008.
44. Hardip Grewal, Biswatosh Saha, Pradip Biswas, P Banerjee, “Mentha: an innovation success story”, in CSIR-NISTADS (2015), India: Science and Technology Volume 3, CUP, New Delhi
45. Pradip Biswas and A Baptista, “Quality Differentiation as a Strategy for the Viability of Traditional Olive Farming in Trás-os-Montes Region” PAPER PREPARED FOR THE 116TH EAAE SEMINAR Spatial Dynamics in Agri-food Systems: Implications for Sustainability and Consumer Welfare, Parma (Italy), October 27th -30th, 2010.
46. Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Pradip Kumar Biswas and Samaresh Bardhan, “Institutional Change and Output Growth in West Bengal Agriculture”, Economic and Political Weekly, (Special Issue on West Bengal Economy), Vol. 33, Nos. 47 and 48, Nov. 21-27/28-Dec. 4, 1998, pp. 2979-2986.
47. Saurabh Bandyopadhyay and Pradip Kumar Biswas, “India Emerging as Economic Superpower: An Alternative Approach”, The Indian Economic Journal, Vol. 53, No. 2, July- September, 2005, pp.57-70.
48. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Ashis Taru Deb, “Determinants of NPAs in the Indian Public Sector Banks: A Critique of Policy Reforms”, The IUP Journal of Bank Management, IUP Publications, vol. 0(3), 2014, pp.11-41.
Selected Reports:
1. Private Sector Investment Opportunities in Indian R&D, Submitted to British High Commission, 2012 (Co-authored).
2. Corporate Retailing and SMEs in France, Other EU Countries, US and Japan: Some Lessons for India, Submitted to ICSSR, India and Fondation Maison Des Sciences De L’Homme (FMSH), Paris.2009.
3. Impacts of Futures Markets of Potato and Mentha oil on the Commodity Ecosystem, Submitted to MCX, Mumbai, 2012 (co-authored).
4. Analysis of MSME Sector: Opportunity, Policy Gaps and Action Report, (NISTADS) submitted at CSIR-NISTADS, 2014 (co-authored).
http://www.nistads.res.in/images/ISTIP/report/ReportMSME.pdf
5. Industry Structure and the pattern of innovation: Basic Metal Industry of India, CSIR-NISTADS, 2014 (Co-authored).
http://www.nistads.res.in/images/ISTIP/report/report_istip_basicmetals.pdf
6. Industry Structure and the pattern of innovation: Chemical Industry of India, 2000 to 2010, CSIR-NISTADS, 2014. (Co-authored).
http://www.nistads.res.in/images/ISTIP/report/Report_ISTIP_chemicals.pdf
7. Industry Structure and the pattern of innovation: Pharmaceutical Industry of India, 2000 -2010, CSIR-NISTADS, 2014 (Co-authored).
http://www.nistads.res.in/images/ISTIP/report/Report-Pharmaceuticals.pdf
8. Performance of Indian Food Products Industry: A Study of Structure, Innovation and Growth, 2000 – 2010, CSIR-NISTADS, 2015 (Co-authored).
http://www.nistads.res.in/images/ISTIP/report/food%20products.pdf
9. Appraisal of the State public finance management and formulating policies in the State of Chhattisgarh, submitted to European Commission and Chhattisgarh Government(Co-authored) 2006.
Publications in the Last one year
1. Pradip Kumar Biswas and Panchanan Das (eds.) Indian Economy: Reforms and Development - Essays in Honour of Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Springer, Singapore, ISBN:
978-981-13-8268-0.
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811382680
2. Pradip Kumar Biswas “Growth Characteristics of the Unorganised Sector in India in the Post-Reform Era” in (Eds.) Biswas and Das (2019),
Indian Economy: Reforms and Development - Essays in Honour of Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Springer, Singapore.Conference Organization/ Presentations (in the last three years)
Seminar Organised:
Organised one day national workshop on Indian Economy: Reforms and Development, on July 6th, 2018, at the Department of Economics, University of Calcutta (collaborator Professor Panchanan Das, Department of Economics, Calcutta University).
Paper presented:
1. “Non-‐Conventional Energy, Equity and Sustainability: Indian Experience”, presented at the seminar on Optimizing Employment in the Emerging Scenario at Dr Giri Lal Gupta Institute of Public Health, University of Lucknow, on 27th March 2019.
2. “Declining trend of non-‐agricultural informal sector employment: some policy recommendations”, presented at the National Symposium on Policy Interventions for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development, held at Haryana Bhawan, New Delhi on 7-‐8 August 2018.
3. “Growth Characteristics of the Unorganised Sector in India in the Post-‐Reform Era”, presented at the national workshop on Indian Economy: Reforms and Development, held on July 6th, 2018, at the Department of Economics, University of Calcutta.
Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration)
1. Private Sector Investment Opportunities in Indian R&D, Sponsored by the British High Commission, 2012, Sanctioned and receive fund Rs 486250, done at CSIR-NISTADS (Major Project).
2. Impacts of Futures Markets of Potato and Menthaoil on the Commodity Ecosystem, Sponsored by MCX, 2013, sanctioned and received fund Rs 1250000, jointly done at CSIR- NISTADS and IIMC (Major Project)
Awards and Distinctions
1. ICSSR, India and Fondation Maison Des Sciences De L’Homme (FMSH), Paris Fellowship for field work in France in 2009.
Five years Post-Doctoral Fellowship jointly awarded by the European Commission
and Portugal Government in 2009.
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