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Pundarik Mukhopadhaya

Pundarik Mukhopadhaya

Formal Name: Pundarik Mukhopadhaya

Personal Title: Dr

Position: Senior Lecturer

Organisational Unit: Department of Economics

Qualifications: BEc (Hon) India, MEc India, PhD NSW

Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-6476

Fax: (+61-2) 9850-6069

Email: pundarik@efs.mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 413

Research

Field of Research and Professional Interest

  • Income Distribution Analysis: Income Inequality and measurement aspects, Decomposition of Inequality Indices and Application (South, South East and East Asia, Australia, New Zealand).
  • Applied Policy Analysis: Policies related to development (rural and urban), population/ageing, migration, poverty, welfare and inequality. Human Capital development, linkages between education and inequality (South and South East Asia).
  • Applied Welfare Economics: Trade-offs between equity and efficiency, measurement of social welfare, Pareto Optimality, Decomposition of Social Welfare function (Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia), benefit-cost analysis.
  • Environmental Macroeconomics and Distribution of income: Internalization of environmental values in macroeconomic models, environmental policy modelling with a consideration of changing pattern of distribution of income (South East Asia).
  • Inequality and health economics: Dilemma of ability-to-pay and willingness-to-pay for healthcare in developing countries (South East Asia), relationship between economic inequality and health condition
  • Philosophy and Economics: Ethics, Distributive Justice, Concepts of fairness

Current Research Programs/Activities

  • Income distribution before and after crises in Indonesia
  • Gender Disparity in Income
  • World Bank's Grants and Development in Third World Countries
  • Regional Disparity in Australia: A Stochastic Dominance Analysis
  • Health, Inequality and Economic Development in East Asian Economies
  • Severance Pay in South and Southeast Asia

Publications

Journals and Books

  • "Earnings inequality" and "Income inequality" in the International Encyclopedia of Social Policy, (ed.) T. Fitzpatrick, N. Manning, G. Pascall, J. Midgely and H. Kwon, Routledge, London, New York. 2006
  • Income Disparity Trends and Data Problems in Singapore: Some Myths and Realities, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 17(4), 2006 (forthcoming)
  • "An Analysis of Severance Pay in India and Sri Lanka", (jointly with M. Asher) in Labour Market: Regulation and Deregulation in Asia (eds) Brassard, C and Acharya, S, Academic Foundation: New Delhi, 2006 (forthcoming)
  • "Crisis, Social Sector and Income Distribution in Singapore and Thailand", in Institutional Change in Southeast Asia (eds) F. Sjoholm and J Tongzon. 91-126. RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
  • "Taxation for Environmental Efficiency and Issues of Income Distribution", (jointly with J. Thampapillai, S. M. Thangavelu and E Quah), Chapter 5 (pp 85-96) in Ashiobar, H., Deketelaere, K., Kreiser, L. and Milne. J., Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: International and Comparative Perspectives - Volume II, Richmond Law and Tax, Richmond UK, 2005.
  • "World Income Inequality data base (WIID) Review", Journal of Economic Inequality, 2, 229-234, 2004
  • "Wage Policy and its Effect on the Social Sector in Singapore", Problems and Perspectives in Management, 3/2004, 103-110
  • "Trends in Total and Subgroup Inequality in Singaporean Work Force", Asian Economic Journal, 17:3, September, 2003, 243-264.
  • "Earning Inequality: The Singapore Case, 1974-98", Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, June 2003, Vol 8, No 2, 210-228 (with VV Rao and D S Banerjee)
  • "Trends in Income Disparity and Equality Enhancing (?) Education Policies in the Development Stages of Singapore", International Journal of Educational Development, 2003, 23, 37-56.
  • "The Ordinal and Cardinal Judgment of Social Welfare Changes in Singapore, 1982-99", The Developing Economies, XLI, 1, March 2003, 65-87.
  • "A Generalized Social Welfare Function and its Disaggregation by Components of Income: The Method and Application", Research on Economic Inequality, 2003, Vol 9, 245-264.
  • "Equity, Efficiency and Social Welfare: An Application of Generalised Lorenz Dominance to New Zealand Incomes Data", Research on Economic Inequality, 2003, Vol 9, 265-289 (with S. Chatterjee and N. Podder)
  • "The Trend of Welfare Disparity Among Subgroups of Population in Australia 1983-84 - 1993-94", Applied Economics, 2002, Volume 14, 1733-1741.
  • "Efficiency Criteria and the Sen-Type Social Welfare Function", Indian Economic Journal, April-June 2001-2002.
  • "A Method to Analyse Trends in Inequality by Subgroup Decomposition", Asia Africa Journal of Economics and Econometrics, June 2002, Volume 2 no: 1: 58-66.
  • "Income Inequality", in Singapore Economy in 21st Century: Issues and Strategies, (ed.) A. T. Koh, K. L. Lim, W.T. Hui, V. V. B. Rao and M. K. Chng, McGraw-Hill, 2002, 95-111 (jointly with V.V.B. Rao).
  • "Impact of the Economic Crisis on Higher Education in Singapore", in Impact of the Economic Crisis on Higher Education in East Asia: Country Experiences, (ed.) N.V. Varghese, International Institute of Educational Planning, UNESCO: Paris, 2002, 157-181 (jointly with G. Shantakumar).
  • Book Review: "Handbook of Development Policy and Management", Singapore Economic Review, Vol 47, No 1, 2002, 183-87.
  • "The Gini Coefficient - A Note", The Indian Economic Journal, April-June, 2001. Vol. 48, No: 4: 65-67 (jointly with VV Rao).
  • "Distribution of Income and Expansion of Education in Some East Asian Countries", Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, Vol 12, No 4, 2001, 327-357.
  • "The Miracle of Low Income Inequality: Taiwan, 1976-97", Journal of Income Distribution, 2001, volume 10, number 1-2, 95-101 (jointly with V V B Rao).
  • "Changing Labour Force Gender Composition and Male-Female Income Disparity in Singapore", Journal of Asian Economics, Vol 12, No 4, 2001, 547-68.
  • "The Changing Pattern of Sources of Income and its Impact on Inequality: The Method and its Application in Australia, 1975-1994", Economic Record, September, Vol 77, No 238, 2001, 242-251 (jointly with N. Podder).
  • "Unfashionable Economics Selected Contributions of Amartya K. Sen: 1998 Economics Nobel Laureate", New Zealand Economic Papers, Vol 34, No. 1, June 2000, 25-52. (jointly with S. Chatterjee)
  • "Estimation and Decomposition of Social Welfare Function by Population Subgroup", Advances in Econometrics, Vol 8, 1999, 87-102. (jointly with N. Podder)
  • Book Review: "Linkages between Government Spending, Growth and Poverty in Rural India", Singapore Economic Review, Vol 45, No. 1, April 2000, 95-98.
  • "Inequality, Poverty and Prof. Amartya Sen, Productivity, April-June, 2000, Vol 41, No. 1: 130-141.
  • "Poverty Alleviation: Some Policy Recommendation", Productivity, Oct-Dec, 1997, Vol 38, No. 3: 336-350.
  • "Do Poverty Alleviation Policies Matter for Rural India?", Development Bulletin, July, 1997, Vol. 42: 8-11.
  • "Rural Poverty in India -- Time Trend, States' Share and Policy Implications", Productivity, April - June, Vol 35, No. 1, 1994, 148-156.
  • "Population, Poverty and Employment in India", Economic and Political Weekly, April 17, 1993, 775-776.

