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Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences
My major research interests inlcude Development and Macro Economics with special focus on 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, and MGNREGA processes, procedures, convergence and impact assessment. In pursuance of furthering my research in issues of contemporary relevance, currently, I am carrying out research on economics of generosity, cost of dying, risk assessment of natural hazards in coastal areas, and assessment of food subsity scheme in Indian context. Besides, I am also working on intra-regional income disparities, and financial inclusion with special focus on default and mission drift in microfinance. In addition to providing resaerch guidance to the students on these issues, I have collaborated with various national and international agencies including UNDP, ICAR, ICSSR, 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
Assessment of the Convergence Activities Under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA in Odisha National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj
Old age Homes in Varanasi: Exploring the Holistic Wellbeing of the Elderly and Financing Towards Developing a Sustainable and Integrated Model Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University
Reconfiguring DANA (generosity) as a new institutional financial mechanism for social enterprises MHRD
To Improve End-of-Life Care by Reconfiguring Old Age Homes (OAHs) in Varanasi Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University
IIT KGP and IIT BHU Joint Project: Micro/Pilot Projects MHRD
Sustainable food security through: Technological interventions for production, processing and logistics MHRD
A Creative economic & urban design based pilot project of Kumartuli area, Kolkata ( in association with Kolkata museum of modern arts) MHRD
Improving End-of-Life Care (EoLC) for the elderly by integrating Indic perspectives on ageing and dying MHRD
Historical evidence, myth and geophysical modeling to assess the tectonil movement and risks associated with Odisha coastal "Heritage" belt MHRD
Architectural - Archaeological - Iconographic & Epigraphic exploration of : Lalitagiri - Vajragiri - Puspagiri, Odhisha MHRD
SANDHI, Science -Technology & Culture - Heritage Interface by IIT Kharagpur MHRD
Sunil Sangwan
Area of Research: Financial Economics
Jyotirmayee Satapathy
Area of Research: Food Security
Chandrima Chatterjee
Area of Research: Cost of Dying
Aditi Sen
Area of Research: Generosity Behaviour
Sweta Sen
Area of Research: Economics of Coastal Hazards
Nirupam Mukhopadhyay
Area of Research: Industrial Economics
