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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; green innovation, 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 Samanta D., Nayak N. C. Development in Practice 25 71-85 (2015)
Economic Freedom and Economic Growth in India: What is the Empirical Relationship? by Pattanaik F., Nayak N. C. Economic Change and Restructuring 47 275-298 (2014)
Understanding the role of participation in public service delivery: Evidences from rural West Bengal by Nayak N. C., Samanta D. International Journal of Public Administration 37 875-884 (2014)
Trends and Forecasting of Employment Intensity of Growth in India by Pattanaik F., Nayak N. C. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 18 438-459 (2013)
Underlying Causes of Forest Cover Change in Odisha, India by Basu A., Nayak N. C. Forest Policy and Economics 13 563-569 (2011)
A Development Delivery Institution for the Tribal Communities: Experience of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India by Behera B., Mishra P. , Nayak N. C. Development Policy Review 28 457-479 (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)
Determinants of Individual Giving Behavior in Urban India by Sen A., Chatterjee R. S., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Online 1-25 (2017)
Factors affecting the choice of health care utilization between private and public health services among the elderly population in India by Chatterjee C., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. , Chatterjee S. C. The International Journal of Health, Planning and Management 34 e736-e751 (2019)
What Determines Labour Force Participation in MGNREGA? An Investigation in Odisha by Nayak N. C., Mishra P. , Behera B. S., Chatterjee R. S. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 61 493-514 (2018)
Evaluating Effectiveness of the Channels of Financial Inclusion: A Study of Rural Odisha Indian Council of Social Science Research
Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) of Talcher Coalfields, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), CI, GoI Mahanadi Coalfields Limited
Chandrima Chatterjee
Area of Research: Health Economics and Development Policy
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
Ruby Choudhary
Area of Research: Development Economics
Akankshya Samal
Area of Research: Financial Inclusion
