Institute of Economic Growth University Enclave University of Delhi (North Campus) Delhi 110007 Ph: +91-11-27662404 (Ext-203) SAMIK CHOWDHURY Email: samik141@gmail.com, samik@iegindia.org Professional Post-PhD May 2013 onwards -- March 2012 to April 2013 -- Assistant Professor Assistant Professor, Economics and Finance Institute of Economic Growth (IEG),Delhi Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India Sep 2009 to Feb 2012 -- Consultant National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India Academic 2010, PhD in Economics from Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Title of Thesis -- The Economic Burden of Health Care Spending by Urban Households in India. 2004, M Phil in Economics from Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Title of Dissertation Construction of Human Development Index Some Methodological Issues. 2001, M.Sc in Economics from the University of Calcutta 1999, B.Sc with Economics from the University of Calcutta Research Ongoing November 2015 onwards - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded project on Fiscal Restructuring and its Implications on Health Sector: An Analysis of State Budgets (Duration: 3 years) May 2013 onwards - Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) funded project on Universal Health Coverage in India, at IEG, Delhi (Duration: 4 years)
Completed 2015-16, Assessment of Central Government Health Scheme, WHO India Country Office. 2014-15, Health Financing chapter for the National Health Profile 2015, Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI), and WHO India Country Office. 2013-14, Core Health Package for India: Approaches and Alternatives, XIV th Finance Commission 2013-14, Paper for the India Infrastructure Report 2013-14 on the Road to Universal Health Coverage, Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC). 2013-14, Health Equity in Nepal, South East Asian Regional Office (SEARO), WHO. 2013-14, Assessing Progressivity in Health Financing System of India, International Development Research Centre (IDRC). 2013-14, Economic Burden of Vector Borne Diseases in India, SEARO, WHO 2011-2012, "Program on Indian Economic Policies: Free Trade, Democracy and Entrepreneurial Development, Columbia University - NIPFP. 2009-2011, Indian Municipal Finance Study. Asian Development Bank. Courses Taught Development Economics, Public Finance, Economic Environment of Business, Principles of Economics to Integrated MSc (Economics) students of BITS Pilani. Publications Journal Article Out-of-Pocket Spending on Out-Patient Care in India: Assessment and Options Based on Results from a District Level Survey (with I Gupta, S Prinja and M Trivedi), PLoS One, 11(11), November 2016, pp 1-12. Governance Performance of Indian States: Changes between 2001-02 and 2011-12 (with S. Mundle and S.Sikdar), (Special Article), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 51, No. 36, September 3, 2016, pp 55-64. Public Retreat, Private Expenses and Penury A Study of Illness Induced Impoverishment in Urban India, Journal of Developing Societies. Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2015, Sage Journals. Correlates of Out-of-Pocket Spending in Nepal: Implications for Policy, (with I.Gupta), WHO South East Asia Journal of Public Health. Volume 3, Issue 3-4, Jul - Dec 2014. Public financing for health coverage in India: Who spends, who benefits and at what cost (with I. Gupta), (Special Article), Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 49, Issue No.35, August 30, 2014.
Economic Burden of Malaria in India: Need for Effective Spending (with I. Gupta), WHO South East Asia Journal of Public Health, Vol 3 (1), January-March 2014. The Quality of Governance: How Have Indian States Performed? (with S. Mundle, P. Chakraborty and S.Sikdar), (Special Article), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 47, No. 49, December 8, 2012, pp 41-52 "Financial Burden of Transient morbidity-a Case Study of Slums in Delhi", (Special Article), August 13, 2011, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 46, No. 33, pp 59-66, 2011. Book Chapter Urban Concerns and their Impact on Health in India, (with I. Gupta) in Policy Challenges from Demographic Change in China and India by Karen Eggleston, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2016. Stanford University, USA. Scaling up Health Expenditure for Universal Health Coverage: Prospects and Challenges (with I. Gupta), Chapter in India Infrastructure Report 2013 14, IDFC Foundation. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, September 2014. Elementary Education: Outcomes and Policies (with P Chakraborty) in State Level Reforms, Growth, and Development in Indian States by A. Panagariya, P. Chakraborty and M. G. Rao. May 2014, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780199367863. Higher Education: Progress and Prospects (with P Chakraborty) in State Level Reforms, Growth, and Development in Indian States by A. Panagariya, P. Chakraborty and M. G. Rao.May 2014, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780199367863. Working Paper Governance Performance of Indian States: 2001-02 and 2011-12 (with S Mundle and S Sikdar). NIPFP Working Paper No. 164. National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. March, 2016. Finances for Health in India: Are New Sources the Way to Go? (with I Gupta). IEG Working Paper No. 356. Institute of Economic Growth, 2015. Financing for Health Coverage in India Issues and Concerns (with I Gupta). IEG Working Paper No. 346. Institute of Economic Growth, 2015. The Quality of Governance - How Have Indian States Performed? (with S.Mundle, P. Chakraborty and S. Sikdar), NIPFP Working Paper No. 2012-104, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), 2012. "An Exploratory Analysis of Deprivation and Ill-health led Poverty in Urban India: A Case Study of Delhi", (with A. K. Mehta, S. Ghosh and S. Das), Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC-India) Working Paper 49, 2011