Conference and workshop Papers

  • "Position of Older Women: Issues and Policy Challenges in Asian Context", Singapore Economic Association Conference, Singapore, August, 2005.
  • "Severance Pay in India and Sri Lanka", presented at the International Conference of Regulation and Deregulation of Labour Market. Singapore, March 2004.
  • "Severance Pay in Selected Asian Countries: A Survey", presented at the International Workshop on Severance Pay Reform: Towards Unemployment Savings and Retirement Accounts. Laxenberg/Vienna, November 7-8, 2003.
  • "Changes in Social Welfare in Singapore", presented at 32nd Conference of Economists. Manning Clark Centre, Canberra, Australia. 29 September-1 October, 2003.
  • "Taxation for environmental efficiency and issues of income distribution", National University of Singapore and University of Tokyo Joint Workshop, to be presented at National University of Singapore, 26-27 November, 2002 (jointly with Dodo Thampapillai).
  • "Generalized Social Welfare Function and its Disaggregation", The Conference on Welfare and Labour Market in EU, Marseille, France, October 25-26, 2002.
  • "Financial Crisis in Southeast Asia and its effects on the Social Sectors", International Conference of Economic Recovery and Reform, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 28-29 October, 2002
  • "Crisis, Social Sector and Income Distribution in some SE Asian Countries", Second workshop on Institutional Change in Southeast Asia in the Wake of Asian Crisis organized by Stockholm School of Economics and Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, 10-11 June 2002, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
  • "Did Economic Crisis affect Higher Education in Singapore", in the joint workshop organized by University of Nottingham, UK and Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, 4-5 April 2002, National University of Singapore.
  • "Crisis, Social Sector and Income Distribution in some SE Asian Countries", First workshop on Institutional Change in Southeast Asia in the Wake of Asian Crisis organized by Stockholm School of Economics and Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, 23-24 November, 2001, National University of Singapore.
  • "Social Welfare Function: A Non-Paretian Form and its Disaggregation", 16th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, August 29 - September 1, 2001, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • "A Generalized Social Evaluation Function and its Disaggregation by Components of Income: The Method and Application", Far Eastern Econometric Conference, July 20-22, 2001, Kobe, Japan.
  • "Economic Crisis and Higher Education in Singapore", UNESCO Policy Forum on Economic Crisis and Higher Education in East Asia, 29-31 January, 2001, Malaysia (with G Shantakumar).
  • "An Investigation of Regional Welfare Disparity in Australia using a Generalised Social Welfare Function", Southern Economic Association Conference, Washington DC, November 12-14, 2000.
  • "Income Gap and Educational Opportunity in Some South East Asian Countries: Government Efforts in Bridging Inequality", Eighth Malaysia Singapore Forum, University of Malaysia, 19-21 October, 2000.
  • "The Trend of Welfare Disparity among Age Groups in Australia", Melbourne University and National University of Singapore Joint Symposium, Melbourne University, June 8, 2000.
  • "A Non-Paretian Social Evaluation Function and its Disaggregation by Subgroups of Population", Auckland Institute of Technology Business School Seminar Series, New Zealand, May 21, 1999.
  • "Social Evaluation Function: A Non-Paretian Form and its Disaggregation", Massey University Applied Economic Research Seminar Series, Palmerston North, New Zealand, February 2, 1999.
  • "An Overview of Australian Property and Construction Industry", Asia Construct Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 14-15 October, 1998 (with Deepak Bajaj and Dennis Lenard).
  • "Social Evaluation Functions: Some Alternative Forms", 25th Conference of Economists, Canberra, Australia, 23-25 September, 1996.
  • "Welfare Disparity among Subgroups of Population in Australia", 24th Conference of Economists, Adelaide, Australia, 25-27 September, 1995 (with N. Podder).