Faculty Profile

Research & Publications

• Published paper, Bara Aman Appolinus, (2017),“ Domino effect of free trade
  agreements in Asia and its impact on the goods traded in food and agriculture
  sector ” in a book “Indian Agriculture under Multilateral and Regional Trade
  Agreements” published by Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Centre for WTO
  Studies, New Delhi. Blackwell Publication. ISBN: 978-93-86578-05-1.
• Published paper, Bara Aman Appolinus and Bidisha Chakraborty, (2019), “Is
  Public-Private Partnership an Optimal Mode of Provision of Infrastructure?”,
  Journal of Economic Development, Volume 44, Number 1. ISSN 0254-8372.

Papers Presented

• Competition and Competitiveness in Indian Industries after two decades of Economic
  Reforms, U.G.C. Sponsored National Level Seminar, Women’s Christian College,
  Kolkata. Presented paper titled “Impacts of competition on the performance and growth
  of major Indian industries after two decades of economic reforms”, on 02.04.2012.
• 4th International Conference on WTO, Trade and Agriculture: Issues and Challenges
  for Developing and Least Developed Countries, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
  (IIFT), New Delhi, 29.10.2015 – 30.10.2015. Presented paper titled “Domino effect of
  free trade agreements in Asia and its impact on the goods traded in food and agriculture
  sector”.
• Development Economics Conference 2017, Lincoln International Business School,
  University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom. From 08.06.2017-09.06.2017. Paper
  presented “Growth Maximizing Policies in a debt financing Public-Private Partnership
  Provision of Infrastructure” (from Ph.D. thesis).
• International Symposium on Frontiers of Infrastructure Finance, 2017, Vinod Gupta
  school of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur dated 14.12.2017 –
  15.12.2017. Presented paper titled “Is Public private partnership an optimal mode of
  provision of infrastructure?” (from Ph.D thesis).
• 8th PhD Conference on International Development, 2019, Institute of Development
  Studies, Brighton, BN19RE, University of Sussex, the United Kingdom dated
  19.09.2019 – 20.09.2019. Presented paper titled “Why should government provide
  infrastructure through the Public-Private Partnership mode?” (from Ph.D thesis).
• 18th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics and Finance, 2019, Indira Gandhi Institute
  of Development Research, Mumbai, dated 16.12.2019 – 17.12.2019. Presented paper
  titled “Why should government provide infrastructure through the Public-Private
  Partnership mode?” (from Ph.D thesis).

Academic Projects

• An investigation into the Maternal deaths in the districts of Tamil Nadu under the
  supervision of Professor T. Lakshamanaswamy, Madras University, Chennai, India;
  Duration: May, 2009 – June, 2009.
• The Technical Efficiency of Commercial banks in India: A Stochastic Frontier
  Analysis’ under the supervision of Professor P.Duraisamy, University of Madras,
  Chepak Campus, Chennai, India; Duration: November, 2009 – April, 2010.

Topic of the PhD Thesis

• “Evaluation of Public Private Partnership for Infrastructure Provision’’ under the supervision
  of Professor Bidisha Chakraborty, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Topic of the MPhil Dissertation

• ‘Contagion Effect of Free Trade Agreements in Asia: A Reasonable Explanation of Domino
  Theory’ under the supervision of Professor Siddhartha Mitra, Jadavpur University, Kolkata,
  India.

Participation in Workshops & Webinars

• Participated in “Training programme on Big Data Analytics (use of R software)” during
  period 22.06.2015-08.07.2015 conducted by National Institute of Electronics and
  Information Technology (NIELIT), Kolkata.
• Participated in the “Methodology Program for Research Scholars” from period
  14.03.2016- 19.03.2016 conducted by University Grant Commission, Human Resource
  Development Centre (HRDC) at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
• Participated in “International Workshop on Computable General Equilibrium Model”
  from period 09.01.2017-11.01.2017 organized by Department of Economics, Jadavpur
  University, Kolkata.
• Participated in “Workshop on Spatial Econometrics” from period 27.03.2017-
  29.03.2017 conducted by Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Economics,
  Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
• Participated in “Workshop on Spatial Econometrics” from period 08.01.2018-
  16.01.2018 conducted by Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
  at Lecture Hall, S.N. Bose Building.
• Web lecture on “The pandemic and the changing structure of the world economy:
  India’s big opportunity and big risk” delivered by Professor Kaushik Basu, jointly
  organized by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) and Indian Society of Labour
  Economics (ISLE) on 27th July 2020.
• SPSS lockdown session organized by Team Trinetrix Technologies Private Limited and
  SPSS, 2F, 9 Mayfair Road, Kolkata-700019, from May 1, 2020 – May 8, 2020.
• Webinar on “Economic reforms for a prosperous India” delivered by Professor Arvind
  Panagariya and organized by Foundation for Economic Growth and Welfare (EGROW)
  held on 24th June, 2022.