Report Health Financing chapter of the National Health Profile, 2015 (with I Gupta). Central Bureau of Health Intelligence, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India. Core Health Package for India: Approaches and Alternatives (with I. Gupta and N. Patra), XIV th Finance Commission, Government of India, September, 2014. "Municipal Finance Matters" (with O. P. Mathur, D. Thakur, and A. K. Halen), Technical Assistance Report 7334 IND, Asian Development Bank, August 2011 "The Budget: A Gender and Poverty Sensitive Perspective" (with A. K. Mehta and S.Baishya), National Commission for Women (NCW), Government of India, 2004. Other Development as a measure of governance (with S. Mundle and S. Sikdar). Business Standard. 15 th December, 2016. Available at http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/development-as-ameasure-of-governance-116121501468_1.html Governance performance of Indian states: 2001-02 and 2011-12 (with S. Mundle and S. Sikdar). Ideas for India. 13 th December 2016. Available at http://ideasforindia.in/article.aspx?article_id=1742 Inputs and outputs: health, education and development. TeacherPlus, May-June 2016. Available at http://www.teacherplus.org/2016/may-june-2016/inputs-and-outputs-health-education-anddevelopment Public spending on health coverage: Are we raising the right questions? (with I Gupta). Ideas for India, 13 th February 2015. Available at http://www.ideasforindia.in/article.aspx?article_id=411 Conference/Workshop Presentation International Conference/Workshop Presentation April 20-24, 2015: Regional Capacity Building Workshop on One Health Tool for costing of newborn action plans organized by UNICEF and WHO. Kathmandu, Nepal. August 24-30, 2014: 33 rd General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), Rotterdam, The Netherlands May 24-25, 2014: Conference on Urbanization and Demographic Change in China and India, organized by APARC, Stanford Centre at Peking University, Beijing, China April 20-21, 2014: Workshop on Moving towards Universal Health Coverage in Nepal, jointly organized by Government of Nepal and SEARO-WHO at Kathmandu, Nepal.
June 14th-18th, 2012: 13th Global Development Network (GDN) Annual Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. March 10-12, 2011: International Workshop on Health Risks & Vulnerability to Poverty in South Asia jointly organized by the University of Hyderabad and Concordia university, Canada at Hyderabad. November1-4, 2010: 8th International GLOBELICS Conference held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. May 26th June 9th, 2005: Visiting Fellow in the Program on Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. National Conference/Workshop Presentation August 3-4, 2016: Conference on Key Findings from NSSO Surveys for Health at The Lalit, New Delhi jointly organized by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Health System Resource Centre, BMGF and WHO. March 9-10, 2016: 2 nd Annual Public Health Symposium on Universal Health Coverage organized by School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh December 15-16, 2014. Seminar on Economy of Tomorrow organized by Institute of Economic Growth in collaboration with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung September 8-12, 2014: Workshop on National Health Mission: Achievements and Challenges, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi March 16-17, 2011: Papers in Public Economics (PIPE) Conference at National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi December 16-18, 2009: Fifth Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi January 24-25, 2009: National Conference on Challenges in Human Development in India held at Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala October 17-20, 2008: 30th Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) Conference held at Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore. January 5-8, 2006:The 42nd Indian Econometric Society Conference, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar January 20-22, 2005:The 41st Indian Econometric Society Conference, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Lecture/Talk September 21, 2016: Seminar at the Centre for International Trade and Development, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
August 18, 2016: Training Programme for Indian Economic Services Promotee Officers at Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. May 5, 2016: Orientation workshop on Rural Livelihoods and Well Being for research scholars at Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. December 17, 2015. Certificate Programme on Emerging Challenges in Public Policy for the Officers of the Comptroller and Auditor General, Government of India at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. January 29, 2015. Training Programme on Public Finance and Budgeting to Orissa Administrative Service Officers at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. Journal Review PLoS One, Arthaniti Award/Recognition Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) international travel grant for attending the 33rd General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), Rotterdam, The Netherlands. August 24-30, 2014. Finalist for the Global Development Network (GDN) award on Research on Development, 13th GDN Annual Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. June 14th-18th, 2012. Dr. S. N. Singh Award for best poster of the 30th Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) Conference held at Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru. October 17-20, 2008. Ford Foundation fellowship for attending the program on Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, May 26th June 9th, 2005