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Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences
My major research interests include Development and Macro Economics with special focus on the Indian Economy. So far I have worked on issues like employment intensity of growth, infrastructure and human development, infrastructure and agricultural productivity, participation and public service delivery, forest sustainabilty and drivers of forest loss, payments for enviornmental services, socioeconomic and cultural aspects of Ganga River basin, transition rates of education, issues and determinants of FDI, regional inequalities and convergence measures, MFI, mission drift and repayment risks, health finnacing and healthcare choices among the elderly, cost of dying, giving behaviour and economics of generosity, risk assessment of coastal hazards, assessment of food subisdy scheme in the Indian context and MGNREGA processes, procedures, convergence, distress migration and impact assessment. In pursuance of furthering my research in issues of contemporary relevance, currently, I am carrying out research on MGNREGA and distress migration, and financial inclusion. Besides, I am supervising students on a wide variety of issues including economics of cyclone: forecasting, measuring welfare loss and identifying coping and adaptation strategies; e-innovation and growth and firm performance; food security and household welfare; costing, financing and choices of elderly healthcare; MGNREGA and migration; personal finances and their determinants; etc. In addition to providing research guidance to the students, I have collaborated with various national and international agencies including UNDP, ICAR, ICSSR, Government of Odisha, Ministries of Rural Developemnt, Environment and Forests and HRD, New Delhi.
Determinants of people's participation: a study of rural West Bengal, India by Debabrata Samanta & Narayan Chandra Nayak Development in Practice 25(1), Routledge 71-85 (2015)
Economic Freedom and Economic Growth in India: What is the Empirical Relationship? by Falguni Pattanaik, Narayan Chandra Nayak Economic Change and Restructuring 47(4), Springer 275-298 (2014)
Understanding the role of participation in public service delivery: Evidences from rural West Bengal by Narayan Chandra Nayak, Debabrata Samanta International Journal of Public Administration 37(12), Routledge 875-884 (2014)
Trends and Forecasting of Employment Intensity of Growth in India by Falguni Pattanaik, Narayan Chandra Nayak Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 18(3), Routledge 438-459 (2013)
Underlying Causes of Forest Cover Change in Odisha, India by Amrita Basu, Narayan Chandra Nayak Forest Policy and Economics 13(7), Elsevier 563-569 (2011)
Development Delivery Institution for the Tribal Communities: Experience of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India by Pulak Mishra, Bhagirath Behera, Narayan Chandra Nayak Development Policy Review 28(4), Wiley 457-479 (2010)
Foreign Direct Investment in India: Emerging Horizon by Vani Archana, N C Nayak, B Basu Indian Economic Review 42(2), Delhi School of Economics 255-266 (2007)
Does Infrastructure affect Human Development? Evidences from Odisha by Amar Kumar Mohanty, Narayan Chandra Nayak, Bani Chatterjee Journal of Infrastructure Development 8(1), Sage Publications 1-26 (2016)
An Analysis of Hierarchical Distribution of Education in India by Sharmita Dhar, Narayan Chandra Nayak, Bani Chatterjee Journal of the Indian School of Political Economy 22(1-4) 97-126 (2010)
Macroeconomic Determinants of Employment Intensity of Growth in India by Falguni Pattanaik, Narayan Chandra Nayak Margin The Journal of Applied Economic Research 8(2), Sage Publications 137-154 (2014)
Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, Distress Migration and Skill Development : An Assessment in Odisha INDIAN COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
Jyotirmayee Satapathy
Area of Research: Food Security
Chandrima Chatterjee
Area of Research: Cost of Dying
Aditi Sen
Area of Research: Behavioural Finance
Sweta Sen
Area of Research: Economics of Coastal Hazards
Nirupam Mukhopadhyay
Area of Research: Industrial Economics
Alok Ranjan Mohanty
Area of Research: Development Economics
Sandeep Kumar
Area of Research: Development Economics
