I am a senior consultant economist with the World Bank, currently based in India. In particular, I work in the areas of innovation and the digital economy, service delivery, jobs and growth, labor markets, job creation, health workforce (female labor force participation, health workforce performance and incentives, identifying distributional gaps, task shifting, identifying competencies, dual practice, rights at work, gaps in curriculum, financial incentives for health providers, provider payment to health workers, labor migration, measuring and predicting needs and demands, school-to-work transitions, understanding preferences for jobs, roles and locations and public and private mix composition), long-term effects of shocks to employment, ​governance and finance, regulations, price setting in health services, retirement decisions, fiscal space analysis, minimum wage determination, wage bill analysis, rate of return to education, health financing, care economy, social protection, cash transfers, social registries, gender responsive budgeting, organization development and organizational behavior. 

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Fields of Interest: Financial Economics, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Human Development, Innovation Economics, Public Sector Management and Governance, and Urban Economics

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Research Influences: Milton Friedman, Daniel Kahneman, Richard Thaler, James M. Buchanan, Paul Collier, Robert Shiller, Olivier Blanchard, Timothy Besley, Anat R. Admati, Kenneth J. Arrow, Vernon L. Smith, Daron Acemoglu, Robert C. Merton, Edward Glaeser, Andrew W. Lo, Lee Buchheit, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Stanley Fischer, Peter Wilkinson Howitt, Gary Stanley Becker, Paul Michael Romer, Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Peter W.B. Phillips and Geoffrey T. Parks

 

Public Service Influences: Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Mark Carney, Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, Manmohan Singh, Chakravarthi Rangarajan, Duvvuri Subbarao, Rakesh Mohan, Mario Draghi, Venkatraman Anantha Nageswaran, Mervyn Allister King and Nigel A. L. Clarke​